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News

You Can Make Second Chances Possible On #GivingTuesday

Your donation goes twice as far! Give the gift of second chances on Tuesday, December 1st.

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November 29, 2020
News

On Giving Tuesday Your Donation Goes Twice As Far

Help us raise $40,000 to support waterbird rescue and rehabilitation at our two California wildlife hospitals.

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November 24, 2020
Patient in Focus

Patient in Focus: Severely Injured Brown Pelican Bucks the Odds and is Released Back to Ocean

After 103 days in care, we are ecstatic to report that we released a very special patient this past week.

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November 23, 2020
Merchandise

New Limited-Edition Merchandise On Sale

Just in time for the holidays: Limited-edition merchandise to celebrate our 2020 Bird of the Year: The Western Grebe.

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November 18, 2020
Patient of the Week

Bird Heroes: Nine-year-old Daughter and Father Rescue Migratory Duck

A Green-winged Teal is alive and in care because of the heroic efforts of two family members in Mendocino County.

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November 16, 2020
Features

Photographers in Focus: Vivek Khanzodé

Our latest featured photographer is Vivek Khanzodé from Northern California. His interest in birds and nature blossomed after a trip to Costa Rica in 2009. The Resplendent Quetzal mesmerized him, and since then he has been traveling in the U.S. and the neotropics in Central and South America annually on nature themed vacations to capture

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November 2, 2020
News

Spooky Spirits: Bird Faces That Scream Halloween!

  This young Double-crested Cormorant is undoubtedly the Bird Rescue patient with the best Halloween scream. Instead of candy, he’s actually hoping to get a big delicious fish to eat, and he won’t stop screaming until he gets one. Caring for these baby birds gets our team in the Halloween spirit as they have to

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October 31, 2020
Patient of the Week

Patient of the Week: Brandt’s Cormorant

A Brandt’s Cormorant came to us last week after ingesting a fish hook and having two others lodged in its mouth. The two in its mouth were removed by our colleagues at Native Animal Rescue in Santa Cruz, but the hook that had been swallowed was a potential serious problem that may have needed surgery;

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October 15, 2020
Photographers in Focus

Photographers in Focus: Sandrine Biziaux-Scherson

This month we are spotlighting the gorgeous and evocative bird photography of Irvine-based Sandrine Biziaux-Scherson.

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October 7, 2020
News

Pelican with Repaired Pouch Tear Returns to the Wild

Watch then video of treatment and release After a month in care that included a 4-hour procedure to repair its torn pouch, a healed Brown Pelican was released this week and is back at home in the wild. The adult female pelican was banded with Y54, a special blue-band that helps International Bird Rescue track

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October 2, 2020
News

Brown Pelican’s Enormous Pouch Laceration Repaired

VIDEO UPDATE: After a month in care this Brown Pelican was released back to the wild! Remember Pink the Pelican back several years ago and its horrible pouch laceration? Another Brown Pelican patient has suffered an even worse sliced pouch. On August 30, 2020, a mature adult female Brown Pelican was found near the Ventura

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September 28, 2020
News

Heroic Efforts Couldn’t Save Wayward Nazca Booby

An unusual tropical patient came into care in September at International Bird Rescue’s Los Angeles Wildlife Center after being found stranded at the Port of Long Beach. The injured seabird, called a Nazca Booby, was far out of its normal range — some 3,000 miles from its home in the Galapagos Islands — and even

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September 23, 2020
Features

Seabirds in Distress: Penguin Look-alikes Showing Up On Northern California Beaches

A surge of seabirds beaching themselves along Northern California is overwhelming International Bird Rescue’s wildlife center. This summer over 200 sick Common Murres have been rescued and come into care. The birds – which resemble penguins but are more closely related to puffins – need a tremendous amount of care and Bird Rescue is asking

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August 26, 2020
Features

Great Egrets Released with GPS Trackers To Aid in Waterbird Research

The recent release of Great Egrets raised by International Bird Rescue and outfitted with special Global Positioning System (GPS) trackers will aid in the research of this majestic waterbird species. The GPS backpack was provided and fitted by our friends from Audubon Canyon Ranch (ACR) as part of a study of the movements and migrations

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August 8, 2020
Board Member Spotlight

International Bird Rescue Announces Two New Board Members

International Bird Rescue is excited to announce the election of two new members to its Board of Directors. The newly elected Board members are Elizabeth Kinney and Dave Westerholm. “I am pleased to welcome our two newest members to the Board of Directors,” said JD Bergeron, Bird Rescue’s Executive Director.  “They both bring a unique

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July 27, 2020
News

New Scientific Paper Published: Caspian Terns Saved, Rehabilitated, and Released by International Bird Rescue Are Surviving and Breeding!

Bird Rescue is proud to announce the publication of an important scientific paper on a rescue-and-rehabilitation effort that led to a notable success: the post-release survival and breeding of a group of Caspian Terns in Southern California. The story began in 2006 and 2007 in the Port of Long Beach, one of the busiest shipping

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July 22, 2020
Bird Rescue In The Community

Rescued Snowy Plover Now A Monterey Aquarium Ambassador Bird

The Snowy Plover that came into care back in May 2020 is now at its forever home at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. This tiny shorebird had its wing surgically pinned and later, physical therapy, but unfortunately the bird was deemed non releasable due to inadequate flight. His bone healed but his patagium – that web

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July 16, 2020
Events

Webinar: The Great Penguin Rescue: What We Learned At Treasure Oil Spill

  This year marks the 20th anniversary of the extraordinary rescue and rehabilitation of 20,000 oiled penguins at the Treasure oil spill in South Africa. The response team from International Bird Rescue was one of the key organizations providing its expertise and passion to make this one of the most successful wildlife responses in the

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July 10, 2020
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