{"id":110,"date":"2018-08-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weebly-import-post-110"},"modified":"2026-06-17T01:43:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T01:43:24","slug":"please-donate-towels-to-support-our-adpp-program","status":"publish","type":"wingbeat","link":"https:\/\/sfbbo-test.twomoons.systems\/staging\/1924\/wingbeat\/please-donate-towels-to-support-our-adpp-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Please Donate Towels to Support Our ADPP Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph\"><strong>By Waterbird Lead Biologist Victoria Heyse<\/strong><\/div> <div><div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Picture\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sfbbo-test.twomoons.systems\/staging\/1924\/wp-content\/uploads\/weebly-migration\/victoria_1.jpg?ssl=1\"\/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u200bIt\u2019s hard to believe that the <a href=\"\/staging\/1924\/adpp\/\">Avian Disease Prevention Program<\/a> season is half over! From June through November, we patrol Artesian and Guadalupe Sloughs by boat for the cities of San Jose and Sunnyvale who are required to monitor for avian botulism in order to release treated fresh water from their facilities. During these weekly boat surveys, I am joined by one or two volunteers, who help me by scooping up all the dead vertebrates and sick or injured birds we come across.<br\/><br\/><span>We began monitoring the South Bay sloughs for avian botulism in 1982. Since then, there have been six large die-offs of waterbirds and &#8230;<\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<!--more-->\n\n  <div class=\"paragraph\">\u200bseveral smaller outbreaks, with the last outbreak occurring in 2004.The Clostridium botulinum toxin affects birds worldwide and spreads naturally in soils under suitable conditions (warm, brackish, shallow water, with low dissolved oxygen concentrations). It is ingested by birds either directly or indirectly (through invertebrates). By removing decomposing matter from the sloughs, we are helping to prevent a disease outbreak by reducing the \u201cfuel\u201d it needs to move through the system. It is also important to have eyes in the slough so that the appropriate actions can be taken ASAP (notifying USFWS, mobilizing more people, conducting more frequent surveys) if an outbreak is detected.\u00a0<\/div> <div> <figure class=\"wp-block-gallery wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sfbbo-test.twomoons.systems\/staging\/1924\/wp-content\/uploads\/weebly-migration\/pelican-2.jpg?ssl=1\"\/><\/figure><figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sfbbo-test.twomoons.systems\/staging\/1924\/wp-content\/uploads\/weebly-migration\/bill_1.jpg?ssl=1\"\/><\/figure><\/figure>\n<\/div> <div class=\"paragraph\">\u200bSo far this year, we\u2019ve removed over twenty Striped Bass and close to ten dead birds. We\u2019ve also captured and transported close to a dozen sick or injured birds to the Wildlife Center of Silicon Valley for care. While nearly all of these sick or injured birds have been immature gulls, some unusual recent captures included a Mallard and an American White Pelican with broken wings.<br\/><br\/>When capturing live birds, we make use of towels in order to safely handle the birds.\u00a0If you\u2019re interested in supporting this project, but can\u2019t come out on a boat survey, we\u2019re currently looking for towel donations. We could use a variety of sizes ranging from large dish towels (approx. 20in x 30in) to any size bath or beach towel. Cotton or microfiber towels are preferred over linen towels. Please bring any towel donations to our office in Milpitas. Used towels are great as long as they\u2019re dropped off clean!<br\/>\u00a0<br\/><em><strong>If you have any questions, are interested in volunteering for boat surveys, or would like to donate a towel, please contact Victoria Heyse at <a href=\"mailto:vheyse@sfbbo.org\">vheyse@sfbbo.org<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Waterbird Lead Biologist Victoria Heyse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1230,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":""},"class_list":["post-110","wingbeat","type-wingbeat","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Please Donate Towels to Support Our ADPP Program - San Fransisco Bay Bird Observatory<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sfbbo-test.twomoons.systems\/staging\/1924\/wingbeat\/please-donate-towels-to-support-our-adpp-program\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Please Donate Towels to Support Our ADPP Program - 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