Mount Vernon Songbird Sanctuary, Inc.

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 our focus is with educational programs on rehabilitation and conservation.  

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.

At this time we are unable to handle most orphaned young dealing only with adult birds. 

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

We do not handle 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.

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

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