Dear Friends, What bird looks a bit like a flying dinosaur, yet has the precision and power to soar majestically and dive for its food? The iconic California Brown Pelican has long been an indicator species for changes in our environment. Once decimated by DDT use, their populations have bounced back, and we want to … Read more
Who are we taking care of in the Bay Area these days? SF Bay Area volunteer coordinator Cheryl Reynolds provides us with the latest patient numbers at our NorCal center: Pied-billed Grebe: 2 Common Murre: 1 Brandt’s Cormorant: 1 Western Gull: 2 Brown Pelican: 16 Black-Crowned Night Heron: 1 California Gull: 1 Herring Gull: 1 … Read more
*At our wildlife care center in the San Francisco Bay Area, we currently have one non-avian patient as well: a Western Fence Lizard found stuck in a glue trap.
New patients this week include two American Coots, one Royal Tern and 1 Green Heron.
As is customary for end-of-the-week on our blog, International Bird Rescue’s Bay Area and Los Angeles wildlife care center teams have filled us in on the current number and species of birds in care. Here’s the combined tally from our two centers (current as of Thursday afternoon, September 20): Thanks to Cheryl Reynolds and Neil … Read more
Just when you thought the art of word clouds was solely reserved for dissecting political speech in this campaign season… Cheryl Reynolds, our volunteer and outreach coordinator at International Bird Rescue’s Bay Area wildlife care center, recently gave us an update on the number of current birds in care, which we promptly fed into Wordle … Read more
Each year International Bird Rescue cares for more than 150 Black-crowned Night-Herons. Many of these are fledglings that have fallen from an urban rookery above Santa Rosa’s bustling West Ninth Street. This group nests in trees above a 5 to 6 foot traffic median, and Bird Rescue is continually grateful for and impressed by the … Read more
In June 2008 a handful of Double-crested Cormorant eggs were saved from nesting next to PG&E transmission structures near the Dumbarton Bridge in Palo Alto, CA.
It’s happened with predictable regularity, every spring IBR braces for Domoic Acid infected seabirds entering into care – especially California Brown Pelicans. Called DA for short, Domoic Acid is a neurotoxin that causes brain seizures in ocean wildlife that will ultimately die if not treated quickly and aggressively. In the spring of 2007 it was … Read more