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on another site im a member of has adopted a few rescued sea-birds from the Gulf oil spill & i wondered if anyone here would like to do the same here on UM ?

following images (AP photographer Charles Riedel © 2010) used under fair usage & none profit laws, no copyright infringement intended.

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Helping birds is our passion and now it can become yours, too. We welcome you to adopt one or more birds in care as part of IBRRC’s Adoption Program. When you adopt an orphaned duckling, heron, egret or endangered brown pelican, the bird you adopt wears a federal band with a number that identifies it as your bird.*

Adopting a bird for yourself or a friend is a wonderful way to give a gift of life to other bird lovers and help us continue helping our bird friends in need. We've had birds adopted as wedding presents, memorials of people, pets and special animals, birthday, Mother's Day, Father's Day, anniversary presents and celebrating the birth of a baby.

Your adoption package includes a beautiful certificate of adoption that includes the band number of your bird, place and date of release. Every adoption also includes an year long membership to IBRRC. IBRRC will not inundate you with mailings. We do quarterly updates via e-mail and invite you to e-mail us with questions or comments and hope you will visit our website often. It is full of information about us, our history, and our work around the world. We use the donations we receive to help fund our rehabilitation program. Your donation goes directly to animal care, not marketing programs.

Did you know that since 1972 IBRRC has banded over 50,000 birds? We have the word “research†in our name because the birds we band become lifetime subjects of study, and provide a great amount of data. IBRRC is one of only a few rehabilitation centers in the US that is part of the USFWS Federal Banding Program.

We began our adoption program in the summer of 2004, when we received over 100 juvenile brown pelicans at our San Pedro center. They were unable to find food and were starving. Knowing from past experience that each pelican we rehabilitate costs approximately $200, we decided to initiate an adoption program for this endangered species. It was so successful we quickly ran out of pelicans and had to start a waiting list!

A lot of mouths to feed

Every spring and summer our centers are filled with orphaned waterfowl and aquatic birds that have lost their parents for many different reasons. We all are aware that the loss of wetlands and problems with our oceans create incredible stress on birds trying to survive in habitats that continue to shrink due to urban sprawl.

Waterfowl are adaptable to certain human actions but loss of habitat and food sources mean many birds are forced into areas that are unsafe, or polluted. Mallard females who typically nest in the same area every year, may find what was once a wetland, is now a condo complex with swimming pools. She and her babies now face a host of dangers, including dogs, cats, and cars.

In 2007 we successfully raised and released over 1,200 orphan ducklings and 500 herons and egrets. In all IBRRC's two bird centers received nearly 4,000 birds for treatment. That’s a lot of mouths to feed!

*Note: Your sponsorship of a bird is to help raise and release each bird. You do not actually get to keep the bird.

there are different birds to adopt & varying prices, you get a certificate (the website does) & i think you can give the bird a name (im not 100% sure on this, the admin on the other site said they think you can) anyway anyone interested in doing this, the best way would be to donate money here on UM to Jono & PM him to say you have donated & how much so Jono can distinguish the money coming in to the site & he as UM owner can adopt the bird/s on the sites behalf.

anybody interested in doing this ?

http://www.ibrrc.org/adopt_a_bird.html

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on another site im a member of has adopted a few rescued sea-birds from the Gulf oil spill & i wondered if anyone here would like to do the same here on UM ?

What other site? :L

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