Marie Travers of IBRRC’s Northern California bird center pointed me to a really beautiful video of the Frigatebird released on Catalina Island in Southern California. More press on the release: San Francisco Chronicle The Vacaville Reporter Santa Rosa Press Democrat Vallejo Times Herald Subscribe in a reader
Without much fanfare, the juvenile Magnificent Frigatebird that was found in Sonoma County last month and then came to IBRRC with a lot of interest by birders and the media was successfully released Tuesday, February 5 on the cliffs at the backside of Santa Catalina Island. Marie Travers, IBRRC’s Assistant Rehabilitation Manager at IBRRC’s Cordelia … Read more
The wayward Magnificent Frigatebird that was spotted in a tree in Healdsburg, CA after being blown off course by relentless storms in January, will be released back into the wild in Southern California early this week. The male juvenile Frigatebird is in route this weekend to be set free Monday or Tuesday on the Channel … Read more
Nice article by Peter Fimrite on the front page of today’s San Francisco Chronicle about the Frigatebird found in Healdsburg and now being treated at IBRRC in Cordelia: “A giant tropical bird – a type rarely, if ever, seen in the Bay Area – got stuck in the vortex of a hurricane-force Pacific storm this … Read more