Wild Bird Rehab needs your help

Baby birds, like this downy woodpecker, are frequent guests at WBR

North County is home to many excellent nonprofits, but one of my favorites has to be Wild Bird Rehabilitation in Overland. For nearly 17 years, this amazing organization has been rescuing sick and injured songbirds throughout the St. Louis area.

In fact, if you visit their small facility on Midland Blvd, you’ll find room after room filled with needy birds. Birds with broken wings or those who’ve been attacked a cat. Even teeny-tiny baby birds who got separated from their parents. It’s quite a sight.

During the peak season (April-September), WBR often treats 200 birds a day! And over the course of a year, they rehab more than 2,500 birds, representing 100 different native species.

Like many nonprofits, WBR operates on a shoestring and they are always in need of donations and volunteers. Right now, if you sign up for a Schnucks eScrip community card, 3% of every Schnucks purchase you make will go to Wild Bird Rehab. And they could really use it.

So go ahead. Send some love (and money) to this incredibly hard-working organization. What they do for wild birds is truly a gift to all of us.

If you find an injured songbird, WBR is the place to take it.

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