Answering the call of the wild : a hotline operator's guide to helping people and wildlife /
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada :
Toronto Wildlife Center,
[2010]
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Table of Contents:
- Hotline basics
- Locating help for an animal in need
- Sick and injured animals
- Orphaned animals
- Methods of wildlife capture
- Distressed or trapped animals
- Conflict situations
- Wildlife and pets
- Public health and safety
- Wild and domestic animal identification
- Loons and grebes
- Swans, geese, and ducks
- Cormorants
- Gulls and terns
- Herons, bitterns, and egrets
- Shorebirds - killdeer, plovers, woodcocks, snipes, sandpipers and phalaropes
- Marsh birds - rails, coots and moorhens
- Fowl-like birds - turkeys, grouse, pheasants and partridges
- Birds of prey (raptors) - hawks, eagles, owls and falcons
- Vultures
- Pigeons and doves
- Cuckoos
- Nightjars
- Hummingbirds
- Kingfishers
- Swifts
- Woodpeckers
- Passerines (songbirds) - crows, starlings, robins, jays, cardinals, sparrows, finches, grackles and others
- Bats
- Bears
- Beavers
- Bobcats and lynx
- Chipmunks
- Coyotes and foxes
- Deer
- Woodchucks (groundhogs)
- Mice, rats, voles, and lemmings
- Moles and shrews
- Muskrats
- Opossums
- Porcupines
- Rabbits and hares
- Raccoons
- Tree squirrels
- Skunks
- Weasels, minks, martens and fishers
- Snakes
- Turtles
- Salamanders and lizards
- Toads and frogs
- Bees and wasps
- Appendix 1: examples of hotline calls
- Appendix 2: baby identification tables
- Appendix 3: photographs
- Appendix 4: quick reference guides for call response
- Appendix 5: forms
- Appendix 6: public education literature
- Appendix 7: credits