On July 25, a group of dedicated staff and volunteers got together in the baking sun to run a yard sale to help raise funds for the outdoor flights. As you can see from the pictures, our feathered spokespersons (Sydney, Kelly, Tutu, and Jackson) dressed up for the occasion and flocked around to help and have fun.

Our staff supervisor, Stephanie Martin, reports: Hello, just a little note to let everyone know that the Yard Sale brought in about $800.00. It is pretty good being that the weather was so hot! A huge THANK YOU, to all those that helped out!

Click on one of the images to see some more photos from the day, courtesy of Stephanie and Sasha.

Be sure to check out our new photo gallery, featuring the beautiful photos of staff member, Sasha Aubin. Thanks for sharing these great photos with us, Sasha!

Pictures of our staff and volunteers hard at work, with thanks to Lea Hoorn, who worked so tirelessly in our gift shop. Thanks Lea!

Thanks to the hard work of a few enterprising volunteers, our cockatoos are able to spend the last days of summer enjoying the sun in their very own outdoor flight! Not only did Larry and Anne Neil; and Doug, Val, and Erin Jones; raise the money for the flight by holding their own garage sale at Doug and Val's home (with the support of Quality Foods), but Larry and Doug worked many long days to construct the outdoor flight. Many thanks to these incredible people who love the birds so dearly, and to all the people who helped them to make this first flight a reality.

Doug and Peaches add the finishing touches

Larry and Rusty hard at work under the blazing sun!

Dale lends a hand with the outdoor flight

Perches in outdoor flight under construction

Sasha gives an interview as feathered supporters look on

Wendy helps shy birds take their first outdoor venture

Evo has the first taste of freedom

Happy to be in the sun!

Pictures from the successful garage sale!

Val and Doug, whose generosity made the garage sale possible

Larry helps set up goods for sale

Erin and Barney work the tent at the garage sale

Garage sale

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.