Wildlife Rescue Association of BC

We saved a sweet baby birdie from a hungry crow today!
It's couldn't quite fly, yet, and it clearly needed some care. Luckily, we heard its cry immediately on our back deck and we scared the crow away.
After it recovered from shock, we fed it some water through a medical droplet and it totally ate it all. What a cool experience, but we knew it was best to act fast and get it back with its mama, but at 230pm, & 33° unfortunately she was nowhere to be found.
In the meantime we called WILDLIFE RESCUE ASSOCIATION.
I spoke with Gabby. I heard in her voice, she wanted so badly to support this baby birdie, and she clearly cared SO much to want to support the situation.
When she called back as a courtesy, she explained that their support team is volunteer based, and that she's just waiting on a volunteer to respond to her request for assistance. We were warned that we may need to wait a bit, so;
PLEASE IF YOU ARE LOOKING TO VOLUNTEER FOR AN AMAZING CAUSE, PLEASE CONSIDER VOLUNTEERING FOR THE WILDLIFE RESCUE ASSOSIATION, (B.C.)
They are actually short staffed.
Today was so random for us.
We had deadlines to meet, but we were given a baby birdie that needed a random and caring team of ppl to work together for him.
They took as many details of mine relevant to the baby birdie so they could rehabilitate and release into the same place as soon as possible.
Thanks Gabby n' Sanjay for caring so much,
and volunteering your time for these random wildlife situations.
Together, we gave this Lil birdie a chance!
The most caring ppl we know, are the coolest ppl we know.
I'm so confident to leave this 5 star review today.

I can confirm that the negative reviews are 100% true.

A lot of people will be extremely disillusioned to hear this but I think it is important for everyone to know what is really going on at this wildlife refuge. It is hard to get the real story because they are so secretive. As a whistleblower it is my duty to steer everyone away from bringing any animals to this place. Even if the animal is dying, let him die peacefully in the wild. Don't torture him by putting him in a box only to spend hours or days in solitary confinement without food or water, waiting to be executed.

This wildlife place during fledgling season gets 30 to 40 animals a day and they only have a tiny shed to hold them. That means due to space constraints alone they have to euthanize over 90% of the animals they receive regardless of their condition or prospects for survival. They obviously have a few token birds they save and make videos to show the public so it looks like they are doing something good, but the reality is they are just a killing factory because they have to be.

I have befriended a family of crows in my neighborhood so I was naturally devastated during fledgling season to see one of their babies limping around with a broken wing crying out for help and approaching people, dogs, cars without fleeing. He was definitely not going to last the night and might have died within the hour when I captured him because he was standing in the middle of the road, waiting for a car to run him over. This wildlife place has made me regret that I tried to save him. If I knew then what I know now, I would have left the poor little guy to die naturally with his family close by. I feel that I have robbed them of the natural grieving process which they go through because they are so smart. Smarter than me, perhaps.

I kept poor little crowbert in this uncomfortable cardboard box all night since it was after closing time when I found him injured. He was obviously in a lot of pain because I could hear him shifting around all night. I paid for an Uber to rush him in to the wildlife place hoping to get him started on his recovery ASAP. The first thing I noticed was that the staff was very inhumane about taking my poor injured friend and just whisked him into the preprocessing shed without even checking to make sure he was comfortable. The attitude felt to me like the staff member was simply stacking up a piece of cargo to be shipped off.

So here I was thinking I did the right thing and that little Crowbert was going to be okay and I told his father Blackbeard as much. After not hearing any news about the patient and getting their email soliciting me to send them money, I sent a message to explicitly ask how Crowbert was doing, if he was eating and drinking fine because I didn't feel confident to try to feed him all night. It had been two days at this point. I got a reply telling me that the patient had died shortly after he arrived. In other words, they killed him, just like all the other reviews are stating.

I had been so interested in helping the process of rehabilitating this bird that I asked if I could be the one to release him back to his family since they were very worried about him and I was worried they might never trust me again if their baby didn't come back in good condition. They said they couldn't let the public do that. I knew that they had volunteers so I went ahead and started the process of becoming a volunteer and read all the handbooks and volunteer agreements.

The peculiar thing which I found to be emphasized in the volunteer agreements was that these people are bound to an extreme form of SECRECY. This looked rather suspicious at first but now that I know this place kills almost every single bird that comes to them, I understand why they insist upon secrecy of their staff and volunteers. They naturally don't want the word to get out about the fact that they are a killing factory. It might interfere with their ability to get funding.

Compassion is more important than money. Don't bring animals to this place!!

We brought a sweet young bird here and Abby was a Rockstar that took care of him in the best way possible. Very friendly staff and they keep you in the loop with updates on the animals you bring to them. Excellent experience!

Patrick and team, THANK YOU on behalf of the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver for the rescuing the baby ducks in time today.

We discovered mallard duck eggs up on the rooftop terrace.
From experience last year, the Landlord knew that the mother would be protective of the eggs, so we called the Wildlife Rescue and they told us to keep an eye on when they hatched.
It's a far fall to the ground, and we wanted to make sure they were protected once hatched. Not only from falling, but also from crows and seagulls.
Wildlife rescue was super responsive and gave us peace of mind in knowing that they were monitoring the situation closely.
This morning, the eggs hatched, and all the volunteers were tied up around the city as this is common this time of year.
They ended up making it down today somehow, a gentleman named Patrick was amazing.
There were 10 ducklings with the mama and no casualties to the predators.
We were impressed with how quickly and effortlessly the entire operation went.

Grateful to this operation and the dedicated people who run it! I found an injured baby humming bird this morning and delivered it to their care. The intake was efficient and friendly. They even assigned a patient number so that I can reference for follow up. Thank you for providing this invaluable resource!

On Sunday my neighbors and I found a young, injured seagull. Wildlife Rescue did their best offering guidance over the phone as to how we should care for the gull until we could arrange a volunteer pick up.
Unfortunately, a volunteer couldn't be found so I drove it out to them after work.
The staff were friendly and helpful when I arrived. Explaining what I needed to do and promptly taking the seagull to their onsite vet hospital.

Overall the experience was as seamless as it could be and I'm happy that there's somewhere like Wildlife Rescue helping the animals :)

I wish I could recommend this organization. Unfortunately, I feel like they make decisions for animals based on their own priorities rather than the animals themselves.

I’ve brought several birds in with minor injuries and none have ever made it. Most recently, two young American robins. I had to keep these two for 24 hours. They were eating, pooping, and sleeping normally. I brought them in in great condition only be told the “animal’s conditions were beyond our ability to help and we are saddened to inform you that they have passed away”. It was a pretty automated response and, having rehabbed many birds of all ages myself, I don’t believe that they were beyond saving for a minute.

My one wish is that I would have just kept this last sweet, healthy pair and rehabbed them myself. If you have *any* other option for rescue, exercise it. They will likely euthanize the birds you bring to them.

Gave them a call after a mum duck and about 10 ducklings got stuck in my back yard and then the neighbors back yard by going under the fence. Within hours they turned up early evening and relocated the duck family. Very happy how everything turned out.