[…]of aquatic birds each summer. Bird Ally X provides treatment to rescued birds, working with the Klamath Basin National Wildlife Refuge. 2020 saw an exceptionally catastrophic outbreak. Read more about Bird Ally X’ s response effort below. Slideshow – BAX Botulism Response 2020 The summer of 2020 brought exceptionally serious conditions for the botulism outbreak. From July to September over 3000 birds with botulism had come through the hospital and tens of thousands more deceased birds had been collected. In the summer an average of 500 birds per day, sometimes exceeding 1000, were being collected by refuge biologists. Bird Ally […]
[…]this aviary will be large enough for Red-tailed hawks and Ravens and will greatly increase capacity at our small Bayside, California facility. With final work being done right now, we anticipate completion by July 1. Multi-purpose design allows for flexible use! Added to our other recent additions, our capacity to care for injured and orphaned wildlife on California’s Northcoast has grown dramatically in the last 2 years. We now have specialized aviaries for every species of bird that we treat. We’ve also added new mammal housing for complete onsite care for all our raccoon, opossum (and this year even coyote) […]
[…](last year we treated 1,612 of our wild neighbors!) and the coming of our busy wild baby season, but this is the year we have to find our new location and move there. We are extremely grateful for this opportunity provided by the membership and leadership of the North Coast Co-op! So please, this month, when you shop the co-op, remember us when you checkout and be sure to ask to round up your purchase to support our region’s injured and orphaned wild animals! And thank you to everyone who supports our work! Without you we wouldnt be here at […]
[…]Wildlife Care Center. See you at next year’s Barntini! Thank you to everyone who donated food, drink, art and more! Bien Padre Bonnie MacRaith Brett Shuler Catering Casa Lindra Coast Seafoods Cypress Grove Dutch and Dewey’s Eureka Natural Foods Fieldbrook Winery Gretchen Schuster Gus Clark Humboldt Distillery Ken Griggs Homemade Beer Laura Corsiglia Linda Parkinson Moonstone Crossing Winery North Coast Co-op Patricia Sennot Six Rivers Brewery Tomaso’s Specialty Food Wildberries Willow Creek […]
[…]toward independence by jumping out of their nests. As we remind everyone, this is wild baby season. All over the county, and everywhere, young animals are learning the ways of the world. For songbirds like crows, this means weak and a little clumsy flight long after they leave the nest. They are vulnerable to all sorts of dangers, and in our modern world many of these dangers are man-made – cars, windows, cats, and more. And some times they are at risk of false imprisonment. When the Eureka Animal Control Officer Rob Patton pulled up in our driveway 2 weeks […]
[…]lives in the region, and Marie Travers, will be leading the effort. A botulism outbreak on the Klamath Refuge in 2018 resulted in over 400 wild birds, predominantly waterfowl, to be treated for the bacterial infection, and thousands of other birds deaths. (read more about last year’s response.) January and Marie also led last year’s response, which resulted in hundreds of birds saved from the paralyzing disease, as well as the development of protocols for care which were shared around the western states, where avian botulism is becoming a chronic problem, as well as the entire wildlife rehabilitation community. Avian […]
[…]day of this crisis. Every day another million gallons, at least, erupts into the Gulf. By the latest satellite imagery, the slick appears to be well ‘entrained’ in the warm ocean current that flows out of the Gulf of Mexico and becomes the Gulf stream, moving up the East coast of the North America and eventually across the Atlantic to northern […]
[…]which made a huge difference in our ability to meet the challenges of our very busy wild baby season, which happens at the same time. Also, as it turns out, it benefited even more than usual since our director was sidelined by major health issues right at the start of the season. The funding that this program provided us helped in both measurable and immeasurable ways, making our work easier at a time when we were very concerned about just how difficult the 2021 season would be. Thanks to you, we did more than survive, we thrived. Now the time […]
Every year BAX honors our dedicated volunteers with a show and a party! And we invite everyone to come help us celebrate their devotion and love for our wild neighbors. Without our volunteers, our work wouldn’t be possible. Please come join us and also help us raise much needed funds to cover the cost of our rent! Music by The Neighbors, Medicine Baul and Rob DiPerna! Dance and Aerial Dance perfrmed by Leslie Castellano and Jessica Rubin! Poetry too (from your host and HWCC director, Monte Merrick (that’s me)) Join us Saturday, December 10, in Old Town […]
At Moonstone Beach in Westhaven, about 15 miles north of Arcata, a small grove of tall Monterey cypress is one of the Earthly portals where Herons come into the world. The 9th of May, right after a high wind, a tiny, newly hatched Black-crowned Night Heron, was brought to our Bayside clinic. The little bird still had his ‘egg-tooth,’ a small pointy extra bit at the end of his upper bill, that hatchlings have to help break through the egg from the inside. He weighed about 50 grams. The trees at Moonstone are tall and branchless until their canopy. Without […]