The January 15 zoom program for Redbud Audubon will feature a program on wildlife rehabilitation, presented by Rachel Avilla who is a wildlife rehabilitator with over 20 years of experience and a degree in Environmental Science. The program will start at 7 p.m. Please register by either clicking on the registration link on the homepage.
Avilla’s program will focus on her work with the Wild Neighbors Database Project (WNDP), and what their information can tell us about bird populations. She will share some of her general rehabilitation experience in California and will have a PowerPoint presentation to accompany her talk that shows her work with wildlife rehabilitation, especially with parrots.
Avilla has worked and volunteered globally in wildlife rehabilitation and nonprofit management, and has collaborated with partners including UC Davis, University of Pennsylvania, NOAA, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, and wildlife agencies in California, Washington, Arizona, Florida, and Pennsylvania. She served on the board of directors for the California Council for Wildlife Rehabilitators for six years, including five years as President.
She is the Executive Director and co-founder of the Wild Neighbors Database Project (WNDP) and the Operations and Outreach Coordinator for the Clear Lake Environmental Research Center (CLERC). Grounded in hands-on wildlife rehabilitation, her work focuses on improving care outcomes and using tools such as the Wildlife Rehabilitation Medical Database (WRMD) and Wild Alert to translate rehabilitation data into actionable wildlife health monitoring and environmental decision-making.
