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The Bat Crisis of 2024

Articles, Bats, News, Rehabilitation, Release, Rescue

In July, a heat-wave with temperatures reaching 118 degrees had a deadly impact on a huge maternity roost of Mexican free-tailed bats located on the underside of a freeway overpass in Bakersfield. Surviving baby bats were dispersed to wildlife rescue centers across...

The Pelican Crisis of 2024: Just Feathers and Bones

News, Pelicans, Rescue

This April and May, in the middle of the busy baby season, hundreds of starving Brown Pelicans turned up weak and disoriented on our beaches. Whereas NAR normally handles 30 pelicans a year, this year, over 240 starving pelicans were brought to NAR. This newsletter...

What happens when three motherless baby barn owls arrive in Watsonville aboard a hay truck from Colorado?

Articles, News, Owls, Release, Rescue

On May 25, 2023, NAR received three baby barn owls that had traveled from Colorado to Watsonville hidden in a hay truck. They were about four weeks old. The next day, another baby barn owl of about the same age was brought to NAR from a construction site in Aromas....

From the Archives: Meet the Flockers 2004

Native Animal Rescue, Rescue, Reunification

By Art O’Sullivan From the December 15-22, 2004 issue of Metro Santa Cruz. Copyright © Metro Publishing Inc. Maintained by Boulevards New Media. Meet the Flockers It was back in April 1991 when I moved into the second-story, cavelike...

To Rescue or Not to Rescue, that is the Question

Articles, Deer, Fawn, News, Rescue, Reunification

Spring and summer are when most wildlife give birth and when Native Animal Rescue receives hundreds of babies. But do these babies really need to be rescued? Because wildlife parents make much better parents to their offspring than humans, we want to make sure these...

It’s Fawning Season. Think Before You Act!

Coexist, Deer, Fawn, News, Rescue, Reunification

Please be aware that spring is the prime birthing season for a wide variety of wildlife, including deer. Finding a fawn (baby deer) alone in the woods or a meadow is fairly common. Many people assume that young wildlife found alone are abandoned, helpless, and need...