We Give Thanks During Volunteer Appreciation Week

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This is Volunteer Appreciation Week and it reminds us that we appreciate our wonderfully helpful volunteers EVERY day!

Volunteers are a critical component of our 365 day a year bird care: They help feed our bird patients, keep clinics clean, run errands and perform some administrative duties.

Volunteers help cleanup a pond at our San Francisco Bay Center in April.
Top photo, Janille, a volunteer at our Los Angeles Center captures a Brown Pelican. Above, Volunteers help cleanup a pond at our San Francisco Bay Center in April. Photos by Bill Steinkamp and Cheryl Reynolds

Many of our volunteers have supported our “Every Bird Matters” efforts for more than 20 years!

During the Mystery Goo response this winter, we had more 300 volunteers that worked 5,000+ hours helping us rescue and rehabilitate the hundreds of seabirds that arrived at our San Francisco Bay Center.

We’re thankful to have volunteer help each day and without them the monumental task of caring for 5,000 injured, sick and orphaned aquatic birds at our two centers would be nearly impossible.

If you’d like to help, too, check out the upcoming volunteer orientations at both of our California centers: http://bird-rescue.org/get-involved/volunteer.aspx