Who we are - Mount Vernon Songbird Sanctuary is a non - profit charitable organization, founded and run by Jayne Amico with the help of a dedicated group 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 -Mount Vernon Songbird Sanctuary strictly specializes in caring for small migratory songbirds. We focus our expertise on insectivores with greatest conservation needs, including warblers, flycatchers, chimney swifts and all swallow species. We also care for woodpeckers, hummingbirds, waxwings, grosbeaks, orioles, tanagers, kingfishers, woodcock, snipe and killdeer.
If you have found a small migratory songbird or any of the birds mentioned above that need immediate assistance, please call us at (860)-276-8433, for during busy times email cannot always be checked. We are open from 8am to 6pm, closed on Sunday and Mondays. 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.
Since 1998, we have admitted nearly two thousand birds, totaling 100 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* 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**
* 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.
To contact us
phone (860) 276-8433
emailjayne@mvssanctuary.org please call if you have a bird that needs assistance since e-mail is not checked as often
