We are the ONLY organization in Southwest Florida that does everything that we do:

1. We respond to over 5,000 bird rescue calls per year.
2. We host over 25,000 visitors in our Wild Bird Learning Center each year.
3. We offer four fully-accredited field trips that are age-appropriate for students in grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12.
4. We provide summer camps all season long.
5. We offer a rigorous internship program that hosts college interns throughout the year.

Save Our Seabirds receives over 5,000 distress calls each year from caring citizens throughout the Sarasota-Manatee area. Our initial response is to ascertain what might be wrong with the bird and whether it is feasible to actually catch the bird and bring it to our hospital. We then dispatch the nearest available rescuer from our list of volunteers to transport the bird to our hospital for treatment. Our full-time, on-site veterinarian typically attends to 1200-1400 birds annually in our avian hospital. We do everything we can to rehabilitate and release the bird back into the wild, preferably near the place where it was rescued. The most common injuries are caused by fish hooks, automobiles and golf balls.

Birds that are unable to be released back into the wild are given permanent homes in natural habitat setting at our Wild Bird Learning Center , which is open to the public daily from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.