Laura Corsiglia, bird ally
featured image: Nesting Materials: They don’t die 22″ x 30″ ink, pencil, color pencil, china marker, collage on paper 2017, which was lost in the fire. It was 2004 when Laura Corsiglia named me the Bird Ally. I had been working in Southern California, in Los Angeles and in Trona, as a wildlife rehabilitator, focused […]
Happy New Year! May the coming months bring happiness and justice and lot less cruelty than we endured in 2025
Thank you to everyone who played a role – no matter how small – in keeping our doors open all year and promoting peaceful coexistence with the Wild! You’re the tops! You’re the Mona Lisa! DONATE
Great Blue Heron is so Great!
On December 3 at Humboldt Wildlife Care Center/bird ally x, we were called about a Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) seen struggling alongside Table Bluff Road. Our rescue team arrived at the scene shortly after and found the large bird, who tried to escape from our capture attempt, but was unable to fly. Once back […]
Opening Care Center Mail During End of Year Appeal… [VIDEO]
Thank you so much for your support over the years especially in 2025! This year has been extremely busy. Moreover, we are still rebuilding our facility after a sudden move nearly 3 years ago! Your support has meant that there hasn’t been a day when we could not meet our mission. In difficult times, because […]
Our Annual Holiday Card Is At Your House!
Your support now and throughout the year and years keeps our doors open. Thank you for your love for the Wild. DONATE
New Wild Review v 6 ep 5 PLEASE RELEASE ME!
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download () | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSSOur latest episode of our podcast in which our host recounts two epic releases, and how they demonstrate release as last item of care for our patients. Your support makes our work possible. Every year we treat and release hundeds […]
NEW FEATURE: THE WILD IN CULTURE! Jordan Peele’s NOPE resonates with wildlife care provider.
Introducing a new feature and new voice to New Wild Review, the Bird Ally X blog, we bring you Joc Garcia, a wildlife rehabilitator at Humboldt Wildlife Care Center thinking on the topic of aliens, human use of animals, and what that means for a wildlife care provider. When you become a wildlife rehabilitator you […]
Raptor Aviary, a progress report [VIDEO]
After some unforeseen delays, we were able to begin putting up our new raptor aviary. Soon it will be soaring! Your support makes our work possible, including re-building our facility after our sudden move two years ago. Thank you for keeping our doors open and our patients provided with care. DONATE
Red-throated Loon Released!
This Red-throated Loon (Gavia stellata) got a second chance because your support keeps our seabird pools functioning and our doors open to the many faces of the Wild who call our region home in their hour of need. Thank you. Please support our work if you can. DONATE
Orphaned Cedar Waxwings Released!
After several days of eating berries from branches and no longer being fed by care providers, it was time to release the young Waxwings! Fortunately Arcata is filled with Cedar Waxwings and Berries at this time of year (late September) so releasing them was a cinch! Without your support, none of this would be possible. […]
A rare, but regular, patient: Leach’s Storm Petrel Released
A Storm-petrel is not a bird that you will automatically see just because you signed up for 3 score and ten on good old Mother Earth. Smaller than an American Robin (Turdus migratorius) but spending all of their lives at sea, Leach’s Storm-petrels (Hydrobates leucorhous), the tiny cousins of Albatross, Fulmars, Shearwaters and other tubenoses […]
Orphaned Cedar Waxwings Last Feeding of the Day [video]
These three Cedar Waxwings (Bombycilla cedrorum) are a joy to care for, and the reward is incredible. But we cannot pay our bills with our happiness and fulfillment, though that would be incredibly useful if we could considering how rich in those things we are. However, there is a solution! You! Your support makes this […]
Big Day!!! Six releases and a Visit from the OWCN!
A Really Big Day at Humboldt Wildlife Care Center/bird ally x!!! Thanks to the Oiled Wildlife Care Network, for over thirty years of responding to wildlife injured and displaced by oil spills! Thanks for coming to see us! In the video I failed to adequately acknowledge the people who came to visit! Rats! But we’ll […]
At the End of the Day
A quick video made at day’s end, the beginning of September, reflecting on our current state and our needs…. Your support makes everything we do possible. We need you. Thank you DONATE
September Morn with Barn Swallows in Care [VIDEO+]
Look! A soundtrack! First feeding of the morning, 7:45 am. Your support means everything. We’ve already treated, cared for, raised and released 25 Swallows in 2025 (Barn, Violet-green, Cliff; family, Hirundinidae) and these 5 Barn Swallows still in care will most likely be the last Swallow babies of the year. Just in staff time alone, […]
A Summer of Many Baby Crows!
Until this year, our statistically normal number of Crows (technically, American Crows (Corvus brachyrhynchos) that we admit annually has fluctuated between 20 and 30, with about 75% of them being juveniles, fledglings, nestlings or hatchlings – in other words only about 1 in 4 are adults. But this year has been extraordinary. So far, we’ve […]
Raccoons of 2025! First orphans released!
The first baby raccoons of our 2025 wild orphan season were admitted on May 25. For the baby raccoons who come to us so young that their eyes are still closed, they will be in care for at least four months before they are able to be released back to their wild freedom. Our first […]