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Pelican
lovers can now become a Pelican
Partners in our exciting new expanded
pelican adoption program. (Video
report: ABC-TV
Sacramento)
For the $500 adoption
fee, when your pelican is ready
for release, you will be invited
to our San Pedro Center and watch
as our staff gives your bird its
final examination, evaluation, approval
and numbered Federal band. You and
your family will then accompany
IBRRC staff to release your pelican
at a local site. You will be the
one to open the cage, let your pelican
go free and take photos or video
of this wonderful experience. A
beautiful commemorative certificate
will include your name, the date
and place of release and your pelican’s
band number. You will also receive
a IBRRC t-shirt.
Background
Did you know that since
1972 IBRRC has banded over 50,000
birds? We have the word “research”
in our name because the birds we
band become lifetime subjects of
study, and provide a great amount
of data. IBRRC is one of only a
few rehabilitation centers in the
US that is part of the USFWS Federal
Banding Program. LA
Times story on pelican adoptions
We began our adoption
program in the summer of 2004, when
we received over 100 juvenile brown
pelicans at our San Pedro center.
They were unable to find food and
were starving. Knowing from past
experience that each pelican we
rehabilitate costs approximately
$200-$500, we decided to initiate
an adoption
program for this endangered species.
It was so successful we quickly
ran out of pelicans and had to start
a waiting list!
A wonderful gift of
life
Adopting a bird for
yourself or a friend is a wonderful
way to give a gift of life to other
bird lovers and help us continue
helping our bird friends in need.
We've had birds adopted as
wedding presents, memorials
of people, pets and special animals, birthday,
Mother's Day, Father's Day, anniversary
presents and celebrating the birth
of a baby.
Your adoption package
includes a beautiful certificate
of adoption that includes the band
number of your bird, place and date
of release. Every adoption
also includes an year long membership
to IBRRC. IBRRC will not inundate
you with mailings. We do quarterly
updates via e-mail and invite you
to e-mail us with questions or comments
and hope you will visit our website
often. It is full of information
about us, our history, and our work
around the world. We use the
donations we receive to help fund
our rehabilitation program.
Your donation goes directly to animal
care, not marketing programs.
*Note: Your sponsorship
of a bird is to help raise and release
each bird. You do not actually get
to keep the bird.
Please send a check
today: Download
an Adoption form 
(PDF 172 kb)
Note: Many employers
have matching gift programs. Check
for your company
Also see: CBS-5
report on pelicans
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