Mount Vernon Songbird Sanctuary, Inc.

Dedicated to the conservation of migratory songbirds through education, rehabilitation, and preservation of their habitat.

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Who we are -

Mount Vernon Songbird Sanctuary is a non - profit charitable organization, founded and run by Jayne Neville with the help of of volunteers. We are based in Central Connecticut on 4 1/2 acres of beautiful songbird habitat. The Sanctuary has a rehabilitation area with a small building and three flight cages, a pavilion with attached chimney that provide a nesting site for  the declining chimney swifts and barn swallows, along with extensive gardens, natural areas with native plants,a pond, feeding station with waterfall, and wooded, open and early successional habitat.


What we do -

Our expertise is primarily on insectivores with greatest conservation needs,  including warblers, flycatchers, chimney swifts and swallow species. Jayne also has extensive knowledge and experience with woodpeckers, hummingbirds, waxwings, grosbeaks, orioles, tanagers, kingfishers, woodcock, snipe and killdeer.

At this time we only handle limited numbers of adult birds for rehabilitation.We are unable to handle most orphaned young dealing only with adult birds.  If you have found a small migratory songbird or any of the birds mentioned above that need immediate assistance, please call at (860)-681-1190, email cannot always be checked.

For more information on whether a bird needs assistance, please see our page I found a songbird

We do not any mammals or larger birds such as doves, blue jays, grackles, crows, hawks, owls and waterfowl, or non - migratory birds such as house sparrows, starlings and pigeons.


To find another rehabilitator, click a link below

For a list of Connecticut rehabilitators,  grouped  town and by the species handled, go to the CT DEP link http://www.ct.gov/dep/cwp/view.asp?a=2723&q=326228&depNav_GID=1655

For help on other wildlife problems, or assistance go to www.wildlifehotline.org

For more information about Connecticuts wildlife  you can visit the website of Connecticut wildlife rehabilitators association at  www.cwra.org

Photos of birds that were cared for at the sanctuary
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Since 1998, we have admitted over two thousand birds, totaling 102 different species, listed below.

American Crow*
American Goldfinch**
American Robin*
American Woodcock
Baltimore Oriole
Bank Swallow
Barn Swallow
Belted Kingfisher
Black and White Warbler
Black-billed Cuckoo
Black-capped Chickadee
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Blue Jay*
Blue-winged Warbler
Bobolink
Brown-headed Cowbird*
Brown Thrasher
Canada Goose*
Carolina Wren
Cedar Waxwing
Chimney Swift
Chipping Sparrow
Cliff Swallow
Common Grackle*
Common Merganser*
Common Nighthawk
Common Tern*
Common Yellowthroat
Connecticut Warbler
Dark-eyed Junco
Downy Woodpecker


Eastern Bluebird
Eastern Kingbird
Eastern Phoebe
European Starling*
Field Sparrow
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Gray Catbird
Great Crested Flycatcher
Hairy Woodpecker
Hermit Thrush
Horned Grebe*
Horned Lark
House Finch**
House Sparrow*
House Wren
Killdeer
Least Tern*
Magnolia Warbler
Mallard*
Mourning Dove**
Nashville Warbler
Northern Cardinal*
Northern Flicker
Northern Mockingbird*
Northern Parula
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Northern Waterthrush
Ovenbird
Pileated Woodpecker
Pine Siskin**
Pine Warbler
Purple Finch**

Red-bellied Woodpecker
Red-breasted Nuthatch

Red-eyed Vireo
Red-winged Blackbird
Ring-billed Gull*
Ring-necked Pheasant*
Rock Pigeon*
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Rufous Hummingbird
Scarlet Tanager
Song Sparrow
Spotted Sandpiper
Summer Tanager
Swainson's Thrush
Swamp Sparrow
Traills' Flycatcher
Tree Swallow
Tufted Titmouse
Virginia Rail
Whip-poor-will
White-breasted Nuthatch
White-throated Sparrow
White-winged Crossbill
Wild Turkey*
Willet
Wilson's Snipe
Winter Wren
Wood Duck*
Wood Thrush
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Yellow-throated Vireo
Yellow Warbler


* Denotes birds that we do not care for which are either non-migratory, non-native, predatory, waterfowl, common, or large species.
** Denotes birds that are strickly seed eating birds.  We only admit these as adults when room permitting.

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