The Need

There are many days when we receive 100 or more requests for help... A great blue heron entangled in a trail of fishing line connected to the hook embedded in its stomach...helpless baby hummingbirds clinging to their nest - still attached to the branch that was cut out of a tree...a kestrel shot through it's chest, found starving because it could no longer hunt...a cactus wren caught by a cat with freshly ripped flesh exposing shattered bones...

Concerned callers, bird in hand, are desperately seeking assistance. Our volunteers are responding to calls 16 hours per day, seven days a week - coordinating rescue and transport, acquiring new arrivals day and night, preparing food and medical treatments, suturing wounds, splinting and bandaging fractured bones and feeding nestlings every 30 minutes.

Local wildlife and humane agencies regularly refer callers with problem situations to For the Birds. Someone has a bird trapped in their chimney, someone is finding poisoned birds in their neighborhood, someone encounters a woodpecker drilling holes in their house...Someone has to help! Our volunteers work to humanely address and resolve such issues, saving many birds that would otherwise die.