Internships and Externships
Minimum Age to apply: 18
Time Commitment: Minimum 24 hours per week for 12 weeks.
This Wildlife Rehabilitation Internship offers hands-on experience supporting rehabilitators in the daily care of injured, orphaned, and ill wildlife. Interns will develop skills in species identification and natural history, proper husbandry practices, safe animal handling, appropriate feeding for mammals, reptiles, and birds, medication administration, and basic enclosure maintenance.
Minimum Age to apply: 18
Time Commitment: Minimum 24 hours per week for 12 weeks.
This Wildlife Nursery Internship provides interns with hands-on experience assisting rehabilitators in the daily care of orphaned wildlife. Interns will learn species identification and natural history, proper husbandry practices, safe animal handling, specialized feeding techniques for orphaned mammals and birds, medication administration, and enclosure maintenance.
Minimum Age to apply: 18
Time Commitment: Minimum 24 hours per week for 12 weeks.
This internship is ideal for veterinary technician students seeking wildlife experience, recent vet tech graduates, and wildlife rehabilitators looking to expand their medical knowledge. Interns will work alongside the veterinary team, spending some time with the veterinarian but primarily training with vet assistants. Key learning areas include animal handling, medication administration, patient care, laboratory procedures such as CBCs and fecal exams, and triage of injured, sick, and orphaned wildlife.
Duties: See position description here.
Minimum Age to apply: 18
Time Commitment: Minimum 40 hours per week for 3 weeks.
Now accepting applications for 2026 only. Apply here!
Must be in the final two years of veterinary school or have graduated from a veterinary program within the last year. The focus is to introduce externs to wildlife medicine in a high-volume, fully-functional veterinary hospital and well as exposing externs to the basics of wildlife husbandry and rehabilitation.
Duties: See position description here.
Minimum Age to apply: 18
Time Commitment: Minimum 24 hours per week for 4 weeks.
Now accepting applications for 2025 – Apply here!
This externship is ideal for veterinary technician trainees who desire a rotation in wildlife medicine. The goal is to introduce the extern to the veterinary technician or assistant’s role in wildlife medicine in a high-volume, fully-functional veterinary hospital; as well as expose extern to the basics of wildlife husbandry and rehabilitation.
