Welcome to
SKYBIRD WILDLIFE CENTER
Serving the Greater Portland, Maine Area
Community • Wildlife Rehabilitation
✜Together Action is at the heart
of ecological stewardship✜
Welcome to our beginning
Who are we?
Skybird is a 501(c)(3) non-profit Wildlife Rehabilitation Center located in the beautiful and quaint Durham, Maine. We are a modern hub for clinical wildlife care, along with providing ecological activities for the greater community.
Currently, we are a team of professionals working hard to bring the wonderful vision of Skybird to fruition.
Mission
Every creature deserves another chance to fly or crawl free.
Skybird serves to rescue, rehabilitate, and release Maine’s wild birds, reptiles & amphibians, and select mammal species.
We dedicate our skills and knowledge to offer excellent and tender care to our wild citizens in need.
✜Who We Treat✜
Maine’s Wild Birds
Birds are critical to both local and global ecosystems, agriculture, and overall health of the planet. They are also simply beautiful, inspirational creatures we enjoy having around! Here at Skybird we view birds with a well-deserved reverence. Our expert team of veterinary professionals, wildlife rehabilitators, naturalists and general bird nerds are passionate about providing educated and thoughtful care to our wild bird patients. This means having in-depth knowledge of each species, and catering specifically to their specialized, niche needs as they heal or grow. It’s exciting to think about the creative possibilities to best suite their stay with us, so they are as vital as possible before returning to the wild.
Maine’s Wild Reptiles & Amphibians
So, we love turtles. Big time. These super ancient, one-of-a-kind shelled sentinels keep us humbled and in awe. Not only are they simply cool, turtles play vital roles in cross-ecosystem wellness; they are part of the clean-up crew, and remove and recycle waste. Their burrows are reused by mammals and their poop is ultra fertilizing and beneficial to soil, along with seed transportation. Either way, we’re here for turtles! A major goal of ours is to be Maine’s premier wild turtle rescue and rehab facility. This includes species-specific, specialized semi-terrestrial and aquatic pool habitats. These habitats can be modified depending on the individuals needs as they recuperate. We also love and readily admit snakes, and all amphibious critters as well- frogs, newts, toads, salamanders, and any slippery, slimy, shiny casualties. Understanding the delicate needs of “herptiles” (reptile & amphibians) is a specialty of ours.
Maine’s Wild Mammals
And last, but certainly not least, we intend to also provide the best and coziest care to select mammal species of Maine, including opossums, cottontail rabbits & hare, mice, and squirrels to start. These fuzzy and fast moving (except opossums, North America’s only marsupials!) are everywhere, and offer their gifts to the ecosystem year round- one example being prolific planters of trees and vegetation! We need them, and we’ll be here for them if the need arises. We have professionals on our team who have raised, sheltered, rehabbed and released wild mammals of all sorts, and we look forward to being a haven for a hare.
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Our Vision
Skybird has a vision of operating from bright, bustling, rehabilitative space that caters specifically to wild animals of Maine.
We are building a committed, harmonious team who provides care.
In addition to being a hub for wildlife rehabilitation, our long-term goal is to offer the Maine community opportunities of learning and engagement.
This will be through on-site natural spaces, an educational animal sanctuary, and other features that will highlight local ecology and conservation.
Work with us!
Skybird Wildlife Center is currently gathering a community of volunteers to help with our Turtle Rescue. Please contact us to participate.