Countdown to Kindness: Giving Tuesday is One Week Away
On #GivingTuesday this year we hope to raise $40,000 to sustain clinic operations and respond to future wildlife crises – providing a lifeline for birds in need.
On #GivingTuesday this year we hope to raise $40,000 to sustain clinic operations and respond to future wildlife crises – providing a lifeline for birds in need.
During these last days of 2010 your gift to IBRRC will go twice as far to help birds. Between now and December 31, 2010 a generous donor has agreed to match all gifts, dollar for dollar, up $15,000. Oiled, injured and sick aquatic birds arrive at one of our two California rescue centers nearly every … Read more
The public is being urged by rescuers to keep an eye out for the remaining beer-can-collared gulls in the San Francisco Bay Area. Recent sightings of the adult and juvenile Western gulls have come in from Bolinas Lagoon to San Francisco’s Fishermen’s Wharf to SF State University out near Lake Merced. The bird (top, right) … Read more
Lot’s have people are asking how they can help IBRRC during this busy time. Besides a direct monetary donation, you can still help us by buying a bottle of DAWN Dishwashing liquid or purchasing items from the IBRRC online store. We’ve got IBRRC t-shirts, hats, lapel pins and photo cards. All the proceeds go to … Read more
It’s orphaned duckling season here at IBRRC. You can help us care for the thousands of these aquatic birds we raise each year. It’s only 25 bucks and you get a adoption certificate. The good vibe after your adoption lasts soooo much longer. Go >> Adopt-a-Duckling. Subscribe in a reader
Spring is finally upon us and that means one thing at IBRRC: Ducklings! This year we’re again asking the public to help us pay for the cost of raising these orpahaned ducklings. Each year we receive thousands of these adorable little water birds. They have huge appetites and if you can help us out, we’d … Read more
Aquatic bird specialists, International Bird Rescue Research Center (IBRRC) is noticing a trend in California Brown Pelicans along the coastline from Monterey to San Diego and they need your help. An unusual number of birds are coming in thin and disoriented – being found on roads and in fields. What is remarkable is that many … Read more
Thanks to a generous grant from SeaWorld & Busch Gardens Conservation Fund, brown pelicans in distress will get more help in California. The Fund recently issued a grant to IBRRC totaling $5,000 in emergency funding to help the organization purchase food and medical supplies. Since June 2008, hundreds of injured brown pelicans with hook, tackle … Read more
A big thanks to the Disney Worldwide Conservation Fund (DWCF) for its $5,000 emergency grant to IBRRC to help pay for rehabilitating the injured pelicans found along the coast of California. IBRRC was overwhelmed with hundreds of injured Brown Pelicans this summer at both California bird centers. Most were brought in for hook and fishing … Read more
In the last few days our Northern California rehabilitation center, located in Fairfield, received another 25 brown pelicans from the Santa Cruz area. That makes a total of 137 pelicans this year in Northern California alone and 115 of those pelicans have come in since June 15th! Until recently they have been mostly young birds … Read more