Success Stories

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

Researchers: Saving Oiled Seabirds Is Effective Long-term

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New research out of New Zealand is helping underscore what we’ve always believed: Saving oiled birds and returning them to the wild healthy and clean is not just well meaning but worth the effort. Researchers from Massey University’s studied Little Blue Penguins (in photo above) following the 2011 Rena oil spill in the Bay of … Read more

Patient of the Week: Red-throated Loon

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This lucky loon recently made an unscheduled emergency landing on a Long Beach Airport runway. The Red-throated Loon (Gavia stellata) is now in care at our Los Angeles Center in San Pedro. The bird was found and captured at the busy airport on October 21, 2015. It was reported by airport workers to be dazed … Read more

The Release Files: Common Murres

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Ten more healthy Common Murres returned home this week. The seabirds were among hundreds of beached murres that have been rescued along the Northern California coast. They were released on October 23rd at Fort Baker in Sausalito, CA. The hungry, exhausted murres – a diving seabird that looks a lot like a penguin – seem … Read more

The Release Files: Masked Booby

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The wayward Masked Booby is back in the wild. It was released at White Point in San Pedro after about a week in care. The Booby was originally found in Newport, Oregon and then flown from Portland to Los Angeles after wildlife officials contacted our Southern California center. Masked Boobies are tropical birds and its … 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 #2: COME and go HOME

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Dear Friends of International Bird Rescue– [slideshow_deploy id=’14286′] Did you see Jurassic World yet? In the film, there are four Velociraptors that are shown as fast and savage hunters. Allow me to introduce International Bird Rescue’s very own “Velociraptors”–a set of four baby Common Mergansers that clearly demonstrated in their feeding habits how they are … 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