Alabama Wildlife Center, Wildlife rehabilitation center in Pelham, Alabama.
The Alabama Wildlife Center is a wildlife rehabilitation and education center in Oak Mountain State Park, Pelham, occupying the former Foothills Restaurant building. It treats nearly 1,800 native wild birds each year and is the largest and oldest rehabilitation center in Alabama. Visitors can take a self-guided tour and observe patients through one-way windows.
The center was founded in 1977 as a volunteer-run initiative and received nonprofit status in 1980. It relocated to its current location in Oak Mountain State Park in 1987.
The center runs over 500 public events a year on native wild birds and wildlife conservation. Visitors can watch patients through one-way windows, and the Treetop Nature Trail boardwalk holds six enclosures with non-releasable birds of prey, each with its own story.
The center sits inside Oak Mountain State Park and is open year-round with a self-guided tour. A quarter-mile hike links it to the Treetop Nature Trail Boardwalk, or a two-minute drive takes you there. Visitors can watch many patients through one-way windows.
The facility holds special federal permits to care for protected migratory bird species, a distinction that sets it apart in the region. This allows the team to work with bird types that cannot be treated at other locations.
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