Save Our Seabirds - Sarasota, Florida
Save Our Seabirds helps rescue and rehabilitate injured Florida Seabirds, especially those birds in Sarasota and Bradenton, Florida. Save Our Seabirds is located at 1708 Ken Thompson Parkway, Sarasota, Fl, 34236. Visit saveourseabirds.org. More than 150 birds reside on their three-acre site.
Donation Drive Success for Save Our Seabirds in Sarasota
My small part to help our wildlife and one of the many organizations that dedicate their time to protect our precious Florida resources and feathered neighbors.
One small step to help SOS to prepare for the oil coming to our shores.
Save Our Seabirds on Animal Outtakes with Marsha Panuce
Florida's Coastal Treasures - Our Seabirds
While photographing Gulf Coast Seabirds over the past several months, the BP disaster unfolded before our very eyes. With the world watching, here is what is at stake! Beautiful gentle creatures that now depend on our actions to save their lives. We invite you to view this show to experience the wonders of our natural treasures...
A Flock of Seagulls appears in North Georgia
unusual climate related behavior observed in a flock of gulls that seemed lost over 240 miles from the nearest ocean. Ellijay, Gilmer County, GA
Brown Pelican Rescue
I went searching for Ospreys and found this young brown pelican hooked and tangled in fishing line. Time for a quick rescue!
Toxic Waters | Changing Seas
Florida experiences many types of harmful algal blooms, some of them annually. Several species of algae, like sargassum, aren’t toxic, but can cause economic and environmental stress when they pile up on beaches and clog up coastlines. Others, like red tide and blue-green algae, release neurotoxins, causing massive wildlife kills and affecting beachgoers.
While residents demand answers from their local and state officials, scientists are studying what causes the blooms in the first place and what needs to be done to stop them. Experts are also uncovering alarming evidence that some of these harmful algal blooms have serious impacts on human health, making their research more critical than ever.
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ALL KINDS of sea birds PARALYZED and DEAD around SARASOTA
Dead swans waking up Southwest Florida news rooms? Now asking asking could it mean the dispersants are here? Perhaps they've also found out about the 173 ppm oil in the sand at nearby Siesta Key.
What is making swans sick?, Fox 13 Tampa Bay, September 23, 2010:
Transcript Excerpts
Dr. Geoffrey Gardner, a [world renowned] Lakeland swan expert, is facing the challenge of a lifetime. Something is killing the seabirds and swans on Long Boat Key...
Our concern is that it may be coming from toxins in the waters, something coming from the dispersants that might have been used for the Gulf oil spill, Gardner told FOX 13 on Thursday.
The birds started getting sick and dying two months after the spill.
[W]ildlife rehabbers who discovered the problem are concerned because they have been seeing an alarming number of gulls and terns die lately.
Left out of transcript by the Fox 13 website:
Transcript Summary
Sea birds and swans sick and dying from a mystery illness has investigators worried tonight. They want to know if the sick birds off longboat key have anything to do with the BP oil spill. If it does that could be bad news for other kinds of area wildlife as well.
What's attacking the birds and swans on Longboat Key?
Concerns that it's toxins in the water or dispersant used in oil spill.
Swans started getting sick 2 months after spill and they're not the only ones dying. So are all kinds of sea birds, gulls, terns and more. Rehabbers are worried because they can't save these birds like usual. 65 have been lost in a little over a month... you know there's a problem.
The symptoms are all the same, but could not diagnose the problem.
Would would the birds become weak gt paralyzed and just drop dead.
The symptoms and duration are unusual...
It's a matter of life and death...
Could it mean the dispersants are here?
Mockingbirds Unable to Chase Away An Osprey
Description
Red Tide affecting seabirds in Sarasota County
Red tide has killed 15 bottlenose dolphins in Sarasota County and now seabirds are being killed as well.
Brown Pelican
Brown Pelican
Ring-billed Gull. Brownsville, Texas.
Recorded at Brazos Island State Park, Brownsville, Texas on 2016-12-17
Larus delawarensis,
Gaviota pico anillado, gaviota de Delaware, (Spanish)
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Just Snowy, Me and Some Gulls
This young lady is part of the Snowy Owl invasion of 2013-14 and was kind enough to spend 45 minutes with me on Gooseberry Island this morning as she changed hunting lookouts five times. While someone had been there ahead of me, while I took these pictures there was no one else around - a special solitude with a special visitor from the north! The two times she choose a dune near the beach every gull for about 400 yards took off and left town! These magnificent birds have a wonderful air of mystery about them - as well as a special dignity. I am assuming this one is a female, but it's very hard to be sure. The young are speckled - the females more speckled than the males generally. The music is Eine Kleine Nachtmusik Mozart - Columbia S. O, Bruno Walter 1985. I don't own the rights to it - I am just providing it here for entertainment. I own the pictures - I took them with a Canon D70 and a 400mm Canon prime lens.
Bird sanctuary in Sarasota Bay.
via YouTube Capture
The Celery Fields on Palmer Ave, Sarasota, Florida
In the last 4 days, the ponds have been filled with all the larger wading birds & many smaller ones. The ducks are all starting to arrive. It's awesome.
542 Ohio Place Tour
360 degree video tour of 542 Ohio Place in Sarasota FL.
Lifestyles Of The Wet And Muddy
To license this clip go to Two laughing gulls fight with clasped beaks.
Laughing Gull (Larus atricilla) Sunny Isles Beach Miami 30 6 2017 Antonio Silveira
VisitSarasota.org: the Celery Fields with the Sarasota Audubon Society
The Celery Fields spans more than 400 acres and is Sarasota County's primary flood mitigation zone. The location and its wetlands are ideal for bird-watching and recreational use. The area is located east of Interstate 75 off Fruitville Road.
Music by Josh Woodward. Courtesy of FreeMusicArchive.org