Raptor Care and Handling

Course curriculum

1. Raptor Species at the Wildlife Center
2. Avian Skeletal Anatomy
1. Rally with the Shift Leader
2. Identify Patients You Need to Care For
3. Prioritize Your Tasks
4. Perform Wellness Check
5. Daily Checklists
1. Feeding Frequency
2. Selecting Meat Type
3. Thawing Meat
4. Portioning Frozen Meat
5. Food Presentation
6. Vitamins
7. Entering a Cage
8. Medications and Feeding
1. Raptor Room
2. Quarantine Rooms or Cages
3. Cleaning, Sanitation, and Hygiene
4. Cage Setup and Cleaning - Indoor Cages
1. Outdoor Flight Cages
2. Outdoor Raptor Feeding
3. Live Prey
4. Setting up a Trail Camera
5. Safety in Outdoor Cages
6. Outdoor Cage Maintenance
7. Solar Flight Pen - Containment Lofts
1. Hatchlings and Nestlings
2. Tweezer Feeding and Force Feeding
1. Weighing a Raptor
2. Steps to Weighing
1. Castings = Pellets
2. Mutes = Bird Feces
3. Feather Care
4. Tail Guards
1. Emaciation
2. Refeeding Syndrome
3. Feeding Thin Birds
4. Crop Stasis
5. Flat Flies - Hippoboscids
6. Bandages
7. Bumble Foot (aka Pododermatitis)
8. Infectious Raptor Diseases
1. High-risk Raptor Quarantine
1. Basic Rules of Raptor Handling
2. Body Grab Method
3. Leg Grab Method
4. Placing a Raptor Back in the Cage
5. Safety Considerations
6. What if you get taloned?
1. Turkey Vultures
2. Bald Eagles
3. Accipiters and other mid-size, high-strung birds
4. Small Raptors
1. Raptor Care
2. Raptor Handling
1. Simple Trainer Checklist
1. Raptor Quiz

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