SPCA Monterey County Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center has been receiving an influx of calls concerning seabirds washed ashore. This increase in rescues is likely due to inclement weather, higher winds, and rougher ocean conditions.
Rescued seabirds include loons, grebes, common murres, and scoters. They are emaciated, hypothermic, and wet. Some have oil on them due to natural oil seepage that can occur in Monterey Bay. Skilled SPCA wildlife rescue staff are providing fluids, medication, and nutrition to stabilize the birds. .
Many seabirds are not able to walk on land, and many are unable to take flight while not in the ocean. If you find a seabird beached in need of help, please safely contain the bird using a towel or blanket and a box that the bird can breathe in but not escape from. If you are unable to safely contain the bird, please stay with the bird and call The SPCA Wildlife Center directly at 831-264-5427 during normal business hours.
For more information please visit- www.spcamc.org. Your support makes rescues like this possible. Please always call the SPCA when you see injured or orphaned wild animals in need.
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The SPCA Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center has been the only full-service wildlife rescue and rehabilitation center in Monterey County since 1982, rescuing over 2,500 injured, sick, and orphaned wild animals every year. We operate under permits from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. They aren’t a chapter of any other agency and they don’t have a parent organization. Everything they do for local injured, orphaned, and sick wild animals is only made possible by you. To support their work, please visit www.SPCAmc.org/donate.
The SPCA for Monterey County is your nonprofit, independent, donor-supported humane society that has been serving the animals and people of Monterey County since 1905. The SPCA is not a chapter of any other agency and does not have a parent organization. They shelter homeless, neglected and abused pets and livestock, and provide humane education and countless other services to the community. They are the local agency you call to investigate animal cruelty, rescue and rehabilitate injured wildlife, and aid domestic animals in distress.
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