Please note: if you are using the link www.wingbeats.info to access our site, please update it to www.wingtips.org, as the former address will be unavailable soon.
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Please donate to help wildlife recover, every dollar helps!
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CALLING ALL MARS MEMBERS! Our 2012 AGM is coming up on MAY 27th -
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Vote for MARS on Shell Fuelling Change!
As part of our mandate to preserve and protect wildlife, Mountainaire Avian Rescue Society has proposed a project to study Great Blue herons in their natural habitat in Bayne's Sound and the Comox Valley, particularly during the breeding season. This initiative is important because Great Blues are a species at risk and their habitat is being threatened by human encroachment. There has never been a study of this kind done in this area.
For voting instructions see below:
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IMPORTANT INFORMATION DURING BABY ANIMAL SEASON
May 1st through mid-August is a very busy time at MARS: Baby Bird Season is a time when we receive large numbers of phone calls and baby birds brought to our Wildlife Centre for care: often they have been kidnapped!!
Many of the birds we see are not injured, orphaned, or abandoned. The fact is that they are normal fledglings, on the ground, learning to find food and to fly. Many of these young birds are in the process of "fledging" (leaving the nest). In most species this takes several days. Often their parents are nearby or away for brief periods to hunt and find food to bring back to the baby.
Fawns are also often found alone and apparently abandoned. Do not assume a lone fawn is abandoned; when the mother is off foraging fawns are often left to remain still and hidden in the grass. Leave the fawn alone and watch from a distance (unless you have sited a dead doe in the area).More information on fawns is available under Help Wildlife.
Please see the following article for more information:
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This robin is an example of a fledgling baby bird. |
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Cranky Crow Cards Fundraiser, Starting May 13
We will be staging an online fundraising event with Cranky Crow Studios, a Victoria greeting
card company, starting next Sunday, May 13, and running for just one week.
During this time they will donate $2 to us for every greeting card you buy through their website!
Take a look at their line of colourful animal art cards if you get a chance. Their website is
There's no postage charged if you order two or more cards, too.
Even after the campaign, you can still buy cards through Cranky Crow and we get $1 from
each card when you choose us as the charity to support.
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Upcoming Events
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MARS participates in a number of community events and we also have several
of our own planned. Here are some of the places you'll be able to find us and our
ambassador birds this spring and summer...
JUNE & JULY EVENTS: click read more, below
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MARS SUMMER RAFFLE 2012
Fabulous prizes, totalling more than $4,000! First prize is two round trip tickets to any regularly scheduled WestJet destination!Tickets are $5.00 each and are available at MARS or from volunteers at any of the community events we are attending.
DRAW DATE: September 3, 2012 @ 3:00pm, Kitty Coleman Woodland Gardens, 6183 Whitaker Road, Courtenay. Winners not in attendance will be notified by phone. Winners consent to the release of their names by the licensee. All prizes have been donated and proceeds will be used to support the ongoing work of MARS.
BC Gaming Event Licence #43856 Maximum no. of Tickets 2500 @ $5.00 each
For a complete list of prizes, see below...
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MARS Newest Videos on YouTube
Our patients are the reason for our existence and we try to give them the best care possible.Sometimes we manage to capture them on video and we'd like to show you some of the other things we're involved in, too. Please go directly to www.youtube.com//MARSbirds to see some of our other patients and events. (Right click on the link and choose "open in new tab")
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MARS Products from CafePress
Visit MARSComoxValley on-line store at CafePress to find MARS-related merchandise,
with our ambassadors and featured patients. Profits from all sales help support
our ongoing wildlife rescue and rehabilitation efforts.
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It's Time for Spring Cleaning!
MARS Moment 2012 by Sandy Fairfield, MARS Education Coordinator
After a storm there is always a silver lining and this was true recently when the sound of the howling wind was replaced by the melodic chorus of the songbirds. It seemed over night hundreds of small songbirds descended on to the ground or into the trees searching for food or happily chasing a mate with breeding on their mind. As soon as daylight saving time arrives the winter migrants from the south return and the migration to the Arctic breeding ground is also under way. This is a critical time for birds that use our local areas as a pit stop en route to the arctic and we need to make sure dogs or humans do not disturb these birds as they feed along our shores and estuaries.
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Ospreys
Photo by Sandy Royer
On April 22nd, during our "Walk for Wildlife" we had an urgent call from an eye witness to rescue a bird that had just "fallen from the sky". Two bald eagles were performing their aerial acrobatics above the Courtenay ambulance station over the river when all of a sudden another bird, described as a hawk, flew in between the eagles; a move that almost turned out to be a fatal mistake. The male eagle immediately broke contact with its mate and attacked the "hawk" slashing out with its talons, knocking the hawk out of the air onto the ground. Quick thinking by Nigel Chapman, an eye witness who remembered that we had our walk in progress, saved this bird's life.
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