Invite us
Bring the rescue to your school or event.
Tell us about your event and Amanda will get back to you about dates and what a visit could look like.
- Schools and classrooms
- Libraries and community programs
- Scouts, clubs and camps
- Fairs, festivals and fundraisers
Want to know where we will be next? Upcoming events go out in the monthly newsletter.
Questions
Visits, asked and answered.
Who do you visit?
Schools and classrooms, libraries and community programs, scouts, clubs and camps, and fairs, festivals and fundraisers across the Eastern Shore.
What does a visit look like?
Amanda brings the rescue to you and teaches responsible, lifelong care for exotic birds. Put the ages and the size of the group on the form so she can plan for them.
How do I book one?
Send the request form with a date or a few options, and Amanda will get back to you. Upcoming events go out in the monthly newsletter.
What a room full of children learns from one bird.
How long a parrot lives
Longer than most children expect, and sometimes longer than the person who bought them. That one fact is the start of every conversation about responsible, lifelong care, and it lands harder when the bird is sitting on Amanda’s arm.
What they eat and how they think
Pellets, vegetables and fruit rather than a bowl of seed; a brain that solves puzzles, learns words and gets bored; a flock animal that needs company. Children ask the best questions, and the answers are the lessons.
Why rescues exist
Every bird at Mid Atlantic Bird Rescue once belonged to someone. A visit explains, gently, how that happens and how to be the kind of owner it does not happen to. For older groups it is a conversation about commitment; for the youngest it is a bird, up close, and wonder.
How to be around a bird
Calm voices, slow hands, no sudden running. The group practices it before the bird comes out, and it is a lesson that travels: the same rules keep a child safe around any animal they meet.
Tell us the ages and the size of the group on the form and Amanda will plan the visit around them. A quiet room, chairs for the children and no other animals in the space is all a visit needs from you. Libraries and community programs get the same visit scaled for a mixed crowd; scouts and camps tend to want the hands-on version, with more time for questions. Fairs and fundraisers are a different shape again, a table and a bird and a steady stream of people, and they are where the rescue meets the families who adopt a year later. If a date is not fixed yet, send the form anyway with a few options and the season you have in mind, and Amanda will come back to you with what works. Every visit is free to ask about; what it costs, if anything, depends on the distance and the day, and she will say so before anything is booked. Teachers: a visit fits a life-science unit on animals and habitats, a lesson on responsibility, or an assembly, and the questions the children bring are usually better than the plan. If your school or group has a policy on animals in the building, send it along with the request and Amanda will work inside it; most do, and none of them have been a problem yet. The one thing a visit cannot be is a petting zoo: the birds are handled by Amanda, and the children learn to be around them, which is the lesson.
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