
California Storms Bring New Faces Into Care
A variety of new bird patients, including lots of Western Grebes, have come into care since January 13, 2023 from the intense California winter storms.
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Learn how Bird Rescue is responding to the new, deadly strain of HPAI affecting wild bird populations.
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Nearly 350 sick and starving pelicans arrived into care starting in May 2022 at our wildlife centers.
You can help us spot our former Brown Pelican patients in the wild. Report pelicans with special blue leg bands.
Problems with climate and human development are happening quickly. Bird Rescue is charting a bold, new path to help.
The collision of two oil tankers on San Francisco Bay in 1971 resulted in the humble formation of International Bird Rescue in direct response to this crisis.
International Bird Rescue’s wildlife clinics are open year-round to provide critical care to seabirds beyond treating oiled wildlife. In 2019 alone, rehabilitation teams admitted over 3,500 birds between our two California clinic locations. These patients were brought to us by the general public and affiliated wildlife groups. Our focus has been to act toward balance with the natural world by rescuing waterbirds in crisis – since 1971 we’ve admitted over 125,000 birds and the count continues.
A variety of new bird patients, including lots of Western Grebes, have come into care since January 13, 2023 from the intense California winter storms.
Common Loons contaminated with natural seep were admitted into care. Despite their dirty feathers, these birds are at a healthy weight and have minimal injuries.
The 2022 Patient of the Year is the Red-tailed Tropicbird! Nicknamed the “Lady Gaga bird” by a TV news reporter, the Tropicbird was a stowaway in March 2022 on a container ship that arrived into the Port of Los Angeles.
The threat to wild birds is real: Bird Flu, known to the scientific community as Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), has emerged in 2022 as a serious and deadly threat to birds in a changing world.
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