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Bald Eagle Release Video
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MARS Farewell to Students
MARS students, Carissa, Lena & Betty were presented going away gifts by Reg, MARS' Supervisor of Wildlife Care on July 15, 2016. The three ended their term at MARS releasing 2 Great Blue Herons, 2 ducks and a dove on the same day as the going away...
New Wildlife Hospital & Interpretative Centre
MARS helps ill, injured, orphaned and oiled wildlife recover, then releases them back to into the wild. Our patient load has skyrocketed from just over 400 birds and mammals per year to over 700 in 2014 and nearly 800 this past year. It is a tribute to the ingenuity...
MARS Visitors Centre
This happy group of volunteers will be designing the visitor’s centre displays. For a sneak preview, and an opportunity to provide feedback, join us at the Wildlife festival on March 17!
Samantha (2010)
My time at Mountainaire Avian Rescue Society was a life changing experience. As a lifelong resident of rural western Washington, I have always loved the environment in which we live. However, before coming to MARS I did not appreciate the wide...
Lisa (2010)
Spending 6 weeks living at the Mountainaire Avian Rescue Society was certainly a drastic change from my life in downtown Vancouver. Despite many challenges, it was an incredible experience, one which I will never forget. The people, animals,...
Mallory (2009)
To quote Maj Birch, I will remember all aspects of my 8 week internship with Mountainaire Avian Rescue Society "fawn-dly." For approximately 6 weeks of my time at MARS we had five hungry fawns to feed beginning with 5 times a day, which was...
Mayuko
My internship at the Mountainaire Avian Rescue was an incredible experience. I had no knowledge about birds in Canada; I did not know what robins were, and had never seen real owls at home in Japan. No hummingbirds are found in Japan either....
Shawn (2006)
My internship at MARS was an amazing 2 month experience, I came in not knowing what to expect and came away with so much more than I could possibly have imagined. You learn so much in such a short time, you don’t realize how much learning you...
Chantal
Summarizing my two months at MARS is going to be much harder then I thought as I could probably write at least a page for each day. I think that says a lot about my experience here and how much I have learned in the skills of animal care, my...