We’re seeing double at TRAC this summer!The 2003 summer internship was given in May

to Peggy Hash of Tornado, an 18 year old graduatefrom St Albans High School on her way to ConcordCollege in the Fall. No sooner had we let her know thatshe was accepted for the position than she shylyinformed us that she had a twin sister and said, “Weshare everything. Can we share the internship too?”Well, what could we say? Thus Megan Hash wasincluded (as soon as she could quit her summer job a amajor retail store) and we have gotten twice the helpand have had sayings like “It’s all good” and “Rock on”happily tossed our way daily. To say they areenthusiastically interested is an understatement!

The twins have had the usual chores of keepingthe hospital clean, feeding and caring for patients andeducation birds, working on raptor handling techniques,doing data entry and so on, but the work has beeninterspersed with road trips for education programs andlearning to use construction power tools among otherpursuits. They have been a big help here, and thanksto their hard work we are very close to being caught upon the majority of our workload here. This will enableus to focus on fundraising and grant writing a lot morethis Fall and Winter.

As the newsletter was getting written, theyoffered to write something for it, and since they aretwins, we are giving them two pages to say whateverthey would like. Their essays can be found on pages 7& 8 of this newsletter. We hope to continue workingwith Peggy and Megan as they continue through theircollege careers. Thanks for your hard work, you two!

Migration Celebration 2003 a big successThis year’s Migration Celebration in May was a

bigger success than last year. Crowd estimates rangedfrom 650 to 700 individuals attending, including manychildren and their families. A sponsorship bannerproclaimed this year’s co-sponsors: Bank One, Jarrett& Foley DDS, Harvey’s Fashions and Mountain StateENT & Facial Plastic Surgery Inc, whose additionalfunding made it possible to expand the event with moreactivities than before.

Activities, classes and displays were manyand varied, and we wish to thank everyone whotook the time and effort to make the event sospecial this year: the WV Dept. Of NaturalResources Wildlife Diversity Program, theNational Park Service, Gary Rankin and JohnHubbard, Randy Urian, Huntington/Tri-stateAudubon Society, WV Dept of AgricultureEntomologist Terry Carrington, Granny Sue,Doug Harper, Shayar, No Strings Attached, Bob& Robin Worth, Kris Siuta, Mary Lepant & family,Bruce & Jeanne Brenneman, Ron Refsland, Mike& Judy McDade, and so many others! Photosfrom the 2003 Migration Celebration are on ourweb page - check them out: ww.tracwv.org. Nextyear’s Migration Celebration will be May 8, 2004.

In this issue . . .Ron’s Page ..... . . ..... . . .. .......... ...... page 2Species Spotlight: . .. .. .... ... .... .... .... .... .... page 3Contact information & needs list...... .... ...........page 4News from the Center ............... ...... ........page 5 & 6TRAC Interns speak up ... .. ....... ...... ..... page 7 & 8Membership Info & General Store .... .... .... . ... page 9

The Raptor ChapterVolume # 12 Issue # 22nd Quarter Edition August 2003

A publication of Three Rivers Avian Center

Attention: Cat OwnersSNAP OUT OF IT!!!

This summer has brought to TRAC manymore cat bitten birds than ever before. Weexpected this to happen sooner or later as wordspread of the Center’s willingness to take in songbirds as well as raptors. Everybody knows that catskill birds and other wildlife, but what has surprisedus is not how hard it is to save a bird bitten by a cat(and it’s very tough) but how hard it is to get catowners to take responsibility for the problem. So, toall the cat people out there (this includes me;Wendy and I have a neutered cat named George)here’s the best information I can provide.

Next to habitat destruction, cats are thesecond largest contributing factor to the decline ofbirds around the world. In the U.S., there are over73 million pet cats and an additional 60 to 100million stray and feral cats. These animals havehuge advantages over native wild predators. Beingassociated with humans, they are more likely to beprotected from diseases, predation, competition,and starvation. Their numbers do not increase ordecrease with prey populations like a wild predator.To compound the problem, cats differ from almostall other predators in that they hunt even when theyaren’t hungry. Its all play to them. Wheneverstudies have been done, even cats that never bringhome “presents” are found to be serial killers,dispatching dozens of mammals and birds a night.Native rodents, those stereotyped mega-breeders,are at risk. In California, Deer Mice and HarvestMice are in decline and being replaced with the nonnative House Mouse because of its habit ofsponging off of untended cat and dog food bowlsand human trash.

Unaltered cats are prolific breeders. Instates with warm climates such as in WV, a femalecat can have up to three litters per year with four toeight kittens per litter. Additionally, cats are notstrictly territorial like most predatory animals. Theycan exist at much higher densities and mayout-compete native predators - even raptors - forfood. Only a few states have adequately studiedthe problem, but in Wisconsin, cat densities reachup to 114 per square mile.

Unvaccinated free-roaming cats can and dospread rabies, feline leukemia and distemper toeach other and native wildlife. In fact cats are themost common carriers of rabies among alldomestic animals. Even in so called “managed” catcolonies maintained by people sympathetic to

abandoned pet cats, the problems of disease,injuries due to fighting, and native wildlife depletionbecome unmanageable because these coloniestend to become target repositories for the furtherdumping of unwanted, pregnant, or diseased pets.

Globally, the response is taking shape.Australia and New Zealand have banned cats fromcoming into the country and are actively trying toextirpate them from wild lands. In the USA Hawaii,Florida, and California have passed aggressivelegislation to manage the problem in their States. Itwould be a shame if West Virginia has to followtheir lead just because we can’t live up to ourresponsibilities as pet owners.

For people who like cats, the dilemma canbe resolved only by taking responsibility for yourpet and by doing the following:

1. Spay or neuter your cat. Just do it. Theyget over it just fine and so can you. They fight less,are healthier, tend to be happier and they don’tbreed at all.

2. Keep your cat indoors as much aspossible and especially at night which is when catsdo a preponderance of their killing. Cats can behappy as house pets. Helpful tips along this line areavailable on the web on the US Humane Societyinternet site and at “http://www.abcbirds.org/cats/”.

3. Locate your bird feeders where there isno cover for a hunting cat (or other predator) andkeep the grass cut low enough that ground-feedingbirds can easily see the approach of a cat.

4. Don’t dispose of unwanted cats bydumping them on your neighbors or booting themout into the woods. This is not “being kind”, it is flatout cruel and irresponsible, and it puts the unaskedfor burden of doing something with the abandonedcat on someone else.

5. Don’t feed feral or free-ranging cats out ofpity. This just makes a bad situation worse. Catsclustering around a food source populate rapidly,suffer from disease and injury, destroy wildlifethrough predation and competition, and pose adisease threat to wildlife, your pets, and you.

These tips are provided by the HumaneSociety of the United States, the American BirdingAssociation, National Audubon Society, Defendersof Wildlife, the USDA, wildlife rehabilitators andother concerned groups too numerous to fit in here.

Three Rivers Avian Center 's "The Raptor Chapter" Volume #12 Issue #2 page 2 Ron Perrone, TRAC Education Director

Species Spotlight:Barn Owl

Scientific Name: Tyto albaAppearance: a medium sized owl with no eartufts, slender and linear in overall form. Back andupper side of wings are cinnamon colored with flecksof white, black and grey, underside can vary fromwhite to cinnamon, breast is often flecked with darkgrey. There are two phases (or morphs) within thespecies: the white-breasted, almost pure whiteunderneath kind (like Twister in the picture above)and the darker orange-breasted phase, where thebreast is a dark cinnamon similar to the back andwings. The darker phase also has more dark on theface as well, almost looking as if someone penciled insome extra strokes along the edges of the facial disk.Plumage variation seems to have nothing to do withage, sex or geographic locale. The long legs andtoes are unfeathered.Common Name: Barn Owl, Ghost Owl,Monkey-faced Owl, Orange Owl, Spirit Owl, Queen ofthe Night (really!), Stone Owl, Sweetheart Owl, WhiteOwl.Size: a little over 17 inches tall, wingspan of 42.7inches, beak averages an inch long. Has anunusually long tarsus (the area on the leg just abovethe toes) measures on average 2.6 inches. Femalesare slightly larger then the males overall.Range: North America, although this family of owlsis widespread throughout the world numbering 17species in all, and all look very similar to the ones wesee in the US.Food Preferences: almost exclusively rodents,although supplemental prey can include sparrows,starlings, frogs, moths, and lizards.Hunting Technique: soaring about 10 feet offthe ground over open habitat, uses hearing ability tolocate prey, vision used mostly just for avoiding otherobjects.

Habitat: Can be found nesting and roosting on highledges in barns, stone walls, silos, farm outbuildings,abandoned or empty houses, water towers, belfries,mine shafts, large tree cavities, institutional buildings,granaries, quarries, or even under roadway or railroadbridges (and that’s the short list!) Barn owl nests havealso been found in tunnels they have excavated in atall steep stream banks. They like to have an openarea to hunt in such as an orchard, field or largeclearing.Nesting: 5 - 7 eggs, female does most of thebrooding, male brings food. Incubation lasts 30 - 34days, young are hatched out semi-downy, immobileand eyes are closed. Fully fledged out in 52 - 56days.Habits: strongly nocturnal, which often keeps themfrom being seen by humans. They become activestarting at sundown, however if they have chicks inthe nest they will also hunt during the day to keep upwith food demands of the babies. A nest or roost siteis most often identified first by the “whitewash” orurates below the area. Permanent resident yearround.Status: uncertain of populations in WV, decliningslowly around the US. Reintroduction programs havebeen unsuccessful, primarily due to loss of prey basefrom pesticide use and intensive farming techniques.

NOTES: The WV Dept. of Natural Resources is

currently trying to determine roughly how many barnowls are in WV. Many farmers are interested inhaving these owls nest on their property because asingle barn owl can capture and kill over 21 rodentsin just a ½ hour of a night’s hunting. If you havebarn owls in your area, you can participate in the datagathering for the study: just call WV DNR BiologistKieran O’Malley at 304-822-3551 and let him know.“We need help locating owls because their habitatexists mostly on farms and private land”, saysO’Malley. Young barn owls are just getting out andflying about now, so keep your eyes open!

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Patient UpdateWe are ahead of last year’s intake already,

with 120 patients turned in so far. A lot of youngand baby birds have been showing up with catbite injuries which are hard to turn around; thishas resulted in numerous deaths despite day andnight nursing and is very depressing and hard onmorale after a while.

We have had some very interesting birdsand cases come in though. First of all, we had anorthern waterthrush turned in (cat bite) fromSandstone in Summers County. Although wecould not save it, at least we got to see one ofthese unusual warblers close up. Right now weare also nursing a young barn owl fromLewisburg. He is an orange-breasted morph witha dislocated elbow that will make him unable tofly again. We are sending a request to the USFish & Wildlife Service for permission to keep himas an educational bird.

Holly and Allen Canfield, who were ourinterns during 2002 have been working on settingup an intake and triage point for TRAC inBuckhannon, and the word has been spreading.Since the beginning of the year they have workedwith 26 patients, some of which they were ableto nurse and release from their “triage clinic” andsome of which had to be transported down toTRAC for intensive care. Of particular note wasa lead poisoned red-tailed hawk that another2002 intern, Carole Pollock in Davis, WV, wasable to save. Carole met Holly and Allen whostabilized the bird then transported it to us forweeks of intense nursing. Thanks to a veryeffective protocol prescribed by our staff vet DrBill Streit, the bird is now flying free again overParsons in Tucker County.

Another interesting case included our firstMerlin, who flew into a carport while hunting inthe Canaan Valley area and sprained it’s

shoulder. That was another great coordinationbetween the WV Dept of Natural Resources inElkins, Holly and Allen and TRAC. Both theMerlin and the Red Tail were released back totheir respective areas on the same day - what ashow! As an added bonus, while the Merlin wasrecuperating here in a flight cage, Ron was ableto record the territorial calls of 3 falcons yelling allat once: Apex our American Kestrel, the Merlin,and Perry our Peregrine Falcon.

Right now as I write this a pileatedwoodpecker fledgling is pounding away on hiscardboard box on the porch, healing up frombeing attacked by dogs. A hummingbird just flewpast my window and I wonder if it is the one wewere able to release last week that had beencaught by a cat. THAT release was a major joy;not only were we able to release a hummingbird(which are always tricky to work with) but it wasone of the few cases we were able to turn aroundfrom a cat bite injury.

Currently care for our patients is getting tobe very difficult tho, along with being able to goout to present our educational programs.Donations to the Center have fallen off by over$13,000 this year, and I just used our last $50donation to purchase meal worms to feed thepileated woodpecker. The newsletter mailing isbeing delayed until we can find the $300 we needto buy stamps, and on it goes. We have gonethrough tough financial times before, but thereserves used to tide us over then were neverable to be replenished so the Center is verymuch in need of immediate funding. On thatnote, please read on:Art Auction to benefit TRAC in October

Mountain State University in Beckley hasagreed to co-sponsor an art auction to benefitTRAC on October 24th, 2003. The event will beheld in MSU’s Convocation Center. We hope toraise $20,000 at the event and are asking anyartists who wish to donate artwork to please getin touch with either Dr. Cheryl Melkonian (at304-763-4553) or Wendy or Ron Perrone atTRAC (1-800-721-5252 in WV, or 304-466-4683outside WV state lines.) More info on the eventcan be found on our Internet website:www.tracwv.org/artauction2003. See you there!

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News from TRAC

We’velost

Luther, our GreatHorned

Owl

On June 19, Luther, our great hornedowl, died very suddenly. We had gone to do aprogram at Elk Elementary Center in Charleston, WV.When we opened the van and unloaded the cages infront of him, Ron saw Luther on the floor of his cageand called me over. I took Luther and quickly droveto Dr. Sarah Stephenson's Good Shepherd VeterinaryHospital just down the road. Luther died in my armsas I ran through the Hospital's front door.

The final diagnosis was that he died of ananeurysm, which is when the an artery to the heartsuddenly enlarges and the blood pools into a sac. InLuther’s case the sac was created and rupturedimmediately without any advance warning. He wasperfectly normal when we got him ready to travel andwas fine during transit - no indications at all of anytrouble. Our solace is that at least he didn’t suffermore than a few minutes and that his death was veryrapid. We miss him terribly. -wp

West Nile Virus Found Againin WV

According to the Centers forDisease Control in Atlanta, therehas been a positive test for WestNile Virus in a robin from GreenbrierCounty in mid June. Otherpreliminary tests show positives in Ohio, Wood andMorgan counties, although we could not find out whatspecies those test results were for by the time thisnewsletter went to press.

The best way to keep from getting West NileVirus is to limit your exposure to mosquitos. Some

simple things to do include 1) wear a mosquitorepellent that contains at least 25% DEET, 2) removeall standing stagnant water from around your livingarea. This includes eliminating old tires and brokentoys, and clean out your bird baths and pet bowls 2 -3 times weekly then refill them with fresh water.Remember to empty out the catchpans for youroutdoor flower pots too. 3) treat your bird baths, fishponds, animal watering devices, swimming pools, etcwith “Mosquito Dunks”, a bacteria called BTI that killsonly the mosquito larvae that grow into mosquitos thatcan transmit West Nile Virus. These mosquito dunksare harmless to everything and everyone else, andone “Dunk” can treat 100 sq feet of water for 30 days.“Dunks” can also be broken up into smaller pieces totreat smaller bodies of water.

According to test results coming out ofEurope, who has been dealing with West Nile longerthan we have, spraying for mosquitos has actuallypushed all mosquito species to develop a muchstronger resistance to common insecticides. On thepositive side, other tests are showing that birds aredeveloping a resistance to West Nile, and that amother bird’s immunity can be spread to her chicks asthey are being formed in the egg.

For a lot more information on West Nile Virus,check out the following Internet web sites:

www.tracwv.org/wnv1.htm - information and links for other great siteshttp://westnilevirus.nbii.gov - what it is, where it is, history & a lot of very good information.www.wvdhhr.org - Bird testing reports for West Nile Virus in WV www.baesg.org/westnile.htm - anextensive and current page of links toinformation.

Statistically, a person's risk of contracting West Nile isvery low. In most areas where the virus is established,only 1% of the area's mosquitoes carry the virus. Lessthan 1% of people bitten by these infectedmosquitoes develop serious complications from thevirus; the remainder exhibit flu-like symptoms, or nosymptoms at all. Those at highest risk are the elderlyand people with weakened immune systems; it isimportant tho for all people to protect themselves frommosquito bites to minimize the risk of infection.

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PeggyHash

Early in May of this year, I leapt atthe phone and at the chance to spend mysummer as an intern at Three Rivers AvianCenter. After an introduction to the center and thework involved, I was (thankfully) accepted andbegan my internship on June 5th. As a youngteenager, I’d seen one of TRAC’s programs at thelocal library which channeled my interest in birdstoward a valuable cause. Conservation hadalways been an area of interest for me...and now Ihad found an outlet for it - and all without Algebra2! It is thanks to the initiative of my senior-yearbiology teacher, with whom I shared thisaspiration some six years after seeing TRAC’s“WV Birds of Prey” program, I finally gotconnected.

The perks of the job are obvious. Livingand working around the stammer-inducingelegance of raptors is a pleasure and a privilege,not to mention an opportunity I could not pass up.I get to interact at eye-level with what manypeople see only as a print in a field guide or as anindiscernible speck in the sky. The release of apatient evokes the sort of elation you wouldimagine, but on a scale I cannot describe exceptto say it is a singular joy one can derive from noother source.

At the other end of the spectrum, the painor death of a patient inflicts on me the oppositebut equal emotional response. Both pain anddeath are a jolt to the eyes and a shock to theheart, but they are an inevitability one mustexpect and prepare for. In my mind however,these negatives do not give me reason to quit. Infact, they are the only reason to continue. Noother aspect of the job is as hard, physical oremotional. (By the way, as daunting as “rat detail”may understandably seem to some, I like to say itis not nearly as discouraging as the horrors thatmost other teenagers and I have encounteredworking in the fast-food industry!)

In addition to the daily tasks at the Center,Megan and I also experience a broader range ofactivity and horizons. Chip, TRAC’s broadwinghawk, and Ginger, a long-eared owl, immediatelycome to mind. Hopefully you’ve already met Chip,whom I speak about at programs. She has so farbeen the ideal glove-bird, usually so well behavedthat despite her beak and talons never being farfrom my mind, I mentally depended on her duringmy first few programs. “We’re up here together,Chip.” Ginger, on the other hand, is also apleasure, but for a different reason–the fact thatshe is more difficult. Admittedly, I do enjoy achallenge, but also no one is more qualified thanGinger to teach me how to untwist jesses, copewith launching birds, and balled feet (a tacticraptors use to reject the glove by clenching theirtalons in a closed fist and opting to roll off theglove and swing upside-down by the tether), aswell as how to perfect the “butt-grab” (a harmlessyet rapid technique I use to correct the latter twostunts).

It’s safe to say that hands-on learning is aneveryday exercise here at TRAC. There is alsomuch to say for the scientific literature I now haveaccess to, as well as the wealth of expertise thePerrones are willing to share with me, rangingfrom ornithology, biology, and ecology, to powertools, public speaking, and avian first-aid.

In the three months I’ve spent trailblazingaround West Virginia doing programs, I’ve seenmore of the State than I’ve ever known in myeighteen years. If I didn’t already know better, Iwould not have guessed the peaks and valleys tobelong to my native State. But above all, whatsatisfies me the most is that I am working for animportant purpose. Birds of prey deserve theirplace in West Virginia in their own right, and afterspeaking to a myriad of enthusiastic individualsaround the State, I’m relieved that I’m not the onlyone who wants them here. I’m grateful for theopportunity to actively counteract the threats toour native avian wildlife and to contribute to WestVirginia’s ecological diversity rather than sittingstill, shaking my head and throwing my hands upat the dire statistics I know we’ve all read. Thesebirds are easily nature’s most impressivetestament to evolution. I’m glad to be a part ofmaking sure they will be here for generations tocome.

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MeganHash

Whomp! A blunt, high speed object hits myliving room window and disappears into the front yard.My two sisters, older brother and I stampede out intothe lawn to investigate. After a few moments ofinvestigation, our posse discovers an olive-green birdlying seemingly comatose in the grass. The rescuesquad springs into action. Someone stands guardover the patient while another on of us chases awaythe family cat. Meanwhile, I bound into thegarage/laundry room to retrieve a pair of oldunderwear that we use to transport our patient into anantique bird cage to protect it from our strictly “outsidecat”. We wait and watch. After a while there is atwitch. Then in an instant, he shoots himself skyward,his soft green head protruding through the bars. Hehas red eyes. Fearing he might injure himself, weopen the cage door to let him fly out the front but aftera few panicky moments, the little creature indignantlypushes himself through the bars and into a nearbytree. With mixed feelings of wonder and relief, I gawkat him until he flits out of sight. Lasting about tenminutes, this was my first, albeit brief experience inavian rehab.

Even though that was almost ten years ago, Ifind myself experiencing similar sentiments now that Iam involved with professional avian rehabilitation. Ifeel the same fascination with being THIS CLOSE toa real live wild animal, the same simultaneous feelingof attachment and relief when it flies away. The bigdifference is that the tiny red-eyed vireo has nowincarnated itself into three screech owls, a barred owl,an army of American kestrels, and several othervarieties of raptor. In the past couple of months, Ihave held, wrangled, and even been wing-whackedby birds I never thought I would see.

I have read before that even educated peopleonce assumed wild animals to be nothing more thanvapid, non-sentient vessels of impulse. Apparentlythese people didn’t spend much time around theirobject of study. In the past two months at ThreeRivers Avian Center, I’m sure I have observedbehavior in raptors that can be interpreted in no other

way but comradery, playfulness, and evenmanipulation.

My internship at TRAC has furthermoreprovided me with plenty of skills I was never taught inhigh school. In addition to lessons in ornithology andtaxonomy, I can now claim at least some experiencein lawn mowing, deck building, and four-wheeling...notto mention the inexplicable joy that is post-holedigging. (Insert sarcasm here.) However, I am happyto say that life at TRAC hasn’t been all work and noplay. Not only have I had a free tour of much of thestate, but I have also had the opportunity to beintroduced to an entire community of gifted, highlylikeable and diverse people. In addition to that, nearlyeveryone I’ve met, on the road or otherwise, fullyaware I’m not even nineteen yet, has regarded mewith sincere, friendly, and non-stereotyped interest.

As anyone who has visited would know,Brooks Mountain is certainly a tribute to theenvironmental community. TRAC and its surroundingarea on the top of the Mountain is a bird-watcher’sparadise too. Just since last night, I have seen a wildbarred owl, towhees, cedar-waxwings, blue jays, onehooded warbler, ruby-throated hummingbirds, severalAmerican goldfinches, an onslaught of Northerncardinals and a downy woodpecker.

Because of the endless menagerie of green,feathered, and furry life here, I imagine that ThreeRivers Avian Center could get anyone enthusiasticabout protecting the environment and wildlife. Equallyimportant, this is a place that also gives people anoutlet to do so. In addition to providing empoweringinformation to the public about conservation, theinternship that TRAC offers is an effective way ofsimultaneously educating future professionals whilemaking a contribution. Before now, the sole merit ofeducation in my life has been to know something nowin order to get something later. Working for ThreeRivers Avian Center has been my most rewardingendeavor so far because ironically, the goal is to givesomething back.

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All Creatures Veterinary ClinicAnne &Warren Ballard

Evelyn Bradley & Fred GilkeyBrooks Bird Club

Joyce & Randall BroylesTerry & Evan Buck

Jo & William CaudillCharles River LabsGary & Betty Ellis

Mike FormanGood Shepherd Veterinary Hospital

Bill, Sherry & Katie Grimes

Handlan Chapter -Brooks Bird ClubRoger Hardway

Huntington / Tri-State Audubon Soc.Cheryl Melkonian

Mountain State Land & Timber Co.David & Sherry PatickFerdi & Chris Perrone

Kenneth & Nancy PlantsRicky & Jessica Smith

Roy SmithMr & Mrs James Wiseman

(Your name could be here too!)

Many Thanks to our Sponsors:

HC 74 Box 279 Brooks, WV 25951304-466-4683 www.tracwv.org

Your name, a loved one’s name or your group or company’s name can be listed here for an annual donation of $150 or more.Your donation is fully tax-deductible and will help advance the work of Three Rivers Avian Center.

A special thank you goes to our Grantors:The Schoenbaum Family Foundation The Oakland Foundation

WV Trophy Hunters Association Dupont Belle Plant Wildlife Committee

Saving birds & educating youth in West Virginia

An IRS Registered 501(c)3 Tax-exempt Organization