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Thank You For Giving Birds A Second Chance

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Dear Friends and Bird Allies, Maybe it’s snowing where you are, but we never get a snowy day around our centers. We do get our share of Snowy Egrets: 308 this year! This year, we are counting our blessings. With thousands of birds in need of care – your generous support in 2015 has made … Read more

A Year To Remember

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Dear Friends and Bird Allies, For 44 years, International Bird Rescue has been responding to oiled wildlife emergencies all over the world, and yet 2015 has been a year to remember! On January 16th, we received reports of a large number of water birds on San Francisco Bay contaminated with an unknown sticky substance – … Read more

How Did You Help A Bird Today?

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Dear Friends and Bird Allies, To answer the question of how I helped a bird today, I must first back up to a recent Saturday when I was volunteering in the San Francisco Bay clinic. Two adult Brown Pelicans had come into care with Domoic Acid poisoning, which can involve seizures. In order to control … Read more

Giving Thanks

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Dear Friends and Bird Allies, This morning, our dedicated team in both wildlife centers are busily working to feed and care for our resident wild birds. In wildlife rehabilitation, there are no holidays! The work of cleaning pools and enclosures, medicating birds, changing bandages, and feeding these hungry patients continues 365 days a year. Our … Read more

We Love Boobies!

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What’s better than one booby?! How about two? We have a pair of very rare boobies in care at our Los Angeles Center: a Red-footed Booby and a Masked Booby. Both of these seabird species are uncommon West Coast visitors. Red-footed Boobies can usually be found in tropical and sub-tropical waters across the globe. Masked … Read more

Patient of the Week: Red-Footed Booby

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We are treating a Red-Footed Booby – a very rare visitor to Southern California – at our Los Angeles Center. The seabird was found September 13th by Redondo Beach Animal Control on the Redondo Beach fishing pier. The officer observed that the bird was not moving. Upon initial exam, the Booby was found to be … Read more

The Release Files: Snowy Egrets

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Two Snowy Egrets were released back to the wild this week by IBR staff and volunteers at Ballona Wetlands in Playa del Rey, CA. One of the birds had a toe amputation and required extra care the other was a short term patient. Thanks to Doug Carter for the wonder photos. Love Snowy Egrets? You … Read more

The Weekly Bittern

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Dear supporters of International Bird Rescue, Tuesday marked the end of my first week as Executive Director, and what a week it has been! For my first few days, I had the privilege of being among the incredibly capable team at our southern facility, the Los Angeles Oiled Bird Care Center. Led by Operations Manager … Read more