New York State Licensed Wildlife Rehabilitators and Species

New York State's Department of Environmental Conservation licenses over 100 wildlife rehabilitators, providing public contact details and the specific animal species they are authorized to treat. The dataset includes licensee names, contact information, county locations, and species accepted, sourced from official state records. It is maintained by data.ny.gov and was last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Finding a local rehabilitator for a specific injured animal species using the 'Species Accepted' and 'County' columns.
• Verifying the active license status of a rehabilitator via the 'License Expiration Date' and 'License Effective Date'.
• Analyzing the distribution and specialization of wildlife care services across New York counties.
• Contacting licensed professionals for public education or collaboration using 'Licensee Name', 'Business Phone', and 'City'.
• Checking for federal permit requirements and rabies certification status among practitioners.

Strengths

• Includes specific species-level data on what animals each rehabilitator accepts, enabling precise public matching.
• Provides official state licensing details, including expiration and effective dates, for verification purposes.
• Contains contact information (phone, city, county) for practical public use and geographic analysis.

Limitations

• The exact row count is not provided by any source, making the dataset's scale unclear.
• Sources disagree on the last update date, with one listing 2026-04-04 and another 2026-04-03, creating a minor conflict.
• The 'Federal Permit Number' and 'Rabies Certified' fields may contain null values, limiting completeness for some analyses.

Provenance

Source

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Bureau of Fish and Wildlife Services.

Collection Method

Official state licensing records.

Time Range

Coverage includes license effective and expiration dates, but the overall temporal range of the dataset is not specified.

Freshness

2026-04-04 23:10:52.643471

Geography

New York State, United States, with data organized by county and city.