Washington Administrative Code › Title 220 - Fish and Wildlife, Department of › WILDLIFE › Chapter 220-450 - Wildlife in captivity and wildlife rehabilitation › Section 220-450-060 - Definitions- Wildlife rehabilitation permits

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
For the purposes of WAC
				  220-450-070
				  through
				  220-450-220,
				  the following definitions apply:
(1)
				"Alcid" means a bird of the family Alcidae. The alcid family includes murres,
				guillemots, auklets, puffins, and murrelets.
(2) "Daily ledger" means a record, kept
				current daily and available for inspection, documenting all wildlife
				admissions, transfers, releases, and deaths; reason for admission; case number,
				date of admission; date of release, transfer, euthanasia, or other type of
				disposition; any tag or band numbers.
(3) "Director" means the director of the
				department of fish and wildlife or his or her designee.
(4) "Education animal" means a permanently
				injured or otherwise nonreleasable wildlife permitted to be kept in permanent
				confinement on public static display or used in educational programs.
(5) "Euthanasia" means compassionate killing
				with a minimum of pain and distress, in a timely manner, and safely to prevent
				disease transmission, public health or human safety risks, or prolonged or
				unrelenting animal suffering due to illness, injury, unremitting
				pain.
(6) "Foster" means to serve
				as a conspecific surrogate parent or conspecific companion to wildlife in
				rehabilitation.
(7) "Habituate"
				means an animal stops responding to frequently occurring stimuli (like noises,
				sights or smells) because no negative consequences occur; it may be temporary
				and reversible or behavior may become ingrained (i.e., taming) and prevent
				return to the wild. See "Tame."
(8)
				"Hacking" means to transition a young raptor using temporary release to the
				wild and allowing it to return for food and shelter while learning to hunt and
				survive on its own.
(9) "Humane"
				means providing care such as water, food, safe handling, clean facilities,
				medical treatment, and euthanasia if needed, and conditions including
				environments sensitive to species-typical biology and behavior, with the intent
				to minimize fear, pain, stress, and suffering.
(10) "Imping" means a method of replacing a
				broken feather with an undamaged feather.
(11) "Imprinting" means a period of rapid
				learning occurring during a brief critical period typically soon after birth or
				hatching that establishes a strong and long-lasting attachment to a specific
				individual or object, such as to a parent where the animal becomes socially,
				and later sexually, bonded to that object or creature, identifying itself
				irreversibly as the species it imprints upon.
(12) "Mal-imprinting" means imprinting on a
				species not its own, preventing the animal's return to the wild.
(13) "Nonreleasable" means wildlife that
				cannot be released with a reasonable potential for survival in the wild due to
				physical or psychological impairment, such as the inability to express
				species-specific appropriate behavior, including the ability to hunt or forage,
				recognize threats; or is tamed or mal-imprinted.
(14) "Oil" means oil of any kind and any
				form, such as petroleum and nonpetroleum oils including, but not limited to,
				crude oil and refined petroleum products, animal fats and vegetable oil, other
				oils of animal or vegetable origin, and other nonpetroleum oils.
(15) "Oiled wildlife rehabilitation" is a
				specialized form of wildlife rehabilitation and means the process of caring for
				oiled wildlife during intake, stabilization, washing and rinsing, and drying,
				to allow the wildlife to return to their natural habitat.
(16) "Oiled wildlife rehabilitation facility"
				is a specifically permitted type or portion of a wildlife rehabilitation
				facility used for the rehabilitation of oiled wildlife.
(17) "Orphan-imprinting" means to use
				conspecific wildlife for the purpose of feeding, socializing, and teaching
				appropriate wild behavior to young wildlife.
(18) "Patient record" means a record, kept
				current daily and available for inspection, documenting each wildlife animal's
				species, age and sex; daily care including feeding, watering, and cleaning;
				medical care; and veterinary notes regarding treatment and health of wildlife
				in the permittee's care.
(19)
				"Primary permittee" means the person listed on the wildlife rehabilitation
				permit who applies for and receives a wildlife rehabilitation permit and is
				responsible for monitoring and approving any subpermittee's conduct and
				practices; also, "wildlife rehabilitator."
(20) "Principal veterinarian" means a
				licensed veterinarian who agrees, in writing, to provide and direct, timely,
				appropriate veterinary medicine in conjunction with wildlife rehabilitation
				services and activities.
(21)
				"Public display" means to place or locate wildlife so that they may be viewed
				by the public.
(22) "Record" means
				the wildlife rehabilitation permit(s) associated with a particular facility and
				permit-tee(s); daily ledger; patient records; and annual wildlife
				rehabilitation reports.
(23)
				"Stabilize for transport" means life-threatening injuries are addressed
				including patient airway is clear, patient is hydrated, hemorrhage is
				controlled, shock is treated, and broken bones are immobilized.
(24) "Subpermittee" means person or persons
				listed on the primary permittee's wildlife rehabilitation permit who care for
				wildlife either at the facility as the primary caretaker in the primary
				permittee's temporary absence or at an off-site facility with the permission
				and under the direction of the primary permittee.
(25) "Tame" means an animal, such as
				wildlife, purposefully seeks out human company and social interaction, care, or
				attention, does not reject human handling, and learns to not fear humans, all
				of which prevents the animal's return to the wild.
(26) "Veterinarian" means a licensed
				veterinarian.
(27) "Veterinary
				summaries" means those findings, treatments, and directives written by a
				veterinarian in summary form and submitted to the wildlife rehabilitation
				facility.
(28) "Wildlife
				rehabilitation" means the care and treatment of injured, diseased, oiled, or
				orphaned wildlife including, but not limited to, capturing, transporting,
				treating, feeding, housing, and conditioning animals so they can be released
				back to the wild.
(29) "Wildlife
				rehabilitation facility," or "facility," means the authorized site(s), as shown
				on the wildlife rehabilitation permit, where treatment and rehabilitation of
				wildlife takes place.
(30)
				"Wildlife rehabilitation permit" means a permit issued by the director that
				authorizes a person to practice wildlife rehabilitation.
(31) "Wildlife rehabilitator" means a person
				who conducts wildlife rehabilitation and possesses a current wildlife
				rehabilitation permit from the department.