Wildlife Center of the North Coast
Promoting compassion, empathy and respect for all life through wildlife rehabilitation and ecological teachings.
"WCNC" is a volunteer based non-profit Oregon corporation with IRS 501(c)(3) tax exempt status. Our mission is to rehabilitate injured, sick, orphaned and displaced native wildlife with the goal of releasing healthy, viable wildlife back into the appropriate habitat. We operate under permits issued by the Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife and the US Fish & Wildlife Service. Our licensed rehabber is Executive Director Sharnelle Fee.
Wildlife Center of the North Coast is the only wildlife care hospital on the Central and North Oregon coast and provides professional medical care for all native wild birds and animals. We assist over 2,000 wildlife patients each year. Our Center is an ALL-VOLUNTEER organization with 100% of each donation dollar going directly to the care of wildlife.
We do not receive funding from any government agencies. Our Center relies totally on public donations and special-event fundraisers to pay for its daily operation.
Who we are
Injured Wildlife HelpLine: (503) 338-3954
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Special Note
US Fish and Wildlife releases press release on January 25, 2010:
Brown Pelicans Dying on the Oregon Coast (pdf)
The Wildlife Center of the North Coast is doing necropsies on all dead pelicans that come into our facility. All of the pelicans we have seen are highly emaciated and some have inappropriate food in their stomach (i.e. chicken bones with no meat, bread, etc.)
Pelicans have very specific diets and cannot process or receive nutrients from food items outside of their diet. Large bones may puncture delicate internal organs and lead to accelerated death of the bird. Also hand feeding of pelicans leads to habituation to humans and the pelicans may become a nuisance to some fish processing plants. Unfortunately, this week, a pelican was illegally killed at one such plant in Newport because it was "in the way" of their operation.