World Bird Sanctuary

The World Bird Sanctuary’s mission is to preserve the earth’s biological diversity and to secure the future of threatened bird species in their natural environments. We work to fulfill that mission through education, captive breeding, field studies and rehabilitation.

Sunday, August 31, 2008

Just because...

this is the cutest video in the world, I had to post it. Here you see Cathy's African grey parrot, Simon, on vacation. Yes, he is on the...

Saturday, August 30, 2008

Adopt a Bird Spotlight: Lenore (African White Naped Raven)

Lenore's Story Species: African white naped raven Hatched: April 2001 Lenore was hatched at the World Bird Sanctuary's breeding faci...

Friday, August 29, 2008

Beak of the Week!

Victoria of Colorado, you are our weekly champion, having correctly identified the peregrine falcon. Congrats and keep up the good work out ...

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Don't Be A Dodo!

Here's a short video courtesy of Cathy of last week's Birds In Concert, complete with a dancing dodo, our fabulous in-house band The...

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Great Egrets

Written and photographed by Gay Schroer. Click on images to enlarge. In mid-April of 2007 we were vacationing in the Charleston, SC area and...

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

The Raptor Project

Last week's Birds In Concert featured our personal favorite band, The Raptor Project! The Raptor Project is WBS's in-house band and ...

Monday, August 25, 2008

Timber is molting!

The last time you saw Timber, our screech owl, he had just had a nice bath. In this video Timber is molting, which means his old feathers ar...

Sunday, August 24, 2008

One more last look at spring babies...

This video shows our very last babies of the season, European barn owls, being socialized for education programs. The education birds you me...

Saturday, August 23, 2008

One last look at spring babies

These are the last pictures I took of our eurasian eagle owl chicks from this year's hatch. As you know, we had a lot of owl chicks this...

Friday, August 22, 2008

Beak of the Week!

Woo hoo anonymous! Congratulations, you guessed last week's beak: the white-naped raven. Non-native species are tough ones, but once you...

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Birds In Concert tonight!

Just a reminder: there are two concerts remaining in this year's Birds In Concert series! Join us tonight at 7 PM for music and birds.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Our grey buzzard eagle...

I took some photos of Bud, our grey buzzard eagle, recently and thought he'd make a good subject for a blog post since he is celebrating...

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

What do visitors see?

Thanks to Cathy's videos, you can get a preview of some of what our visitors see when they come to the World Bird Sanctuary. Last week y...

Monday, August 18, 2008

Mischief the raven is a responsible bird

Mischief the white-naped raven is (after Niles) probably my favorite bird. I admire her intelligence, feisty attitude, and the way she lives...

Sunday, August 17, 2008

Tequila educates the humans...

Here is another bird from a recent weekend program, Tequila the harris hawk. At our weekend programs, visitors get the chance to see our bir...

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