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Rehabilitated barred owl released April 16. Photo by Anne Boivin
Welcome to The Center for Wildlife in Cape Neddick, Maine. For more than twenty years, our wildlife rehabilitation facility, its staff and volunteers have provided care for sick and injured wildlife until they can be released back into the wild.
The Center's mission also extends to providing information and education to the general public - raising awareness of the many wonderful wild species that live among us and a heightened sensitivity to the impacts we humans have on their lives.
Today, the Center treats over 1500 animals a year and is one of the largest rehabilitators in New England.
Spring is such a glorious time to get reconnected with the natural world around us. After a long and very white winter, at last we are witnessing the annual explosion of green that naturally graces our local backyards and forests. But even before those early crocuses emerged and new buds started popping, quite a lot has been going on underneath all that snow and ice in preparation for the longer, warmer days ahead.
Quietly waiting in our woods, dozens of vernal pool wetlands have become temporary nurseries for thousands of animals – some that you can only see with a microscope! Choruses of wood frogs and spring peepers have joined the melodies of songbirds returning to their nesting sites, and these vernal pools will be teeming with life. We are lucky to have so many of these little natural laboratories available to us for observation here in our community.
Read more about vernal pools and the spotted turtles that rely upon them.
Copyright © 2007 The Center for Wildlife
P.O. Box 620
Cape Neddick, ME 03902
(207) 361-1400
York Land Trust has made 2008 the Year of the Owl. Read more about the owls in our woods.