Native Bird Care Of Sisters Oregon

Native Bird Care has two key goals. The first is the tangible goal of rescuing and rehabilitating wild birds, many of which are in decline. In conjunction, we work toward educating people about the challenges facing our wild birds today from localized impacts to overall global issues.

Overall, many of our songbird populations are declining, some of these precipitously. Our work contributes to these bird populations, offering tangible results toward their continuation. Every person matters, as does every bird. Because most bird impacts are human-related or caused, we believe it our ethical obligation to care for them when they are injured or orphaned. We address birds' suffering by treating or caring for them.

Educating the public is the other key goal for Native Bird Care. We teach people how to prevent wild bird injuries by addressing issues in their own yards and homes and participating in community changes that help save birds' lives.

Our wildlife today are innocent victims of exponential human expansion around the globe. It is our fundamental ethical obligation to help remedy what we have accidentally caused. Birds have incredibly challenging lives, they deserve to be cared for and helped when they are impacted.

People who rescue birds also have an opportunity to understand why the bird is in that situation. Often, rescuers reflect on the challenges faced by birds today and they gain an educational experience that cannot be replicated in any other way. Rescuing a bird that has been harmed by hitting a window on our home, and getting it to care can lead toward a real emotional desire on a person's part to do something to prevent the accident again. Our goal is to help with both: care for the bird and offer solutions for prevention.

Through rescue, people get first-hand exposure to the challenges facing birds. From learning the real damage a cat causes a bird when they "play" with it to how deadly the common storm drain is in which thousands of baby birds fall to starve to death each year. Cars, windows, lights at night, pesticides, outdoor cats, all can be mitigated by humans to help birds. When one has a personal experience saving a wild animal, they are more likely to care about their own impact and make changes to help. Every action counts; every bird matters.

We run an avian rehabilitation facility that meets best-practice standards. Education and solutions are offered to each bird finder, one-on-one, and through public presentations, articles, blog posts, Facebook posts, handouts, and the website.

We offer a complete care facility that addresses birds' injuries and includes everything from medical care to orphan care and development. We have specialized training in song, water, and shorebird care - three of the most challenging types of birds to rehabilitate. We have veterinarians for the severely injured, but also advanced training in the wound, fracture, and other injuries.

Native Bird Care's rehabilitation professional (who is licensed on the state and federal level) has over 13 years of training in managing bird injuries, husbandry, and specific species knowledge. For our educational programs, our director has over 30 years of environmental education to help support their programs and educational materials.

Native Bird Care has made great strides in being known to the community, regionally, and even nationally. Community members seek our advice on all sorts of bird-related issues, such as windows solutions, woodpecker exclusion, and bird feeders, along with the usual bird injury or rescue requests.

Our website alone receives a lot of traffic locally and nationally, and even internationally. We have been asked for consult on cases, for example, from people as far away as Australia. We have facilitated finding care for birds in Ontario, Canada, and Florida, but we also help those in the far reaches of Oregon who have no chance to get a bird to rescue.