Lisa Amin Gulezian of ABC7 News/San Francisco reported from our San Francisco Bay center in Fairfield last night on the mystery substance incident in the East Bay affecting many seabird species. Senior IBR staffers Michelle Bellizzi and Julie Skoglund are interviewed about this unprecedented situation.
Updated 1/18/15 @ 8:39 pm: More than 150 of seabirds contaminated with a mystery substance are in care at our San Francisco Bay Center. Teams will resume at dawn the search for more fouled birds along the eastern shore of SF Bay – including Alameda, Bay Farm Island and south toward Hayward.
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We also are now having success in washing birds healthy enough to endure the wash process. The birds are being cleaned in various baths that includes Methyl soyate, vinegar, baking soda and copious amounts of Dawn dishwashing liquid.
We need your support. With no indication of the substance’s origin, International Bird Rescue is paying for all emergency care costs at this time and is seeking public support. Donations to help can be made online or by mail to International Bird Rescue, 4369 Cordelia Rd, Fairfield CA 94534. Please consider a donation of $25, $50 or more to care for these wonderful seabirds.
A Surf Scoter is brought to International Bird Rescue’s San Francisco Bay center covered in the mystery substance.
Such heart breaking story on these Seabird’s! I’m a wildlife lover! I love loon’s,Crane’s,Trumpiter Swan’s,more!
I’m a volunteer at this facility and it breaks my heart. Another volunteer and myself spent an entire day just in making fish slurry for all of those poor souls. (Fish slurry is basically fish milkshake with basic vitamins crushed into it to give them a boost in nutrition)