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Adopt-A-Bird

Put a little love in your heart by symbolically adopting a bird! They make the perfect gift for that special someone!
 
With your $50 tax-deductible gift, you’ll help provide expert care for injured and orphaned waterbirds. We’ll then mail you or your gift recipient an official adoption certificate featuring the bird you’ve adopted, along with a custom, personalized note!
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Black-crowned Night Herons are frequent patients, especially fallen nestlings from urban rookeries. Your support gives these birds expert care and a safe return to the wild.
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Brown Pelicans have become one of our most common patients as ocean health crises increase. Your support helps us treat, band, and release these iconic seabirds.
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Common Loons are powerful divers and among our most challenging patients due to their size and strength. Your adoption supports expert care that returns them safely to open water.
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Common Murres inspire our logo and mission. Every adoption helps us rescue, treat, and release these iconic seabirds when storms, spills, or strandings bring them ashore.
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Mallards are the most common birds admitted to our centers. Your support helps care for these resilient ducks when they’re orphaned or separated from their families.
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Western Grebes rarely come ashore, so those that do urgently need care. Your support helps us rescue, treat, and release these elegant, red-eyed divers back to open water.
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Adopt-a-Bird program with Western Gull Chick
Western Gulls arrive with everything from fishing-line injuries to pollution exposure. Your gift ensures these clever coastal birds get a second chance at life.
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By adopting a Western Snowy Plover, you help us treat and release a federally threatened shorebird whose entire Pacific Coast population is under 2,000 birds.
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Adopt-a-Night Heron

Black-crowned Night Herons are frequent patients, especially fallen nestlings from urban rookeries. Your support gives these birds expert care and a safe return to the wild.
Adopt-a-Night Heron

Adopt-a-Night Heron

Adopt-a-Pelican

Brown Pelicans have become one of our most common patients as ocean health crises increase. Your support helps us treat, band, and release these iconic seabirds.
Adopt-a-Pelican

Adopt-a-Pelican

Adopt-a-Loon

Common Loons are powerful divers and among our most challenging patients due to their size and strength. Your adoption supports expert care that returns them safely to open water.
Adopt-a-Loon

Adopt-a-Loon

Adopt-a-Murre Chick

Common Murres inspire our logo and mission. Every adoption helps us rescue, treat, and release these iconic seabirds when storms, spills, or strandings bring them ashore.
Adopt-a-Murre Chick

Adopt-a-Murre Chick

Adopt-a-Mallard Duckling

Mallards are the most common birds admitted to our centers. Your support helps care for these resilient ducks when they’re orphaned or separated from their families.
Adopt-a-Mallard Duckling

Adopt-a-Mallard Duckling

Adopt-a-Grebe

Western Grebes rarely come ashore, so those that do urgently need care. Your support helps us rescue, treat, and release these elegant, red-eyed divers back to open water.
Adopt-a-Grebe

Adopt-a-Grebe

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