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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
The Bat Crisis of 2024December 29, 2024
The Pelican Crisis of 2024: Just Feathers and BonesDecember 25, 2024
Why State Wildlife Officials Took a Mountain Lion Cub From the Wild … Then Put It BackJune 10, 2024
What happens when three motherless baby barn owls arrive in Watsonville aboard a hay truck from Colorado?January 24, 2024
