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[…]Heermann’s Gulls, who often forage and hunt with Brown Pelicans. These birds are being doused in fish waste as they forage for scraps beneath the outflow of these polluting pipes. Fish waste and fish oil disrupt the feather structure that allows a seabird to remain dry and warm when entering the cold waters of the North Pacific. Without rescue they die. Multiple incidents of such contaminations have been documented with photographs and video by Bird Ally X rescue crews in Crescent City and Shelter Cove. California Department of Fish and Game code 5650 (a)(6) specifically states that it is […]
[…]be composted wherever possible. Many studies were completed on the feasability of composting fishwaste on small and large scales in the late 1980s, primarily as a way to eliminate the unsightly and malodorous nature of fish carcasses. These studies had very favorable findings. (here is one example) BAX and Humboldt Wildlife Care Center will soon meet with the Board Of Commissioners of the Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District to discuss ways to make the fillet table at Shelter Cove bird-safe. Fillet tables are well-used and appreciated. Often they provide a place for sport fishers to meet and share […]
[…]x 17″ At-a-glance information on keeping wildlife safe from the deleterious effects of the oily waste that comes from cleaning catch. Educational poster suitable for Marinas, Boat Launches, Fishing Docks, wildlife rehabilitation centers and other places. Designed by BAX and made possible by a grant from the Kure Stuyvesant Trust and support from the USFWS and California DFW. This poster is available for FREE while supplies last, plus shipping & handling. Available as a paper or all-weather vinyl poster. Free (plus $3.99 shipping & handling. Please note PayPal will charge $0.01 + […]
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[…]of the most stupid and ordinary things in the world – a barrel of society’s petroleum waste. Thanks to you this bat had a place to go when in a bad situation. Imagine the initial surprise the people at Humboldt Waste Management Authority felt when first discovering him in the bucket of oily rags. If not for you, they would have had no recourse. Everyday, your support makes that difference. Thank you! all photos: Bird Ally […]
[…]The cleaning station is an open table with a center trough that takes the fish waste into a grinder where it is processed and ejected into the ocean. Approximately 20 fish carcasses were laying on the table – no one was present. We captured the 4 pelicans and 1 gull before dark and brought them back to the Humboldt Wildlife Care Center (HWCC). As we caught these birds, by telephone, I was live on the local radio station, KMUD, describing what we were doing and seeing. The program host, Barbara Schultz said that the community of Shelter Cove would […]
[…]City and discovered at least 2 dozen juvenile Brown Pelicans heavily contaminated. Large bins of fish-waste at a local cleaning station were open to the young, inexperienced birds, eager for an easily gotten meal. It takes experience and maturity to get your living from the cold waters of the North Pacific and these birds, fresh from the nest, rely on bays and sheltered coves as training ground for a life at sea. Used to being fed by their parents, it is an easy switch to scavenging and begging. Securing the fish-waste bins was the first step toward solving the problem. […]
[…]fish beneath the sky expose their dreams to fly. The Osprey (Pandion haliaetus), the Fish hawk, an easily observed raptor who plunge-dives feet first from the sky to catch fish, lifting themselves and their prey straight back into the sky. A familiar sight: one of these large, long-winged birds carrying a trout or a perch, or any other of the over 80 species of fish that make up nearly all of their diet.(1) We don’t often see these birds in care. When we do, often we are only able to help them out of this world due to the severity […]
[…]national monuments, and wildlife refuges) number in the hundreds. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife deemed this effort to be too costly and devised a method to reduce the number of individual protected areas. The Department’s proposed method of implementation is to create two zones, northern and southern, outside of which all Bobcat trapping would be banned, reducing the number of protected areas by a factor of ten from over 300 to just over 30. At the meeting of the FGC in Van Nuys last December, CDFW staff stated that even with the number of sites in need of […]
[…]City harbormaster has been very supportive in our effort to resolve this problem. Lids on the fish waste bins and signs at the cleaning stations appear to have stemmed the problem. All the contaminated birds from Crescent City have been stabilized and cleaned. Because the Oiled Wildlife Care Network opened their facility at Humboldt State University for our use we were able to wash 25 contaminated birds there. BAX is very appreciative of the assistance that the OWCN and HSU provided. Their help made this response much easier. All of the patients in care from this incident are now housed […]
[…]in the service of avarice, which is what Bobcat trapping amounts to, be protected and enshrined in Fish and Game code? The third option, which was brought to the table at the aforementioned December meeting, is the only responsible action possible that will meet both the requirements of the Bobcat Protection Act and provide good husbandry of our limited resources. The Bobcat Protection Act makes explicit (sec 4155, (b)(2), (e), (f)) the Fish and Game Commission’s authority to implement this law and “impose additional requirements, restrictions, or prohibitions related to the taking of bobcats, including a complete prohibition on the […]
[…]permission from the NPS, although we’ve been invited to go out there with a commercial smelt fisher who doesn’t want the fisheries to take the rap for these injured Pelicans. This person has described what is likely to be feather lice as the culprit, and also believes these pelicans are somehow “tame.” He described them as suicidally diving into rough surf and being thrashed to the beach. Other fishers have described Brown Pelicans attacking their boats and “stealing” their anchovies. We expect to start washing these birds tomorrow here at HWCC. While we were initially prepared for the idea of […]
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[…]with this resource should be easy and mutually beneficial. Pelicans in the spray of fish waste, Crescent City 2012 So far, there are no clear indications of what might happen this year. The discharge pipe that poured ground fish onto the waiting heads and backs of recently fledged pelicans in Shelter Cove still operates although now the pipe is submerged. It remains to be seen if this will be an effective solution. One thing is clear – it cannot be as effective as simply ending the practice of dumping what Cal EPA regards as sewage into state waters.
November 2012, […]
[…]the critical needs of wild animals. Some policies are easy to enact, like putting on lid on the fishwaste bins so that juvenile Pelicans can’t forage in them, while other solutions require changing hearts and minds, like banning cruel traps, stopping abominations like bear hounding and killing contests and promoting use of nonlethal measures instead of senseless slaughter to protect property from damages caused by wild animals. Advocacy work can be problematic. Political divisions are readily apparent when you attend a public meeting. Advocating for wild animals automatically puts on one side of the aisle and on the other side […]
[…]and what has been accomplished to prevent this problem here and here and here) The Northcoast Fish Waste response had several positive outcomes: first we released 80% of our patients – 4 out of 5 impacted Pelicans were returned to their wild lives! Second, as seen at the links provided above, major improvements to public fishing infrastructure radically reduced the potential for injury to Pelicans and other wild animals. Third, we were able to use and demonstrate that more environmentally conscious soaps can be used to clean wildlife, and that the soap we used also reduced stress suffered by our […]
[…]across the oceans are in trouble, of course. Rising sea temperatures, plastic pollution, over-fishing, agricultural waste run-off, acidification are all wreaking havoc on the marine environment and the health of Mother Earth. So, we got the fish that our suppliers could deliver: River Smelt, known here on the Northwest coast as Eulachons. Eulachons are a very nutritious fish, with twice as many calories as Night Smelt. They are also bigger. Not so big that they can’t be swallowed whole by a Western Grebe (see video below) but five times larger than night smelt. Mathematically, it’s easy to see how Eulachons […]
[…]steps as nearly 200 birds admitted to care center The Times-Standard 7/29/2012 Pelicans and fish waste don’t mix Oiled Wildlife Care Network (blog) 7/28/2012 Brown Pelicans in Trouble! The EcoNews, Northcoast Environment Center 7/2012 Déjà Rescue The North Coast Journal 7/19/2012 Brown Pelicans dying from fish oil contamination; Humboldt nonprofits rescue 70 birds, more expected Redwood Times 7/17/2012 Fish scraps are deadly to birds, officials warn Del Norte Triplicate 7/16/2012 Brown pelicans dying from fish oil contamination The Times-Standard 7/14/2012 From Humboldt Wildlife Care Center: Pelicans Dying, Again UPDATED Lost Coast Outpost 7/12/2012 What We Can Learn From Starving Pelicans […]
[…]means that a spill the size of the recent Refugio spill would generate around a million pounds of waste. Those numbers don’t even include the enormous amount of waste generated during the cleaning and rehabilitation of oiled wildlife, but I image the ratio is the same, or maybe even more. Anyone who has worked a spill lately has seen the barrels full of empty Dawn bottles, mountains of waste from food, water bottles, packaging, gloves and PPE. I don’t even want to talk about the water. All of it amounts to incredible amount of waste when there are a lot […]
[…]released 3 months later. photo Laura Corsiglia/BAX visit Project Coyote California Department of Fish and Wildlife California Fish and Game Commission Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife new definition of terms for California Fish and Game Code Adaptive management means management that improves the management of biological resources over time by using new information gathered through monitoring, evaluation, and other credible sources as they become available, and adjusts management strategies and practices to assist in meeting conservation and management goals. Under adaptive management, program actions are viewed as tools for learning to inform future actions. Credible science means the best […]
[…]out of our very small facility in Bayside. Trying to get the discharge pipe that was spewing fish waste into the water of Shelter Cove stopped was very frustrating. While some modifications were made, the outflow continued. It wasn’t until Brown Pelicans left the area and headed north that the contaminations stopped. (read about our 2012 efforts) The discharge pipe at Shelter Cove – July 2012 (photo Daniel Corona/Bird Ally X) Dead contaminated Brown Pelican – July 2012 (photo: Drew Hyland/Bird Ally X) Brown Pelican released at Shelter Cove, September 2011 (photo: Laura Corsiglia/BAX) Now, two years later, we are […]
[…]put in place in regional harbors to prevent birds continuing to suffer contamination with oily fish waste. Thank you to the many community members who stepped up to help these pelicans make it back to live their wild lives. Documentary Film Some of our work in the North Coast Fish Waste Incident is dramatically featured in the documentary film Pelican Dreams, directed by Judy Irving of Pelican […]
[…]bird” was ours no more. Now s/he was her own bird, just as s/he always had been. Looking of fish A colleague! An adult in background A fish for a youngster? Happy wildlife caregivers enjoying the beauty of their work An adult Brown Pelican does a flyby Sandpipers on the wing across the Jaws Your help is needed. The specialized care that seabirds require is made possible by your contribution. Please help us help wild wild animals in distress. Give today. all photographs: Laura Corsiglia/Bird Ally […]
[…]we’d rescued, cleaned and rehabilitated over 50 Pelicans who’d been contaminated by fish waste. Fish waste going directly into the ocean at the public boat launch in Shelter Cove, California. Brown Pelicans and other birds were contaminated directly by this unorthodox waste disposal. In order to meet that challenge, Bird Ally X partnered with the local wildlife care center, who we’d been assisting in small ways for years. With the facility they had in Bayside, we built the necessary infrastructure to take care of aquatic birds in Humboldt County – allowing for the first time in HWCC history for injured […]
[…]than adults, so our patient no longer needed to grow, only learn. We provided a pool with live fish fso the Heron could learn to hunt, an aviary big enough for improving flight, and perches and grasses so that the heron’s inherited desire to hide could be satisfied. After three weeks, the young bird was eating all the fish we offered and had lost the last of the downy nestling feathers. All that was left was release. We released the Green Heron into excellent habitat not far from the original nest site. It’s quite possible that the bird’s parents and […]
[…]the Heron was housed in our largest flight aviary. We set up a small pool with live gold fish. These birds are expert fishers and this one needed to learn the trade. S/he quickly became very proficient at snagging the quick fish from the water. After 6 weeks of care, the bird was flying, fishing, and demonstrating a seething hatred for humans: each of these a crucial part of surviving the modern world. The young Heron was released at the Arcata Marsh, where the colony where s/he entered the world roosts year round. Your support makes rescue of birds like […]
[…]spills, harmful algal blooms (often caused by agricultural “run-off”, sewage, fish waste. The wounds we’ve seen look like predator bites. Our working hypothesis is that sea lions are hunting these birds for food, or what seems more likely is that these grebes were bitten while pursuing fish in the same school with sea lions. There is precedent for marine birds injured by Sea lions while foraging. Whatever the case, currently we have no direct observations or conclusive results. The prognosis for the two birds in care is hopeful. While their wounds are severe they are healing and all other aspects […]
[…]issue swept under the rug. The most important point is that this crisis was caused by improper fish waste disposal that can be tracked directly to the discharge pipes and infrastructure at Shelter Cove and Crescent City. The harbor districts with jurisdiction over these cleaning tables had been made aware of this problem the previous year. Yet nothing was done in the intervening months before the Young of the Year Pelicans arrived this summer. Federal law prohibits harming Brown pelicans and other wildlife. State law prohibits discharging any substance harmful to fish, plants, birds or mammals into any State water. […]
[…]reduce the number of injuries to marine birds at boat launches and fish cleaning stations due to fish waste. There only a few hours left in 2012 for your contribution to help aquatic birds and the people who care for them to be tax-deductible this year. Our work for 2013 will depend on your support. Thank you for being a part of our accomplishments in 2012, we look forward to continuing these efforts and more in 2013. In alliance with wild birds and all wildlife,Wishing you a joyfulNew Year, Monte Merrickco-Director Bird Ally […]
[…]look like much, but this tiny concrete river is where the orphaned raccoons in our care learn to fish! Check out this video from last year of one of our released raccoons immediately catching a fish within her first minutes of freedom! A very young Opossum about to be fed replacement formula. Soon she’ll be weaned. Opossums grow up fast! In just a few more weeks she’ll be released to her wild and free life! Osprey uses new feathers to fly in our aviary. It won’t be long before we make the trek back to Lewiston Lake, where this intense, […]
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[…]year somewhere near this number. By about a 100 patients over 2012, the year we treated 250 fish waste impacted Brown Pelicans, 2019 is the busiest year ever in our 40 year history, and we had no huge emergency as we did in 2012 – this is just day to day work, answering the phone, going on rescues, treating those injured and orphaned wild neighbors that our human neighbors found in their yards, their basements, the beaches and the highways. Also in 2019, BAX rescued over 250 wild ducks sickened by another avian botulism outbreak on the Lower Klamath Refuge […]
[…]final report on the work we did for the Kure/Stuyvesant Trustee Council related to to fish waste contaminated wildlife, specifically juvenile Brown Pelicans on the Redwood coast in […]
[…]added excellent people to our crew. Lucinda Adamson, who was an intern during our second fish waste Pelican crisis in 2012 is now the Assistant Wildlife Rehabilitation Manager. Stephanie Owens, who began as a volunteer in 2014 is now a staff rehabilitator. Ruth Mock is volunteer coordinator. Recent additions to our permanent gang, who recently completed internships, Brooke Brown who works with our humane solutions program for co-existing with our wild neighbors, and Desiree Vang, another recently graduated intern who is helping us with our membership data and other administrative tasks. Both continue to work in animal care in the […]
[…]ago this week that Bird Ally X teamed with Humboldt Wildlife Care Center to rescue over 50 fish waste contaminated juvenile Brown Pelicans found at the public fish cleaning stations at Crescent City and Shelter Cover, on California’s beautiful and rugged Redwood Coast. What began as an emergency response developed into a permanent partnership, with Bird Ally X and HWCC merging into one organization. This began an intense period of infrastructure building. We’ve added seabird pools, a pelican aviary, a raptor aviary, raccoon housing, other small mammal housing, a waterfowl aviary, renovated our songbird aviary, and more! We have a […]
[…]in a wildlife rehab setting are regulated by state agencies, such as the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, or the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, etc. The state agency will have a fish and game code that dictate what is allowed in wildlife rehabilitation facilities. Included in this code is a Memorandum of Understanding, a set of rules for wildlife rehab conduct that were written in order to ensure that the practice is as ethical as possible. See an example of the California Memorandum of Understanding here: https://www.nativeanimalrescue.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/MOU-2020-2023-CA-Dept-of-Fish-and-Wildlife.pdf The National Wildlife Rehabilitators Association and the International Wildlife Rehabilitation Council: […]
[…]this book!” – Erica Miller, DVM, Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research Poster: Fish waste/Bird safe marina poster Poster suitable for Marinas, Boat Launches, Fishing Docks, wildlife rehabilitation centers and other places At-a-glance information on keeping wildlife safe from the deleterious effects of the oily waste that comes from cleaning catch. size 11″ x 17″ Designed by BAX and made possible by a grant from the Kure Stuyvesant Trust, this poster is available for FREE while supplies last. Available either on paper or on vinyl for durable outdoor use. Shipping and handling to be paid by the orderer. Request a poster […]
[…]campaign that does not include an educational message seems to me a waste of time and materials, a waste of your consideration. So we are scrupulous that our appeals to our community for support also carry practical messages regarding co-existence, regarding information on injured wildlife, and regarding the ways that we can make our collective voices heard to impact policy or procedure (or the status quo) when these things are killing wild neighbors or causing any to suffer. In strictly practical terms, our clinic staff is very occupied with our clinic work – we can’t work on unrelated tasks […]
[…]fish! 2016 on our coast was a bad year for Common Murres. There simply hasn’t been enough fish. Lack of fish, leads directly to fewer young seabirds. Common Murres are long lived and can absorb the occasional bad year. If fish populations recover, so will they recover. But current conditions don’t seem to be signs that we are living in a time of recovery. Agricultural runoff introduces nitrogen in to the sea which increases the frequency of harmful algal blooms. Plastics and other garbage pollutants wreak havoc on the food chain. Overfishing depletes the ocean of the resources which all species depend […]
[…]is possible because of mutual aid between wildlife rehabilitators, help from agencies like the US Fish and Wildlife Service and CA Dept of Fish and Wildlife, and most importantly, your support. Your donations pay for everything we do! Food, medicine, appropriate housing – all of the critical elements to these birds’ happy outcome is the direct result of your donation. We are a very small organization with a huge task to do. Please give what you can today! All photos: BAX/Laura […]
[…]Grebes get back on water – a must if they are to survive. Each bird eats about a pound of fish a day. Some tossed fish encourage our patients’ appetite while in the stressful captive environment. Fortunately Western grebes are highly social and prefer to be with others. Once healthy, the young birds are released into Humboldt Bay, where many species of prey-fish are abundant. Thanks to community support we have released 18 of these birds back into the wild. We still have 14 Western Grebes in care who need you to help cover the costs of their ongoing treatment. […]
We’ve fallen behind in reporting on our hectic Summer season, due in part to the global coronavirus pandemic, and also to our sudden huge increase in patients over previous Summers. So let us take a breath, slip away from the clinic and our never-ending tasks and catch you up with some of our cases and releases from over the hectic baby season. Here’s a little tune to accompany you. There is no getting around that 2020 has been a very difficult year, for our clinic, for our staff, for our community, for our nation, for the world. Yet, in these […]
[…]that while the forests of Concord had been mowed down that at least, “men cannot fly and lay waste the sky as well as earth,” yet here we are 150 years on and the naiveté of that sentiment, that somehow the sky would be safe, is little more than a tragic joke. The fight to protect the air, the sea, the land – to preserve these necessary things – we were hardly near winning before last year, but now it’s impossible to not fear the naked aggression against the natural world on current display. It’s been reported that the tax […]
[…]especially in our times, when ocean health is in a critical state. Over-fishing, agricultural waste run-off, plastic pollution, derelict fishing gear and the great onrushing disaster of climate chaos make the already challenging ocean into a rapidly unfolding disaster. When our staff arrived at the beach in Manila, they quickly found the bird, a juvenile Pacific Loon (Gavia pacifica), high up the beach above the line of wrack that marked the highest tide. Quickly scooping him up, they brought the young bird back to Humboldt Wildlife Care Center.HWCC volunteer heads back up the dune with a young Pacific Loon safely […]
[…]to ocean health. Common Murres are regular victims of oil pollution, derelict fishing gear, overfishing, agricultural runoff which can produce harmful algal blooms that coat prey fish in poison, and of course, the general industrialization of the sea. Because of these threats, Common Murres are regularly admitted into the many (but too few!) wildlife care facilities that are found along the Pacific Coast. Humboldt Wildlife Care Center is no exception. Each year approximately 3% of our patients (roughly 30 birds) are admitted for care. Half of these, typically, are juvenile birds who have become separated from their parents before they […]
[…]to discover the fish that we’d put in their housing with them. For piscivores in trouble, fish is a big part of the solution. For many patients, a small sample of blood can reveal a lot about their condition. Spinning the sample in a centrifuge separates the blood into cells and plasma, revealing the percentage that is red blood cells. This number is often called the “packed cell volume” or PCV. Red blood cells carry the oxygen that is part of the fuel of life – the lower the PCV, the more anemic the patient. While there is some variation […]
[…]these rules. Your voice is needed. Below is our letter to the FGC on behalf of Coyote. California Fish and Game Commission
Michael Sutton, President, Richard B. Rogers, vice-President Jim Kellogg, Jack Baylis, Jacque Hostler-Carmesin Dear Commissioners, Thank you for engaging in the hard work of bringing the will of Californians as expressed in Assembly Bill 2402 to bear on the California Fish and Game Code. BIrd Ally X fully supports the advances being made in our state’s relationship with, and regard for, our wild neighbors. The change in Californians’ appreciation for wildlife, wild lands, and wild systems over the decades […]