Gift Shop, Education Center, & Hospital - Florida Keys Wild Bird Center

Elizabeth Nall

2024-05

A great place to stop in and visit. They help injured wildlife so they need all the help they can get. They have an informative visitor center and gifts you can buy to help support their rehabilitation work. The staff is very friendly and knowledgeable. I highly recommend going to visit this site and their sanctuary site where you can see the birds they've helped.

Sarah Semlear

2018-05

Love this place! Really wonderful to see the rescued birds, you can also walk down to a beautiful little beach. It's free to enter, but you can donate via a touch screen and card reader at the end. The staff was very nice and very knowledgeable. The parking gets a little tight, especially during busy times.

Abby Ham

2023-05

This place is absolutely gorgeous and the animals are taken care of very well. Most of the birds have their own plaques that contain facts on the species of bird it’s correlated to. Most of them also include the animals’ names and their stories. It also runs off of donations.

Don Bullens

2023-05

One of my favorite places to visit in the keys. I have been taking photo here since the early 1980's Sadly, the hurricanes have been very unkind to the areas near the salt marsh. Still I highly recommend a visit.

Matthew Gooding

2022-05

It is amazing the work they are doing to save birds and the habitat. We went to the visitor center and gift shop plus the actual bird sanctuary. It was heartbreaking reading what happened to some of the birds, but cool that they still get a high quality of life. I loved the owls the best, I had never seen so many and so up close.

Ashley Romnosky

2020-05

The sanctuary was wonderful. Very clean and had facts on the type of bird as well as the bird's personal story; whoever did the naming was very creative. We left there feeling like bird experts. The beach at the end of the walk was a wonderful place to watch the sunset as well.

Jared Menendez

2019-05

Beautiful little sanctuary. You can get pretty close to these birds. I stopped by early morning when the staff was feeding the birds, all were very friendly and welcoming. They survive on donations so PLEASE leave what u can for the birds and the wonderful staff who care for them.

Your Helpful Wendy

2021-05

This place was on my list and I’m glad we went.It was on our way to Key West so it was great.Entrance is free also parking.We got to walk around this place that looks small but it’s not. Filled with so many birds with information and a nice pathway to walk through and connect with the birds.The best part was at the end when we reached to the beach and we were able to enjoy that amazing view.

Sadat

2019-05

This is a bird sanctuary for the birds who need rehabilitation. I really appreciated the people who have got this place get going to help these birds. Entry is free however they appreciate a donation for this fantastic work did keep doing. There is also a picturesque beach at the back of this place to take some insta pics. We enjoyed looking at parrots, owls , hawks and other various birds. If you do have some time, visit this place and enjoy the downtime

Mary Ann Morrison

2024-02

What a wonderful place and what a responsibility they are filling, taking care of injured birds and returning as many as possible to the wild. Don't forget to go down the street to the gift shop/info center. I picked a nice t-dhirt for under $25.

Greg Rosenberg

2019-05

The Laura Quinn Wild Bird Sanctuary is a peacful stop when driving in the Keys. The sanctuary has over 100 birds that can no longer be released into the wild. Admission is free, but they accept donations which help them take care of the birds. Expect to spend 30 minutes here.

Matt DoCampo

2019-05

Great stop! Admission is free but they ask for donations. You can leave cash in a bin, or they have an iPad setup at a kiosk so you can do so with a credit card!

Paulina Leyva

2019-05

Great place, they do amazing work rescuing local avian wildlife. Must visit if you're traveling in the Keys! Free entrance but please leave a donation to support the rescue efforts.

Karen Emmett

2018-05

So worth the stop! Free, and no staff to check in with but you will want to donate a couple dollars at least after you see the work they do for these birds. Bring cash or they have a card reader setuo for donation. Short easy walk to see all the birds. Free parking area.

Matt Morgan

2019-05

Loved this hidden gem! Great way to spend an hour and the work they do here is highly commendable. Make sure to sign the guestbook and leave a donation ($5 per person recommended.

Deb Love

2019-05

The trail along the water through the mangroves is very nice. The birds they have are well cared for, a wide variety, some were injured in the hurricanes and others hit by cars and many other types of injuries. The ones that cannot go back into the wild are being well taken care of.

Maggie Bai

2020-05

A really cool place! Kids love the birds. It’s such a surprise to see a well organized wild bird Sanctuary on the way to key west.

Tia Thompson

2023-05

So glad we stopped in for a visit! Head down the road to visit the birds at the sanctuary too.

Tejaswini Lele

2019-05

On the way to Key west, if you have 30 mins to spare do visit this wild bird sanctuary. Admission is free, you can give donations later if you wish too. Kids will love this spot.

Kelly McKay

2017-05

What an awesome place! See some cute birds both in and out of cages. Gorgeous location. The boardwalk leads you right to the waterfront. I was pleasantly surprised by this sanctuary! Lucky birds!

Joshua Olszewski

2019-05

This place is so great. It’s run off of donations- so please consider when visiting. So many beautiful birds and the staff were feeding when we visited. Also check out the visitor center about 2 MM down.

Alan Meltzer

2019-05

Fantastic place where volunteers read birds in need and you can visit them. Great short stop, remember to donate!

Ginka Nikolov

2019-05

You get to see several owls, a bunch of other birds. It's not big, but it's good. They don't charge admission, just donations.

Mike Heuf

2019-05

A place for birds with a problem. There they can get better to go back to nature again or they can stay to still have a good live with there health problem. Please visit and make a donation, really worth it!

Justin Humphries

2019-05

We usually stop to see the birds, some of whom have been friends of ours for years. We always leave a modest donation and talk to the parrots. There's also a cool little trail out the back that leads to one of the most "natural" views of the gulf Waters you can find.

Dan Hyman

2019-05

Beautiful little place to visit and see lovely birds being kindly looked after following injury. My two little kids loved it. Donation optional but you should donate to help them with their kind and dedicated work.

Jeremy Wells

2020-05

Very low key place, which was nice. The birds had the space they needed and the ones caged there are birds that cannot be released due to injury, so it seems they do really good work.

Alex Ram

2017-05

Very pleasant place and very well kept. Highly recommended it. Free access and free entrance, Tips and Donations accept.

E

2022-05

I called a few days ago with a very unique and specific question about how to clean snake saliva off of a chick and the woman on the phone was the absolute friendliest! She told me how to properly give a baby bird a Dawn soap bath (I didn’t even know there was a specific way to do it! Dawn customer line recommended I call a bird sanctuary bc of it) told me how to tell if she’s badly hurt or just sore and even taught me a bit about snakes! She was so helpful and it was so sweet that she thanked me for caring so much :’) Thanks a ton FL Keys Wild Bird Rehab center!(My chick is fine btw! Bump on her foot went down and she’s playing around with the other chicks again. Just a bald spot on her wing. You would have never guessed she was pulled out of a snake’s mouth two days ago lol)

Yuan XIE

2020-05

Awesome bird sanctuary with many bird species! Highly recommend for bird lovers. Please donate to help supporting this awesome place!