OPHELIA…a Black Beauty

OPHELIA…a Black Beauty

By Janet Trumbule, Executive Director of Administration – August 22, 2013 If you’ve had a chance to visit the sanctuary this article will make you think back and smile. If not…let me introduce you to Ophelia, our resident Black Lory.…

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Gandalf, The Wizard

Gandalf, The Wizard

By Ruth Ann La Rue, Intake/Foster Care - March 22, 2014 J. R. R. Tolkien’s trilogy, The Lord of the Rings, includes a fictional character Gandalf the Wizard. Tolkien describes Gandalf as one who “seemed the least, less tall than…

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Archie And Edith

Archie and Edith

By Sybil Erden, Founder – October 2014 Archie and Edith came to us, shipped in large crates, along with Phillipe and Pricilla, from a breeder in southern Florida in 1994. They were wild-caught retired breeding pairs of Macaws. Phillipe and…

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Phillipe Macaw

Phillipe Macaw

  Phillipe The Early Years By Sybil Erden, Founder Phillipe was one of the first Macaws to come to my home in 1997, in the days before The Oasis became a non-profit. We had already applied for incorporation and non-profit status,…

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