Continuing Education Opportunities

Upcoming Classes

• Follow the link for upcoming classes

Continuing Education Credit

Recorded classes may be eligible for Continuing Education Credit

• If you would like to view a recorded class and receive continuing education credit, you may:

  • View the video recording of the class

  • If there is an associated quiz, follow the directions to take the quiz to verify understanding

  • If there is only video and no associated quiz to go along with the lecture

    • Submit 5 questions that may be used for a quiz along with the timestamp for the information on which the questions are based

Oiled Wildlife Care Network (OWCN)

Lindsay Wildlife Experience is a member organization of the OWCN, a statewide collective of trained wildlife care providers, regulatory agencies, academic institutions and wildlife organizations working to rescue and rehabilitate oiled wildlife in California. 

As a volunteer of a member organization, you can sign up to receive training to respond to oil spills. Training is ongoing with opportunities for continuing education. Training for OWCN also counts as Continuing Education for the Lindsay Wildlife requirement.

If you are not already registered in the OWCN responder database, please contact the Wildlife Rehabilitation Volunteer Manager. Once you sign-up, you will be able to see the list of available trainings.

Bird Society Field Trips

• Docent-led field trips offered by local Audubon societies or other recognized birding groups may count as continuing education if there is a trip leader teaching participants

• Links to some local Audubon society field trips:

  • Mt. Diablo Audubon Society Field Trips

  • Golden Gate Bird Alliance Field Trips

  • Ohlone Audubon Society Field Trips

  • Link to a list of Bay Area Chapters of California Audubon Societies

California Department of Fish & Wildlife Conservation Lecture Series

California Department of Fish & Wildlife Conservation Lecture Series qualify for continuing education. Some examples include:

• "Beyond Honey Bees: Exploring Diversity of California's Pollinators"
• Effects of Artificial Light at Night on Wildlife and Strategies to Mitigate Them" - presented by Travis Longcore, PhD (UCLA)
• "Bats in Swallow Nests" - presented by Jill Carpenter - Bat Biologist, (LSA Associates, Inc), Dr. Dave Johnston (H.T. Harvey & ASsociates, and Leila Harris (UC Davis)
• "Western Snowy Plover: the importance of Resilient Landscapes in Species Management and Recovery" - presented by Kriss Neuman (Point Blue Conservation Science)
• Conservation and Management of the California Tiger Salamander

Oregon State University

•  “Can Rehabilitated Raptors Survive Like Their Wild Counterparts? Paradigms tested and lessons learned from 45 years of banding data.” - December 19, 2023

  • John Goodell, Brian Millsap and Guthrie Zimmermann, and Hagen Christian have been working on a scientific study examining survival of rehabilitated and released raptors and comparing their survival to wild counterparts. This investigation is a foundational step in addressing a long standing question, "Does raptor rehabilitation efforts deliver measurable benefits to wild populations and/or could releases of rehabilitated raptors offset or mitigate for individuals lost due to human-caused mortality?"  We assessed these questions and our paper is currently in peer review with a scientific journal, and we anticipate reviews back shortly after the first of the New Year.

  • 49:06 min, not long enough to meet the continuing education requirement by itself but still an interesting talk

Podcasts for Continuing Education

• Follow the link for podcasts about wildlife-related topics that may provide continuing education credit