Now you can send a very special Christmas card to everyone on your list and help wildlife at the same time!

For each donation of $10 or more to help injured and orphaned wildlife, we will send a beautiful full-color Christmas card to someone on your list.  Select from the pictures below and learn a little about each animal.

Your gift helps wild creatures in need!
A $10 card helps care for 2 animals for a week.
A $15 card helps care for 3 animals for a week.
A $20 card helps care for 4 animals for a week.

How to order:

1. Scroll through the photos below and select the cards you would like to order.  (All online transactions are secured through PayPal.)

2. After placing your order, please e-mail us at wildlife@awrc.org with the following information:

	Your name (as you wish to have it printed on the card).
	How many cards of each design you wish to order.
	The names and addresses where we will send the cards.  (If you have ordered more than one design, please indicate who should receive which design)

These fledgling White-eyed Vireos were separated from their parents in May of 2007 when suburban homeowners accidentally clipped away the branches supporting their nest in a privet hedge.  The intact nest containing four young nestlings was later discovered in the pile of branches about to be discarded.  The homeowners called the Center’s Wildlife Hotline, and a skilled volunteer made several attempts to replace the nest where the adult Vireos would find it, but the effort was unsuccessful.  At the Alabama Wildlife Center, the nestlings were placed in an incubator and were hand fed every half hour for 12 hours a day until they were old enough to begin eating on their own.  To prepare them for release, they spent several weeks in a naturally furnished flight cage, where this photograph was taken.  The three surviving Vireos were released in good habitat in June of 2007.

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This magnificent Barred Owl was found on the ground in a Montevallo park when it was only a nestling, about one month old, still covered with soft, gray down.  A passer-by saw the little owl being attacked by crows, and brought it to the Alabama Wildlife Center.  Upon arrival, the owlet was weak and shivering, with a deep wound extending from its thigh to its abdomen, apparently caused by the crows.   Over a month of medical treatments were required to heal the infected wound, and by then the young owl was no longer a good candidate for release.  Now named Coosa, the owl has been trained to participate in educational programs, and is a permanent resident at the Alabama Wildlife Center.

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This Barred Owl was found hanging by one wing, hopelessly entangled in a barbed wire fence in Lamar County in August of 2006. The landowner summoned a Conservation Officer, who cut the barbed wire and turned the bird over to the Alabama Wildlife Center.  The wing was seriously damaged, and required over a month of painstaking daily medical treatments, followed by several additional months of exercise in a flight cage.  Miraculously, the bird recovered full use of the wing, and was returned to its home territory in Lamar County, where the landowner had removed the dangerous barbed-wire fence.  A number of owl species hunt by flying low over open fields in search of small rodents, and the Alabama Wildlife Center rescues many owls each year that have been trapped in the wire, which is invisible in low light. 

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