
Bird Rescue Responds To Major Brown Pelican Crisis in California
At the Los Angeles Wildlife Center 178 pelican patients have arrived for care since May 12th. And now the Northern California center is seeing Brown Pelicans coming into care.
More than 160 sick and starving pelicans have come into care.
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.
More than 2,500 Elegant Terns are alive because of Bird Rescue's innovative rescue efforts at a colony located on barges in Long Beach Harbor.
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.
At the Los Angeles Wildlife Center 178 pelican patients have arrived for care since May 12th. And now the Northern California center is seeing Brown Pelicans coming into care.
Nearly four years after release from our Los Angeles wildlife center, a former patient – a blue-banded Brown Pelican – was spotted on Santa Barbara Island, caring for a young pelican.
Just as our wildlife response work at the Peru oil spill was winding down, Bird Rescue received a call to respond to a spill in Medford, Oregon, as thousands of gallons of petroleum products were
It’s been nearly three months since a 500,000 gallon oil spill coated beaches and wildlife along the coast of Peru. In those months International Bird Rescue has done what it knows best: Providing seasoned personnel with years of experience to South America to assist with the rescue and rehabilitation of oiled wildlife.
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