Join International Bird Rescue for a fundraiser celebrating 40 years of life-saving work in the San Francisco Bay Area! A 40-year Retrospective The Future of Bird Rescue • Cocktails Light Hors d’oeuvres Silent Auction • The David Brower Center Berkeley, California Friday, April 20, 2012 6:30 to 9:00 p.m. Space is limited. Purchase tickets … Read more
Every oil spill International Bird Rescue responds to seems to be symbolized by at least one of the species that it impacted. In 1996, the King Eider symbolized the Pribilof Islands’ Citrus spill, in 2000 the African Penguin symbolized South Africa’s Treasure spill, and in 1999 the Snowy Plover symbolized Oregon’s New Carissa spill. For … Read more
97 oiled Murres – penguin-like diving birds that spend most of their lives at sea – have been brought to International Bird Rescue for care over the last two months, and as of yesterday afternoon they are still flooding in. Unlike the birds we hear about during high profile oil spills, these birds are being … Read more
A 40-Year Retrospective & The Future of Bird Rescue Cocktails Light Hors d’oeuvres Silent Auction The David Brower Center Berkeley, California Friday, April 20, 2012 6:30 to 9:00 p.m. Space is limited. Purchase tickets in advance. _________________________________ In 1971, an oil spill in the San Francisco Bay brought together a group of … Read more
I am one of the few people who have been fortunate enough to visit Midway Atoll in the northern part of the Hawaiian Archipegelo; in fact, I’ve made it there twice! Midway is famous as a nesting site for millions of pelagic seabirds such as Laysan and Black-footed Albatrosses, Bonnin’s Petrels, endangered Laysan Ducks and … Read more
Reporting Blue-banded Pelicans Matters International Bird Rescue puts numbered U.S. Fish and Wildlife stainless steel bands on the legs of all of the birds we release so that they can be identified in the future and we can evaluate their survivability. We get some return visits and re-sightings of these birds, but most live in … Read more
On Tuesday, January 31, International Bird Rescue’s Wildlife Center in Los Angeles will release a majestic Laysan Albatross back to its ocean home. The question remains: How did an exotic bird that thrives in North Pacific waters from Hawaii to Alaska arrive in California? Even more perplexing: How did this giant seabird, with a 6 … Read more
Around 100,000 Tundra Swans migrate along the Pacific Flyway from their Arctic breeding grounds each year to spend the winter in California. On December 16, 2011 one such Swan was found alone on the road in Meridian, north of Sacramento, and brought to International Bird Rescue’s San Francisco Bay Wildlife Rescue Center for care. Hatched … Read more
On January 5, Santa Clara County’s Injured and Orphaned Wildlife Inc. came to International Bird Rescue with a Western Screech Owl that had flown into insulation foam as workers were insulating an attic. With its face coated in hardened foam, its life was in danger. As soon as the patient arrived at our San … Read more
Dear Friends, As we greet 2012, I wanted to thank you for your incredible support in 2011. All of us at International Bird Rescue are energized and encouraged by the impact your generosity, engagement and participation has had on our work on behalf of aquatic birds around the world. Heartening news of re-sightings of released … Read more