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April 12, 2022

Dr. Ford Interviewed by Local News Stations Regarding Avian Influenza Outbreak

Dr. Ford was contacted for his thoughts on the current avian influenza outbreak after a bald eagle was found with neurologic symptoms in Milwaukee.

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May 30, 2021

Emperor Geese in Alaska

Here’s a glimpse at what I’ll be doing with emperor geese in western Alaska in June!

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March 11, 2021

Poultry Raising Manual

Posted by Dr. Scott Ford Citation: Cox, Bill, ed. Small Flock Poultry Health. BC Ministry of Agriculture, Abbotsford, BC. 2011. 251 pp. “This manual covers all the elements of poultry […]

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December 4, 2020

Raptor Research Foundation Hosts Virtual Conference

The Raptor Research Foundation is hosting a virtual conference next week. It’s free to members (good excuse to join!) or $20 for non-members. It sounds like they have a good […]

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July 20, 2020

Awarded Adjunct Faculty Position at University of Wisconsin-Madison

Dr. Ford awarded adjunct faculty position at University Wisconsin-Madison School of Vet Med

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June 14, 2020

Picking Up Chicks & Helping a Baby Bald Eagle

By Dr. Scott Ford Yesterday my husband and I went for our first long drive this year to go pick up some chicken chicks from our friend, Foxfeather Zenkova. Although […]

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May 15, 2020

Free Lafeber Webinar About Flight in Pet Birds

LafeberVet will be hosting an online, RACE-Approved seminar for veterinarians and support staff about the ethical and medical concerns regarding flight in companion parrots. Title: Flight Mechanics & Ethical ConcernsInstructor: Todd […]

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May 14, 2020

Teaching/Equipping Local Vets to Treat Wildlife

By Dr. Scott Ford In recent months, I’ve been helping Pine View Wildlife and Best Friends Vet with a few owl cases. It’s been fun and I’m happy to be […]

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February 13, 2020

Cute Informative Video About Bald Eagle Recovery

With great difficulty, bald eagles were ultimately saved from extinction. Watch this fun & informative video about their conservation story.

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December 13, 2019

Dr. Ford Authors New Chapter on Wild Bird Flight Conditioning

Medical Management of Wildlife Species is a new book wherein Dr. Ford has written a chapter on pre-release conditioning of wild birds.

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October 7, 2019

Neil Rettig’s ‘Bird of Prey’ Stirs Action for Rare Philippine Eagles

Neil Rettig’s ‘Bird of Prey’ is a movie that will inspire you to hope and stir you to action. We all have a part we can play in saving the rarest of raptors: the Philippine eagle. These are my personal impressions from the movie, please read, share, & act

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September 6, 2019

An Interesting Owl Case

This week’s unique case involves a great horned owl with a chronic wing fracture, rescued by Pine View.

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August 29, 2019

80 Trackers Implanted in Mallards in the Dakotas

It was a long trip but it’s successfully completed! After six weeks of traveling around the Dakotas following teams of biologists and technicians, we were able to implant trackers in […]

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August 16, 2019

Raptor Research Foundation Publications

Check out Raptor Research Foundation’s techniques manual and other materials helpful for those working with birds of prey.

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August 13, 2019

Tracking Young Mallards in the Dakotas

Young mallards are being tracked to better determine their unique habitat needs and pressures.

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August 9, 2019

Hawk: Surgery Completed

By Dr. Scott Ford The Dakota Zoo didn’t have a veterinarian available to do the orthopedic surgery that the hawk needed so they brought him back to me. Fortunately we […]

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August 8, 2019

Hawk Update

By Dr. Scott Ford I have great news about the hawk that we rescued yesterday. North Dakota Game & Fish was very helpful in hooking me up with the Dakota […]

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August 7, 2019

Rescued Red-tailed Hawk

By Dr. Scott Ford I’m still doing duck work in North Dakota but today took an interesting turn. My assistant, Alex Carrillo, found a family of red-tailed hawks alongside the […]

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August 6, 2019

Welcome to the New Wildlife Site for Dr. Scott Ford

Have you looked at my old site (avian-vet.com) lately? Yeah, it looks old, doesn’t it? And barely used. Well welcome to one of two new websites I’ve been working on […]

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April 30, 2019

Tracking Scoters from Yakutat, Alaska

By Dr. Scott Ford In April of this year I had the pleasure of dropping into the small Alaska town of Yakutat to assist Alaska Department of Fish and Game. […]

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