Each year we provide care and educational opportunities to several orphaned Northern Raccoon babies (Procyon lotor) – anywhere from a dozen to three dozen of the young, highly inquisitive, intelligent, and iconic mammals, depending on how well our outreach protecting denning mothers works. This year we had great success helping people peacefully co-exist with neighborhood raccoons or humanely evict raccoon families from raccoon dens in crawl spaces and attics. Because of this success, we’ve admitted less than 20 raccoon babies this year. (to read about our other years, and learn more about our raccoon program check out all of our […]
[…]right after we opened the clinic, the kind person brought in a young Peregrine Falcon. After an examination, it was obvious that the bird must have fallen from the nest. Her primary feathers, which are needed for flight, weren’t grown in sufficiently for a fledgling – a real shame. She had no injuries except for dehydration and exhaustion from her watery ordeal. If she had been old enough to fly we could have provided her with fluid support and some nutrition then released her back to her family. But this bird was about a week shy of that and would […]
(This is the text from our 2017 holiday card. Want to be on our mailing list? follow this link!) Season’s Greetings, Friends of Wildlife! It’s a pleasure to send you this Holiday card! We like to imagine them on refrigerator doors, push pinned to cork boards, tucked into shoeboxes, preserving each year’s portrait of a wild neighbor who’d been in our care! Collect them all! We enjoy the opportunity to thank everyone who generously helped keep our doors open. It gives us a chance to share an individual’s story – which you can multiply by thousands – to show the […]
[…]as staff rolled into the clinic to open for the day, a white pickup truck from the Humboldt Waste Management Authority was parked in our lot. Sure enough a few minutes later, an employee from the Eureka facility came though our door. She had a bat in a small cardboard box. She said that someone had dropped off a bucket of used motor-oil soaked rags along with other hazardous waste from somewhere up in the hills east of the Bay. In that bucket there was also a Big Brown Bat (Eptesicus fuscus). At first glance, the bat did not look good. He was completely […]
[…]evaluation, treatment, release – is the best readiness. BAX personnel keep up to date with latest developments in protocols and research in the field. Volunteers and interns receive training that prepares them for quick response in case of an emergency. Bird Ally X personnel have extensive experience in managing the various aspects of wildlife care in oil spills as well as other non-petroleum disasters. BAX response to Botulism outbreaks BAX contributes to a substantial response to the recurring outbreaks of avian botulism, in the Klamath basin of Northern California. Read more about this important work that saves thousand of birds […]
Help!
Volunteers are needed! Avian Botulism has struck again, and thousands of migratory waterfowl and shorebirds are sick and dying!
Beginning on September 3rd Bird Ally X Botulism Response has been treating over 50 new patients each day. As of September 10, 356 sick birds have been admitted to our field hospital on the Lower Klamath Wildlife Refuge just south of Klamath Falls. Staffing is very short right now and we desperately need help. Volunteers are needed to assist with many tasks, housekeeping, feeding, helping with exams and more. You will be given the training you need to complete each […]
[…]Once their young can fly and hunt for fish on their own, they depart the lakes to spend the winter along the coast on bays, inlets, river mouths and on the open ocean, often seen just beyond the break in large groups called rafts. Checking body condition: many of our patients are emaciated. Young birds who are unfamiliar with the ocean can struggle with storms and high seas, leaving them vulnerable. A few days of not being able to eat and they may find themselves too weak to recover on their own. Add to this mix the modern challenges of […]
Thank you to everyone who supported us throughout 2018, and especially those who made donations during our crucial year-end fundraising efforts. We matched the amount we’ve raised other years, and we enter 2019 in the black! Your support is very alleviating of stress and worry!!! Now for some real talk: 2018 was a very difficult year, with a workload that was nearly 50% greater than 2017, but over a 10% dip in available resources. If not for in-kind donations such as milk replacer for the orphaned fawns in our care last Summer (Thank you Anita and Jed!!!) we might not […]
[…]getting baby birds back in their nests, or rebuilding their nests if they’ve been unintentionally destroyed. Solving conflicts over the phone isn’t easy! Often, people who call are very frustrated and a little bit mad at the wild animal trying to use their space. Patience is usually required in order to get through this part of the call. But we always remember: The caller wants our help. They want to do the right thing. That’s why they called us. And our solutions have to work! There are always those in any community who will leap to the lethal solution. If […]
[…]site to gather information and make photographs. Fortunately our area is rich in wildlife professionals, in no small measure due to the presence of the nationally recognized wildlife program at Humboldt State University. Neither BAX or the Humboldt Wildlife Care Center are equipped to treat any marine mammals, so we then notified North Coast Marine Mammal Center’s hotline (951-4722) and we contacted Dawn Goley, professor of zoology at HSU and Stranding coordinator of the Marine Mammal Stranding Network. Sadly, the whale, a juvenile about 10 meters in length, was already deceased. While Ms. Corsiglia documented the process, Professor Goley along […]