Photos by Bill Steinkamp Upon seeing photos of a recent Sooty Shearwater in care at our Los Angeles center, we found an interesting tidbit on the migratory prowess of this amazing seabird, which rivals the Arctic Tern in distance traveled. Via UC-Santa Cruz Currents: Every summer, millions of Sooty Shearwaters arrive off the coast of … Read more
Video taken at our San Francisco Bay center. Many thanks to our intern and volunteer team for painting the gull puppet for feeding time! Photo by Cheryl Reynolds
Red-banded egret photo by Cindy Margulis Herons and egrets are common visitors to our two rehabilitation centers in California. Each year, we receive adult birds that have various injuries or illnesses, but it’s the baby herons and egrets of the summer that make the biggest impact. The species that we typically receive, in order of … Read more
This post was originally written for KQED’s QUEST multimedia series by Sharol Nelson-Embry, Supervising Naturalist at the Crab Cove Visitor Center & Aquarium in Alameda. The loon (pictured above, photo by Cheryl Reynolds) was released on Saturday at Crown Beach in the East Bay. We’ll be updating this post soon with photos of the release! … Read more
What’s new? —CNN takes a look at marine debris and its effects on the Hawaiian Islands (video above). Correspondent Kyung Lah visits Kamilo Beach on the Big Island, where groups such as Hawaii Wildlife Fund are cleaning up plastic trash and other debris, much of it from the 2011 tsunami disaster in Japan. Lah also … Read more
Photo: Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images What’s new? —Israel works to restore wetlands in the Hula Valley, an important migratory spot for cranes (as shown above) and other birds. [National Public Radio] —The New York Times delves into the world of Blakiston’s Fish Owls and winter raptor birding excursions. [New York Times] —Native flowers in Australia have … Read more
This past Saturday, International Bird Rescue’s veterinarian, Dr. Rebecca Duerr, and L.A. Wildlife Center Manager Julie Skoglund hosted 17 veterinary students interested in wildlife pathology from Western University for an all-day event. Dr. Duerr gave the students lectures on anatomy and necropsy techniques that focused on points of difference between wild bird species and domestic … Read more
International Bird Rescue’s Russ Curtis has your daily dose of intriguing bird facts on Twitter. Are you following us? Check us out @intbirdrescue. More than 6,500 followers can’t be wrong! Blue-footed Boobies in the Galapagos Islands. Photo taken during International Bird Rescue’s response to the Jessica spill in 2001.
Estonia, Tasmania, South Africa, Argentina: It’s hard to keep track of the 200+ oil spill response efforts we’ve been a part of over the past four decades. So we’ve put it in geographic form. Click on the push pins below for info on some of the spills we’ve responded to in the past, including major … Read more
As 2012 draws to a close, we’re looking back on some of International Bird Rescue’s most fascinating case studies of the year. Today, we remember an amazing comeback by a Brown Pelican, told by Dr. Rebecca Duerr: On October 1, young adult Brown Pelican 12-1473 was brought to our Los Angeles facility by Redondo Beach … Read more