On a recent afternoon at the Golden Gate Recreation Area’s Ft. Baker, International Bird Rescue released its 1,000th Blue-Banded Pelican, with wonderful help from bird lover Ken Blum and his family! #ROO, a juvenile, was released alongside a fellow juvenile pelican. Surrounded by porpoises, gulls, cormorants, grebes and sea lions at Ft. Baker, the two … Read more
As summer kicks into gear on California beaches, record numbers of young, starving California Brown Pelicans are being reported by concerned beach goers and threatening to overwhelm rescue centers up and down the coast. International Bird Rescue is one of the groups most significantly impacted. “While mortality of fledgling Pelicans is a normal occurrence, what … Read more
Here at International Bird Rescue we love the Brown Pelican. It’s part of our logo and we pride ourselves in treating this bird with the respect and care it deserves. Since its beginning in 1971, Bird Rescue has worked hard to become the premier Brown Pelican rehabilitation organization on the west coast of the United … Read more
Dear Bird Rescue Supporters: I would like to provide you with an overview of what we know about the recent California Brown Pelican event that began in mid-December 2008 and slowed down in the last week or so. I wish we were able to point to a single “smoking gun” but we are not. Instead … Read more
The reward has been increased to $20,000 for information leading to an arrest of the person involved in the brutal attack on nearly a dozen pelicans earlier this month along the coastline of Orange County, CA. At least 11 California Brown Pelicans suffering from severe wing injuries washed up on Bolsa Chica State Beach between … Read more
What is it that causes so much anger against Brown Pelicans? This week 11 young pelicans were found with their wings intentionally broken along an Orange County beach in Southern California. Only one pelican has survived. There’s now a $5,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. Local wildlife officials say the attacks appear to … Read more
The brown pelican named “Gigi” that landed and halted traffic in August on the Golden Gate Bridge was released released back to the wild on Friday, September 12. The young bird was rescued and transferred to International Bird Rescue where it has been recuperating for the past several weeks. Watch: Brown Pelican captured on Golden … Read more
After 40 years of being on the precipice of extinction the Brown Pelican is poised to be removed from the national endangered species list, according to recent announcement by the U.S. Interior Department. See: National Geographic report The pelicans were put on the endangered species list after the use of the pesticide DDT caused catastrophic … Read more