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Birding With Alligators

10,000 Birds

Alligators are often less aggressive towards humans than large crocodile species, a few of which (mainly the Nile and Saltwater Crocodiles) may prey on humans with some regularity. throughout the 70s, 80s, and 90s, but alligators killed 12 people from 2001 to 2007. There were only nine fatal attacks in the U.S.

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International Bird Rescue Believes “Every Bird Matters”

10,000 Birds

This 12,000 square-foot facility, completed in February 2001, is one of the two primary oiled bird facilities built by the Oiled Wildlife Care Network (OWCN) in California. link] This is where the washing of oiled birds takes place at the San Francisco Bay facility. They are transformed.”