From April–october every year, SBWCN receives an influx of orphaned a patients in need of safe harbor.
From early spring through summer, hundreds of orphaned and injured wild babies come through our doors - songbirds, squirrels, raccoons, skunks, ducklings, hummingbirds - each needing warmth, nutrition, medications, and constant care to survive. Meanwhile, our phone never stops ringing: nests destroyed by pruning, pelicans tangled in fishing line, wildlife struck by cars, orphaned young left behind. These animals are not often casualties of nature - they are casualties of the world we have built. Without intervention, they do not survive.
75+
species of injured and orphaned babies are rescued, rehabilitated, and released through SBWCN. The majority of these come in through the spring and summer months.
250
dedicated volunteers per week are needed to keep up with baby season care: special diets, cleaning, medications, enrichment are all necessary tasks to help our patients thrive.
$543
is the average cost of a single baby through their care, convalescence and release at SBWCN.
