Baby herons and egrets rescued after tree housing their nests splits in Oakland
Reporting from Oakland —
Dozens of baby herons and egrets have been rescued after their tree collapsed in Oakland, hurling them from their nests to the pavement.
International Bird Rescue says it got a call Wednesday after a ficus tree that was serving as a rookery split in half and partially fell.
Rescuers took the snowy egrets and black-crowned night herons to the group’s rescue center in the Bay Area city of Fairfield.
Some of the chicks are only days old.
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