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As one of the world’s leading teaching hospitals for wildlife medicine, the Wildlife Center of Virginia has a core mission to teach the world to care about and care for wildlife and the environment. This news page collects stories of the Center’s expertise in action.


May 10, 2011
Packages are arriving at the Center regularly ... and they're not all for the eaglets!  The staff have started to receive some care packages as well. Tuesday, May 10 A package of chocolate-covered strawberries arrived this morning!  Each staff member in the building today received one ... and a couple were refrigerated for those who are working from home today.  Not many made it into the fridge!
May 10, 2011

The first results from the education raptor DNA gender analysis are in!  Several weeks ago, blood was drawn from eight of our non-releasable education birds for DNA analysis to determine their sex.  WCV volunteer Vince Formica, a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Virginia, is working with colleagues Dr. Elaina Tuttle and Marisa Korody at the Molecular Ecology Laboratory at Indiana State University.

May 5, 2011

Mail came from kids around the world who knew of the Norfolk Botanical Garden eaglets and their situation.  Thanks for your thoughtful notes to the eaglets!

May 4, 2011

A flurry of severe thunderstorms in the Shenandoah Valley, many accompanied with wind gusts reportedly approaching 70 mph, caused damage to a newly renovated flight cage in early May.  The limb of a tree outside the enclosure apparently damaged the specialized fabric used for the walls of the 85-foot-long enclosure, which was specifically designed as an exercise space for large raptors, such as eagles and hawks.   There was only one bird in the cage at the time, an adult Bald Eagle, #11-0207, that was admitted to the Center in late March with puncture wounds.  Taking advantage of the tear i

April 27, 2011

Statement of Ed Clark President and Co-Founder of the Wildlife Center of Virginia on the Third Birthday of Buddy the Bald Eagle Wednesday, April 27, 2011 Three years ago today, thousands of online eagle watchers rejoiced because an eagle chick hatched at the Norfolk Botanical Garden.  That little gray ball of fuzz is now a permanent resident of the Wildlife Center of Virginia and is known far and wide as Buddy.

April 27, 2011

Wildlife Center of Virginia to raise eaglets to be released back into the wild

April 25, 2011

Meet Grayson, the newest education hawk at the Wildlife Center of Virginia!

Some "what's new" followers may remember our "new hawk on the block" post from September 2010, when Grayson [then known as Broad-winged Hawk #10-1371] moved into the education area at the Wildlife Center. 

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