Blogs from the Field
A healthy future for wildlife, people, and planet.
March 02, 2026
by
Victoria Priester
The phone rings. There are 3,500 shorebirds suspected to be affected by the crude oil spill. This was a fictional but realistic scenario I faced on my first day at the 2025 Wildlife Disease Association Conference in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada....
February 20, 2026
This past summer, I traveled to Australia to serve as a veterinary student extern at the Taronga Wildlife Hospital located in Taronga Zoo Sydney....
February 03, 2026
As a young girl, I was captivated by the majestic animals and wild landscapes I saw on television—so different from the concrete jungle that surrounded me. They seemed magical, distant, and almost unreachable from my urban home in Queens, New York....
January 13, 2026
On the first day of my externship with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, I shook hands with Dr. Julia Burco, a state wildlife veterinarian, and I felt an overwhelming sense of gratitude and fulfillment....
November 24, 2025
Veterinary medicine offers a wide range of career paths and options, and one of the most interesting and often overlooked is that of a state wildlife veterinarian....