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Avian Care Center & NurseryWhere Central Oregon's birds find sanctuary
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Dear Friends and Supporters,
With heavy hearts, we announce that Native Bird Care is temporarily closed, as we focus on the immediate work of recovery post-fire. Courageous firefighting crews worked tirelessly to save our main home and center, along with one of our key aviaries. However, we lost most of our outdoor facilities, one of which was an equipment and supply building, and aviaries and the property sustained severe damage.
Native Bird Care is housed on and part of a 40-acre wildlife conservation property. This landscape is a wildlife corridor as well as an incredible, diverse ecosystem that provided homes for a wide array of wildlife. We have seen 100 elk traverse the property, migrating to their winter/summer grazing lands. A mother bobcat has lived on this land for years, we just saw her and her kittens on a wildlife cam a couple days before the fire. Deer are always here, as are coyotes and an occasional mountain lion. Skunks and snakes (whip, garter, gopher, and rattlers). Frogs, skinks, lizards are here too.
For birds, there have been many, from tiny pygmy nuthatches and lesser goldfinch to the Golden Eagles that nest in the canyon. Here's a quick list: 4 species of woodpecker: flicker, hairy, white-headed, downy. 3 species of nuthatch: white-breasted, red-breasted, pygmy. Chickadees, black-headed and evening grosbeak, robins, Townsend's solitaire, western bluebird, olive-sided flycatchers, pinyon and Steller's jays, mourning doves, CA quail, turkey, GO and pygmy owls, sharp-shinned and Cooper's hawks, kestrels, and of course ravens and magpies. That's the short list. Migration sees a whole lot more.
Rehabilitation will mean something new to our work as we will need to recover the land and the facilities. Arid landscapes need help from humans to recover - reseeding and weeding mainly. For the center, we will need new aviaries and to replace all the equipment that made the center run (for pools, aviaries, enclosures, supplies).
Since one aviary was saved and the main center just needs a good cleaning, we plan to reopen mid-winter (or sooner). When we do, it will be with renewed strength and purpose. In the meantime, if you would like to help us with our restoration efforts and habitat/landscape recovery, please donate. You may donate directly to Native Bird Care through PayPal or by mailing a check. We also set up a GoFundMe account. Find links on our donations page.
Thank you for your compassion, patience, and understanding during this challenging time. We will keep you updated as conditions improve and plans evolve.
With gratitude and hope,
The Native Bird Care Team
With heavy hearts, we announce that Native Bird Care is temporarily closed, as we focus on the immediate work of recovery post-fire. Courageous firefighting crews worked tirelessly to save our main home and center, along with one of our key aviaries. However, we lost most of our outdoor facilities, one of which was an equipment and supply building, and aviaries and the property sustained severe damage.
Native Bird Care is housed on and part of a 40-acre wildlife conservation property. This landscape is a wildlife corridor as well as an incredible, diverse ecosystem that provided homes for a wide array of wildlife. We have seen 100 elk traverse the property, migrating to their winter/summer grazing lands. A mother bobcat has lived on this land for years, we just saw her and her kittens on a wildlife cam a couple days before the fire. Deer are always here, as are coyotes and an occasional mountain lion. Skunks and snakes (whip, garter, gopher, and rattlers). Frogs, skinks, lizards are here too.
For birds, there have been many, from tiny pygmy nuthatches and lesser goldfinch to the Golden Eagles that nest in the canyon. Here's a quick list: 4 species of woodpecker: flicker, hairy, white-headed, downy. 3 species of nuthatch: white-breasted, red-breasted, pygmy. Chickadees, black-headed and evening grosbeak, robins, Townsend's solitaire, western bluebird, olive-sided flycatchers, pinyon and Steller's jays, mourning doves, CA quail, turkey, GO and pygmy owls, sharp-shinned and Cooper's hawks, kestrels, and of course ravens and magpies. That's the short list. Migration sees a whole lot more.
Rehabilitation will mean something new to our work as we will need to recover the land and the facilities. Arid landscapes need help from humans to recover - reseeding and weeding mainly. For the center, we will need new aviaries and to replace all the equipment that made the center run (for pools, aviaries, enclosures, supplies).
Since one aviary was saved and the main center just needs a good cleaning, we plan to reopen mid-winter (or sooner). When we do, it will be with renewed strength and purpose. In the meantime, if you would like to help us with our restoration efforts and habitat/landscape recovery, please donate. You may donate directly to Native Bird Care through PayPal or by mailing a check. We also set up a GoFundMe account. Find links on our donations page.
Thank you for your compassion, patience, and understanding during this challenging time. We will keep you updated as conditions improve and plans evolve.
With gratitude and hope,
The Native Bird Care Team
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Habitat Tips: Coming Soon
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