Stephanie Burleigh sent this note and some photos from June's yard sale, which was another great success thanks to the efforts of many staff and volunteer members:

I just wanted to let you know that we raised $1,071.00 at the garage sale. Thank you for everything, Stephanie.

Watch for our next event in the later part of July! Until then, enjoy the summer!

From Wendy: Our incredible group of volunteers raised $1470 at our first "on site" yard sale. The people who came out to support us were very generous when they learnt that the proceeds were for the materials to build an outside flight for the small parrots. I shall purchase the materials this week when I am on the mainland, and then we can rally our new group of volunteers who want to do construction. One young man who came to the yard sale on Saturday is very excited about helping with this project, and he has experience with chain link fencing: a real bonus for the birds!

We have already received some great items for the next yard sale and promises of more to come! We are planning for Saturday, June 20, for the next yard sale. We need to raise enough funds for the second cockatoo flight. We have received nearly enough donations for the materials for the first macaw outside flight. Many generous people have donated on the website to the "Give Them Wings and Outside Flights" fund.

With all the love that is pouring in for these birds, we will soon be able to make their dreams come true.

Love from Wendy.

Santa Claus will be visiting the World Parrot Refuge December 6th and 13th (Saturdays). Come out and get your photo taken with the birds!

NOTE the corrected dates - the 6 and 13th are the first two Saturdays in December. See you then!

Visitors at the refuge this week included Brandon and his family from Red Deer, Alberta. As you can see he discovered an instant rapport with the birds!

Thanks for visiting!

This past weekend, Dixie and Sasha, along with Kiwi, Kelly and Esther represented the refuge at the Country Club Mall's annual "animal" day.

Dixie and Sasha got right into the spirit of the day with some beautiful face-paints. Kiwi's not too sure:

I wonder if Kelly and Esther would have wanted one too?

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!

Birds who are now partly sponsored, thank you!

Birds who are now fully sponsored, thank you!

"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)

"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.