Arriving every day. And now one local rescue center is desperately appealing to the public for help. John ramos has the story. Reporter this public open house at the International Bird rescue in fairfield almost didnt happen, but they decided to go through with it anyway, because they thought it was important for the public to understand the crisis theyre dealing with. The International Bird rescue center is accustomed to dealing with injured or sick birds, but what began slowly in april has suddenly become overwhelming. We were all going back and forth like is this a thing, is it not a thing. And then over the last four, five days things just kind of cratered. For the first time in ten year, this is the most pelicans ive seen here. Reporter brown pelicans are the birds you see at the beach skimming over to water in formation like a squadron of fighter plane, but lately theyve been found wandering in unusual places, unable to fly away from people. One bird that we have in care right no
The nation's oldest active park ranger hangs up her Smokey hat at 100 after she didn't start working for the National Park Service until age 84 to tell the
Betty Reid Soskin retired at the age of 100 on March 31 after serving more than 15 years as a park ranger. She was also once named California Woman of the year in 1995 for her civil rights activism.