Liberty Wildlife Rehabilitation Foundation, Inc.

There are not a lot of places that will take injured wild birds, so I was beyond happy to have found this place and drive an hour to save a dove that was hurt in my neighborhood. They even ask pertinent questions like where the animal was found so they could re-release in that general area once it was healed!

Liberty Wildlife is one of the coolest organizations I know of. Not only do they help return thousands of ill or injured animals back to the wild, their education programs are terrific. I have volunteered in this area, and it is hard to describe the reaction of children and adults when they see a great horned owl, an American Kestrel or a turkey vulture up close and learn the story of how they came to be injured and recovered. These wildlife ambassadors teach people about the wonders of nature, even though their lifetime in the natural world has ended due to injury or disease. Over 300 dedicated volunteers contribute to the cause of helping wildlife, and many get back as much as their contribute!

Liberty Wildlife is an organization of highly dedicated volunteers helping Arizona's native wildlife. Every injured animal that arrives at Liberty has a bad experience with human caused conditions; wires, windows, poison, sticky traps, cats, etc. The goal of Liberty is to have no animals on premises, having returned all back to the wild. A significant percentage of those that are treated at Liberty are indeed returned. The Education group of Liberty does a great job of educating the publicv, school children, civic groups on living with wildlife. I'm in my 16th year as a volunteer at Liberty.

Liberty Wildlife has been part of my curriculum for over 15 years. The volunteers are always ready and willing to come to what ever event I have planned. They are truly educational bringing their mission in all that they do. There message of Conservation and Preservation is evident at all times. Liberty shows the upmost respect for the birds and their needs while educating people of all ages.
My students remember the conservation message that Liberty delivers. I often hear the students discussing what was said days later.
Liberty Wildlife is a fantastic organization dealing with Conservation, Education and Rehabilitation.

I have always loved birds and saw a story on 3TV about Liberty Wildlife. The story mentioned that Liberty Wildlife had volunteer opportunities, so I looked into it and ended up joining their Orphan Care program. What a WONDERFUL experience! I helped take care of, and get educated on, many different kinds of baby birds. I was also able to assist the Medical Services team with some of the older birds.

What a phenomenal organization! The work they do to help preserve Arizona's native wildlife is beyond words. It's very sad that there are so many injured birds, but because of organizations such as Liberty Wildlife and the volunteers that work there, many of the animals get a second chance at life.

This organization rehabilitates all injured or orphaned native Arizona animals. Over 3500 animals come to Liberty each year. Volunteer based, the people at Liberty devote an extraordinary amount of time and talent to saving animals. In addition, there is an extensive education program for school children and civic groups providing information about Arizona's animals and what the public can do to protect the natural world as part of our legacy for future generations. The group reaches people in every corner of Arizona and rescues animals from all over the state. It has been selected to provide non-eagle feathers to Native Americans throughout the country as part of a US Gov. pilot project. Liberty is a wonderful organization, well established and respected. It's an honor to be a part of the team.

I started at Liberty Wildlife 1 year ago. I worked in Orphan Care. I fell in Love with Liberty Wildlife and all the wonderful people that do amazing work there every day. The volunteers there are very dedicated, hardworking and generous people. After a full season in Orphan Care I moved to Medical services, in this position I have seen miracles through the work of the senor Med Staff.

Volunteering at Liberty Wildlife is such an amazing part of my life! I have been volunteering for over a year now and I feel so blessed to be a part of seeing and helping so many amazing birds! I feel like I have a second family volunteering there, and I continue to learn such amazing things from the people I volunteer with about the birds we rescue and rehabilitate. It has always been clear that everyone involved is so dedicated and truly cares for all of the birds. I hope I am able to be a part of Liberty Wildlife for as long as I am living in AZ. :-)

Liberty Wildlife is 1 of the most important Animal Rescue places in the great state of AZ with 1 of the most dedicated group of animal lovers I have ever met!
We rescue fallen birds and animals all year long at any time of day or night. Thousands of birds are rehabilitated and released back into the wild yearly.
Volunteers will drive countless miles to rescue hurt birds and mammals.
This organization is 100% volunteer based and is an unsung hero in our community

I have been a volunteer at Liberty Wildlife for almost 4 years now. I especially love working in the Orphan Care (OC) department, but since OC is seasonal, I work year-round in medical services. It is a very fulfilling to be part of rehabilitating sick and injured animals.

I'm also an avid birder and volunteering for Liberty gives me the opportunity to see so many birds close up; it's rather thrilling to see the different morphs of birds that would be near impossible to see in the wild. Recently, I had the opportunity to assist senior medical services feed condor #122 who was at Liberty for rehabilitation from lead poisoning. I never thought I would get to see a condor that up-close and personal; what an amazing bird!

I'm currently a graduate student with an interest in population ecology and modelling avian populations. Liberty has been a terrific source of inspiration for my research and an invaluable source of data and information.

Liberty Wildlife provides medical care and rehabilitation to native AZ species and is working diligently to preserve nature in a way that is unique and unparalleled. In addition, they are performing top notch educational programs to teach conservation and preservation in various settings throughout the state and region. I am proud to be a part of this special organization and know that our work is making a positive impact on the environment.

I became associated with Liberty Hotline through an article in the local newspaper asking for volunteers. In my time with the hotline, I have participated in the rescue of all sorts of Arizona wildlife from eagles to baby rabbits. Liberty never turns an injured animal away, even if it is not a species that can be kept in their facility for a long period of time. They treat it and then find the proper location for it to rehab.
I also feed baby birds in their orphan care program and I see the loving care given every baby that comes to us.
These are wonderful people who give their time unstintingly to care for the wild animals of Arizona.

I brought a bird into Wildlife that I had found injured. I was asked if I wanted to volunteer when fillinf out the paperwork. I checked yes. I was contacted by email soon after and asked if I wanted to come to an oreintation meeting. I attended and then was put on the schedule to helop every Thursday for 4 hours in the orphan room. Helping feed, and clean the cages fo the birds that were taken in for rehabilitation. I enjoyed every minute of my experience with Wildlife staff they were alll very kind and great teachers.

Liberty Wildlife is staffed by a group of knowledgeable and extremely dedicated volunteers. The variety of jobs done by these people is just amazing.

I have learned so much by:

* Watching those who dedicate countless volunteer hours to managing the facility, and the small office staff who do the 'business aspect' of keeping the organization operating, making each dollar work as hard as possible to help as many birds and animals as possible, is a lesson in teamwork and how to run an efficient and cost effective organization.
*Seeing how clean and scrubbed the mews and holding cages are every day. This shows that the daily care volunteers really care about the home and the health of the birds and animals.
* Watching the hand feeding team volunteers carefully measure the amount of food that each education raptor will be fed, adding raptor vitamins to ensure the bird receives all vital nutrients, then weighing each bird, logging that weight and the weight and type of food being served, into the daily log book. This shows how the volunteers understand the requirements of each and every bird, every single day.
*Seeing the Medical Service volunteers thoroughly examine every single animal, from tiny cottontail bunnies to large beautiful hawks, searching to find anything that may be broken, have an electrocution burn, gunshot wound, fish hook or fishing line embedded, and the other types of injury that humans seem to accidently or on purpose inflict on these wild creatures. This shows a depth of dedication to helping the bird or animal overcome the injury that one would expect to see in a hospital for humans.
* Watching the Orphan Care volunteers prepare and feed the hundreds, even thousands, of orphans- little birds, hawks, owls, rabbits etc is a lesson in organization! They even take extra care by wearing camouflage that conceals the face, hands and body, to avoid 'imprinting' tiny raptors while feeding them, to ensure they will be releaseable when they are old enough and strong enough to survive on their own.
*Seeing actual raptor foster parents raising orphaned babies of any size, including teaching them the skills necessary to survive in the outside world. This shows that non-releasable, non-education raptors have a positive impact in helping return their species to the wild.
*Watching the Education volunteers take education birds to festivals, churches, schools, nursing homes, and other events, showing the beauty of the birds up close, explaining how and why the bird became an education bird, describing where and how the bird would live in the wild. These birds are no longer able to fly free and soar on the wind, to hunt for themselves, to mate and raise a family, but they are willing partners in educating the public on what people can do to help secure a place in the world for their species.
*Manning the Hotline, where the public calls for assistance and information about what to do with orphan or injured birds, providing an opportunity to interact and educate the public. Helping them understand how to safely return a baby bird that has fallen out of the nest, what to do about an injured bird, is very rewarding.
*Calling a trained Rescue and Transport volunteer, who may drive many miles to pick up an injured or orphaned raptor. Knowing that there are volunteers out there who are willing to give their time (and gas!) to rescuing a raptor is a great feeling.

There are many other volunteers and areas at Liberty Wildlife that provide native birds, raptors and animals an opportunity to grow up, heal and return to their special place in the world.

Liberty Wildlife is a Living Example of their Mission Statement:

"Liberty Wildlife is dedicated to nurturing the nature of Arizona's wildlife through quality rehabilitation, community education and conservation services".

This organization does a great job at what it does. They allow volunteers to get all sorts of experience. Also if a volunteer does not feel comfortable doing something, they are more than welcomed to say so. Liberty will not force people to do something they do not want to do. The people at liberty emanate a love for all wildlife and animals. The organization is well structured and are able to get many jobs done in a short amount of time.

Liberty Wildlife plays a central role in protecting wildlife and educating the public in our community. This organization has a hotline that the public can be freely accessed every day of the week from approximately 8:00 am to 9:00 pm. As a hotline volunteer, I can attest how useful this resource is to the community as we get calls ranging from injured wildlife to homeless pets to tempering unwanted wildlife encounters. In almost all these cases, we are able to assist these callers even if it is simply referring them to other community resources that can better aid them in resolving the issue.

Volunteering with Liberty Wildlife has been the best decision of my life. I get to work hands on with Arizona animals ( and some outsiders) and directly contribute to saving their lives. I am a part of the daily care team and I am responsible for feeding the birds, cleaning their enclosures and providing any assistance to the medical services staff. Everyone I meet I tell them about Liberty because all that they do to save the species in Arizona inspiring. The staff is incredibly devoted and kindhearted. I am often trying to recruit people to come volunteer here because it has made such a positive impact on me! I mean come on, who wouldn't want to wake up and save a hawk or an owl all before breakfast?

I obtained an internship with Liberty Wildlife over the summer of 2010. I met extraordinary people passionate about wildlife and conservation. I built skills necessary for the biology field in animal capture and animal behavior as well as basic medical services. I was trained in areas of rehabilitation as well as public education. This non-profit organization is a great opportunity for anyone passionate about Arizona's beautiful wildlife.

I decided to volunteer at Liberty Wildlife back in 2009. I started out feeding the owls and was amazed by their beauty and grace. I started volunteering in late fall so I had missed the baby season and didn't get the full picture of just how important Liberty's role is until the orphaned baby owls started pouring in during the spring of 2010. Enclosures that had two non-releasable owls now held twenty owls a piece!

Baby owlets are placed in an enclosure with a set of foster parents who feed and protect them until they are old enough to feed themselves. Those foster parents treat the owlets like their own kids and it was a joy and a privilege watching them grow so fast!

Owl feeders are encouraged to go in with food, deposit it, and leave as quickly as possible so the babies don't become too familiar with humans. Babies who need medical attention are treated by medical technicians who feed them wearing camo suits and used puppets to hand in the food so the babies won't imprint on humans. The point? Liberty wants to release absolutely any wild creature that can be released back into its natural environment.

I'm in the beginning of my second baby owlet season at Liberty. We already have 6 babies! I don't know what I look forward to more; watching the babies lose their white fuzz, start to hop around their enclosures and learn to feed themselves; or seeing them moved to flight cages so they can learn to fly and hunt in preparation for their final release.

I was given the privilege of releasing one of these beautiful and fierce creatures in the fall of 2010. He had come in as a helpless infant and had grown into an adult owl. I took him to a mountain preserve and opened his traveling box. He knew exactly what to do. He took two hops and went soaring up into the air. He never looked back and why should he? He was strong, healthy, able to look after himself, and wanting what all of us wants: a chance to live the type of life he was born to live.

Thank you Liberty Wildlife. It's all about letting wildlife be wildlife.



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I have been volunteering at LIberty Wildlife for two years now. This facility rescues and rehabilitates birds of all kinds (and some mammals and reptiles), and provides permanent homes and care to birds and animals that cannot be re-released into the wild. As a volunteer, I have provided food, fresh water, and clean surroundings to the rescued birds and animals. I have assisted in their medical care. I've had the privilege of releasing a healthy, rehabilitated bird back into the wild. I've had the honor of educating the public about these wonderful creatures, with a hawk or falcon or owl standing on my gloved hand.
This is an amazing organization and does an incredible job helping the public understand how to better care for our environment and wildlife, in addition to caring for all the creatures that enter its doors. The volunteers are dedicated and their highest priority is the care, safety, comfort and well-being of the birds and animals in their care. I am proud to be a volunteer with Liberty Wildlife, and I would encourage anyone to support their work. I will continue to volunteer with them as long as I possibly can!

LIberty WIldlife has always been super green. I mean they are helping wildlife, what could be greener than that! They have always used products like "Super Green" for cleaning, recycle everything, and maximize the small space they have by stacking things. I personally get lots of used items donated , and many volunteers build things from already existing materials. They squeak out every last use for everything.And their education program goes to schools to educate children on wildlife, to be more environmentally responsible. Just about everything they use is recycled, I can't think of a greener place.

I started volunteering at Liberty Wildlife as a 'thank you' to them for having taken care of numerous injured birds I've brought in over the years (having 4 cats - it's to be expected). It's an honor to work with these majestic birds and the community of the people who care for them.

Liberty Wildlife is one of the premier rehabilitation agencies in the United States. I have been working with Liberty Wildlife for several years and it is one of my favorite non-profits. They operate on a shoe string budget but help over 4,000 injured, abandoned and orphaned native wildlife return to nature through rescue and rehabilitation services. In addition, Liberty Wildlife provides over 400 educational programs each year to schools, community organizations and event -- helping individuals understand the importance of protecting and preserving wildlife, habitats and nature. They also provide consultation services to utility companies and others that often impact native habitats negatively. The organization is run primarily by over 350 volunteers and very little staff -- a wonderful organization that deserves the community's support and appreciation!