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What’s For Dinner?
What’s For Dinner At MARS? Raven favours scrambled eggs! BY RAY What’s on the menu for patients at the MARS Wildlife Rescue Centre really depends on what’s available in the wild. Last year for instance, Fisheries and Oceans Canada dropped off a load of herring to our...
A Kestrel’s Cautionary Tale
A Kestrel’s Cautionary Tale Bird listed as climate threatened BY BRIAN American kestrels are usually spotted on high perches or hovering in open landscapes where the hunting is good. Rarely is North America’s smallest falcon found inside a fireplace in a Vancouver...
Fawn Season Imminent
Fawn Alert MARS marks record success rate BY BRIAN It’s spring when Black-Tailed Deer give birth to fawns on Vancouver Island, British Columbia and may appear to be alone and abandoned. But wait a minute. Maybe the mother doe is away foraging for food and...
New Manager of Wildlife Rehabilitation
MARS is pleased to welcome Gylaine Andersen in her new role as Manager of Wildlife Rehabilitation services. She is a Registered Veterinary Technologist and is certified as a Wildlife rehabilitator through the International Wildlife Rehabilitation Council....
Saw Whet Owl
(Photo By Sandy Royer) MARS Moment -2014 Saw Whet Owl by Sandy Fairfield, MARS Education Coordinator This year we have enjoyed an early spring and wonderful summer weather as a result M.A.R.S. was very busy taking care of many injured, orphaned or...
Ashlea Veldhoen (2014)
I am a graduate of the Ecosystem Management Technology program at Fleming College and am currently undertaking a Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Science at Trent University. Despite my broad educational background, my dream has always been...
Here Come the Fawns!
Our local Black Tailed Deer are now giving birth! Should you come across a fawn that you think needs help, please call MARS at 250-337-2021 for advice. Unless the fawn is obviously injured, sick, or there is a dead doe nearby, it should be left...
Trumpeter Swans
Townsend’s Bat
