University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna

  • Ural owl

    • Project lead: RIchard Zink
    • Vetmeduni Vienna
    • Address: Field office Seebarn: Hauptstraße 68, 3438 Seebarn am Wagram Vetmeduni: Savoyenstraße 1a, 1160 Wien
    • Telephone: 01-25077-7211
    • Topic: Animals
    • Activity: photography, counting, identifying, locating, taking care, observing
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://habichtskauz.at/
    Ural owl resettlementThe resettlement of the Ural owl is led by a team of researchers headed by ornithologist Richard Zink at the Austrian Ornithological Centre at "Vetmeduni" Vienna. The goal is the "Come Back" of the big owl into the forests of Austria. A new occurrence in the alps creates an essential link between the populations south (Slovenia, Italy) and north (Germany, Czech Republic) of the Alpine republic. Individual owls migrating between these populations ensure gene flow...

  • Cowwel

    Several women are cooking together
    • Project lead: Susanne Waiblinger
    • University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
    • Address: Veterinaerplatz 1, 1210 Wien
    • Telephone: 01250774905
    • Topic: Food, Animals, Health, Culture
    • Activity: rating, discussing
    • Participation: Closed participation
    • Project link: https://cowlearning.boku.ac.at/cowwel/
    A OneWelfare approach studying food vulnerability. The project "COwWEL" examines, together with citizen scientists from socio-economically disadvantaged groups, conditions that promote or hinder healthy and sustainable consumption behaviour in these groups, taking into account attitudes toward animals and their welfare. The goal is to develop strategies and information material to promote fairer and more sustainable food systems....

  • Avian malaria

    • Project lead: Herbert Weissenböck
    • Institute of Pathology, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
    • Address: Veterinärplatz 1 1210 Vienna
    • Topic: Animals, Health
    • Activity: counting, observing
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://www.vetmeduni.ac.at/de/pathologie/forschung/fwf-projekte/vogelmalaria/
    Reporting and collecting dead songbirdsYou find a dead songbird in your garden? Your cat brings home a dead bird? If you are in this situation, you can support a current research project of the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna. Avian malariaWithin the framework of the Citizen-Science project "Avian malaria", dead songbirds and woodpeckers from Vienna, Lower Austria, and Burgenland are collected by the Institute of Pathology at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna. The birds...