Additional Information Provided by Dr. Dave McRuer, Director of Veterinary Medicine
Eagle #09-2530
News
January 12, 2010
The Wildlife Center of Virginia, an internationally acclaimed teaching and research hospital for wildlife and conservation medicine located in Waynesboro, admitted a total of 2,534 animals for treatment during 2009 – injured, ailing, and orphaned wildlife from all across Virginia.
The 2009 caseload was the highest number of patients treated at the Center since 2004.
As expected, the 2009 total included many common species – 280 Eastern Cottontail Rabbits; 252 Virginia Opossums; 210 Eastern Gray Squirrels; and 107 American Robins.
December 17, 2009
The Wildlife Center of Virginia, the nation’s leading teaching and research hospital for native wildlife, will release a Peregrine Falcon on Tuesday, December 22 at 1 p.m. at the Grandview Nature Preserve in Hampton. The falcon will be released by Ed Clark, President and Co-Founder of the Wildlife Center. [Links to video and photographs of the release are posted below].
December 1, 2009
The Wildlife Center of Virginia, the nation’s leading teaching and research hospital for native wildlife, has admitted its 37th Bald Eagle of 2009, establishing a new record for eagle patients admitted in the same year. The old record was set in 2007, when the Center admitted 36 Bald Eagles.
October 2, 2009
The Wildlife Center of Virginia, the nation’s leading teaching and research hospital for native wildlife, released a Bald Eagle on Friday, October 2 at 1:00 p.m. at Westover Plantation, on the James River in Charles City County.