Please come out to visit us! The parrots love visitors, and so do we!

Hours

We're open 10am to 4pm, every day of the year!

Admission Prices

Entrance tickets are purchased at the main desk in the gift shop. Prices do not include GST.

Adult: $12 + GST
Youth (13-17): $10 + GST
Children (6-12): $8 + GST
Children (5 and under): Free
Senior: $10 + GST
Best value:
Family Day Pass (2 adults and 2 children/youth): $30 + GST
Family Annual Pass/Annual Membership (tax-deductible and entitles purchaser and three immediate family members to unlimited admission for the year): $100

Location

Driving from Nanaimo, you'll find us on your left at 2116 Alberni Hwy, Coombs, just a kilometre before the Old Country Market with the famed "Goats on the Roof"!

Look for the giant parrot and rainbow-coloured flags and you won't miss us!

Please click on the thumbnails below to learn how you can help some special birds have a home for life through our "Virtual Adoption" program! More stories coming soon!

Birds who are now partly sponsored, thank you!

Birds who are now fully sponsored, thank you!

"This is, in a word, a great place and these miraculous creatures deserve no less, but few places can deliver it this well. It is, indeed, 'world class'."

– Stewart Metz (author and Director of the Indonesian Parrot Project), after his visit at the Grand Opening of the Refuge on August 13, 2005.

"The World Parrot Refuge is a true sanctuary where parrots live out their lives in a loving, spacious and happy environment under the guidance of extraordinarily caring people. The many visitors destined to pass through the refuge will come to understand that parrots are not toys or trophies, but beings with needs and emotions as real as our own."

– Rosemary Low (author of more than 30 books on parrots)