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State-of-the-art
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In 2001, the International
Bird Rescue Research Center, a key partner in California's
Oiled Wildlife
Care Network (OWCN), helped open two new oiled wildlife care
and educational facilities in California.
The first to open, the San Francisco Bay Oiled
Wildlife Care and Education Center, is located in Cordelia,
California at the northern end of San Francisco Bay. This
facility contains IBRRC's new headquarters and the International
Training Center for Oiled Wildlife Response.
The second center was built in Southern California
at San Pedro, California. The IBRRC programs offer individuals
and organizations, dedicated to oiled wildlife response, an
opportunity to gain hands-on and practical experience in oiled
wildlife care and response.
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Common
murres in cold water pools.
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This 10,000 square-foot facility has the capacity
to house up to 1,000 oiled birds during one event and also
houses IBRRC's local education program and our ongoing aquatic
bird and mammal rehabilitation program. A 2,000 square-foot
adjoining building is devoted to office space for IBRRC staff,
a research library, training and education.
The oiled wildlife building contains rooms devoted
to intake, food preparation, surgery, necropsy, a wash and
rinse room with 12 stations, and walk in freezers capable
of storing up to a ton and a half of fish.
Built on three acres of land bordering the Suisun
Marsh, the outdoor areas have cold water pools and warm therapy
pools. With aviaries of different sizes will allow recuperating
birds to be in natural light.
The San Francisco Bay Oiled Wildlife Care &
Education Center is located just south of Fairfield near Interstate
80 and 680. This facility is one of a series being constructed
throughout the state of California by OWCN to provide best
achievable care to oiled wildlife.
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