Bird Rescue Remains On-Call in the Wake of Two Major Oil Spills
Within the past week, there have been two notable oil spills impacting the world. In Rotterdam, Netherlands, hundreds of swans and other birds were oiled when 7,000 gallons of heavy fuel oil spilled...
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Bird Rescue Celebrates 40 Years With Dawn, Procter And Gamble
No one wishes for oil spills. Not petroleum companies, and certainly not those of us who care about the environment. But spills do happen, and one particularly bad spill occurred in 1971 right outside...
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Seabirds Oiled By Natural Seep Along California Coast Flood Los Angeles Center
A Western Grebe oiled by natural seep is cleaned at the Los Angeles Wildlife Center. Photo: Bill Steinkamp Updated 3/4/2019 Since the beginning of 2019, more than 150 oiled seabirds coated in natural...
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Goleta/421 Pier Oil Release Spill Event: Anything Can Happen
Site of the spill in Goleta, CA near 421 Pier at Haskell’s Beach. On May 29, 2019 International Bird Rescue was activated for spill response by the Oiled Wildlife Care Network (OWCN) after...
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Since 1971: Researching and Innovating for the Future
If there is one thing that the 1971 San Francisco Bay oil spill taught us, it was that there was so much we needed to learn. In spite of the valiant efforts of volunteers and animal caretakers, the...
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Bird Rescue Stands Ready To Assist At Israeli Oil Spill
A lump of tar raised by a volunteer to clean the beaches near Nitzanim, Israel. CC Photo by ניבThis past weekend, we heard there’s been a large oil spill along the coastline of Israel. Perhaps not as...
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A Look Back at Exxon Valdez 1989 Oil Spill Response
Eagle washed of oil during Exxon Valdez spill response in 1989. Photo: International Bird Rescue This week is the anniversary of the Exxon Valdez tragedy. From our archives: we spoke with three of...
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Meet An Unusual Visitor: Oiled Common Raven
Common Raven got himself mixed up in some motor oil. Photos: International Bird Rescue At International Bird Rescue, we are known for our work caring for injured, orphaned, and oiled waterbirds, but on...
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Strong Evidence Supports Survival of Oiled Birds
Ten years after being cleaned of oil, Brown Pelican E80 has been spotted multiple times thriving in the wild. Photo in 2015 by Jean Pichler Whenever there is an oil spill, like the pipeline leak we...
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Good News: Oiled Snowy Plover Cleaned of Contamination
Rescued from Bolsa Chica Wetlands, this endangered Snowy Plover was washed of oil contamination. A clean Snowy Plover. A Snowy Plover has been cleaned of oil contamination after it was collected from...
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