Avian egg incubation workshop
Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, Jersey, UK
1st - 4th December 2010
What will be covered on the workshop?
This is an intensive, practical workshop which will cover the following topics:
• Embryo and membrane development
• Factors affecting hatchability before and during incubation
• Hatchery management techniques (including equipment selection and operation, egg weight loss management and hatchability analysis)
• Artificial incubation and its role in field conservation programmes
Participants will break out embryos at all stages of development (older embryos are euthanized first) and gain first-hand experience of candling techniques, egg repair, hatching assistance and egg necropsy
Who is running the workshop?
Susie Kasielke (Los Angeles Zoo) and Pat Witman (San Diego Zoo) will be leading the workshop with additional lecturing support from Durrell’s International Training Centre, Bird Department and Prof. Carl Jones, MBE , Scientific Director, Mauritius Wildlife Foundation.
Susie has been working with birds at the Los Angeles Zoo for over 30 years and has been Curator of Birds there since 2001. Through her involvement with the California Condor Recovery Program, she worked with the staff at Los Angeles and other facilities to develop and refine propagation, incubation and rearing methods for condors and other species. She has been teaching workshops on avian egg incubation for zoo
groups in North America for 18 years.
Pat has been working for San Diego Zoo for almost 30 years with 20 of those years being involved with artificial incubation and hand rearing at the Zoo’s Avian Popagation Center (APC). The APC has hatched almost 300 avian species, including the first California Condor. Pat joined forces with Susie Kasielke two years ago to combine their knowledge into the actual workshop format.
How much will it cost
Course (including lunches and coffee): £450
On-site accommodation (full-board, 4 nights): £170
For further information please contact
or call +44 (0)1534 860037
an international charity saving species from extinction
durrell.org
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