In this special campaign spearheaded by supporters Tina, Andrew, & Elvis the Budgie, we are looking for 2500 wonderful people to commit to a regular monthly donation of $10 each, to help provide a strong funding base to carry the work of the World Parrot Refuge forward.

We realize that making a commitment for the full or half virtual adoption of a parrot can be difficult in these trying times - so Tina, Andrew, and Elvis came up with the idea of the For The Birds! Campaign. If you can spare $10 a month, you can become part of this important campaign to establish long-term funding for our parrot friends.

Click on the "Donate Now" button in the top right-hand corner of any page on the website, and select the "For The Birds! Campaign" as your fund designation. In this way, we can keep track of progress toward our goal of 2500 permanent monthly $10 supporters! Remember that your donation is tax-deductible, and CanadaHelps (the organization that securely processes our online credit card donations) will issue you with a tax receipt.

Click here to download a high resolution version of the poster in PDF format to put up (if permitted) at your school, workplace, or meeting place, to bring the work of the World Parrot Refuge to the attention of your friends and colleagues.

Thank you for your support to make this campaign a success! We will bring you further news on the For The Birds! Campaign as it progresses.

The beautiful campaign poster was made by Tina, Andrew, and Elvis. Thank you for taking the initiative to lead such an inspiring campaign on behalf of our parrot family!

As I sat down for the first time today and looked out of the window, I noticed that the flags were starting to rest too. The bright colourful rainbow fabric sails that flap so wildly during the day also needed to sleep. Sadly, resting will not help the flags to heal: the wind has shredded them this year. Maybe we should get some new ones. It seems to be such a short time since we bought them and proudly put them on display to show people where to find us. So much has happened since that week. In fact so much has happened since our last newsletter that I decided to try and pull it all together, so that others could glimpse the busy life we have here at the World Parrot Refuge.

Larry Neil, one of our special volunteers, erected all the steel piping and chain link fencing in the new Macaw House. He did an incredible job and stretched the fencing really tight. Even with cuts, bruises, and very sore hands he didn’t give up until it was finished. Thank you Larry from all of the humans here at the sanctuary. When the Macaws finally get in there, you will hear the cheers as far away as Victoria!

The newly constructed Macaw House, thanks to Larry Neil and Andy Breslin.

The next step is to get trees and branches for the compounds – especially arbutus. If anyone has some that they don’t want - we will be happy to put it to good use. We have a large number of Macaws all waiting to move into the new Macaw House - but we have to build forests first. We can use fallen trees of all kinds, except cedar. Parrots need to have family roosts to call their own. Each small flock that makes up the larger flock prefers their own special home in the forest.

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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.