Province of Quebec

 Perroquetsecours

Here are the official statistics from the Perroquetsecours website for the year 2021. These statistics only contain birds that were listed and reported lost/stolen/found in Quebec only in 2021.

• Birds listed as lost (612) and stolen (5): 617 total (including 6 amazons, 7 macaws, 2 cockatoos, 0 caiques, 218 cockatiels, 66 conures, 0 eclectus, 19 African greys, 53 lovebirds, 0 loris and lorikeets , 171 small budgies, ringnecks and other long tail parakeets, 1 pionus, 24 poicephalus, 25 quakers, 17 parottlets and linoleated parakeets and 8 whose species were not mentioned or of any other species).
• Birds listed as lost and stolen that have found their homes: 239 total (including 5 amazons, 6 macaws, 2 cockatoos, 0 caiques, 78 cockatiels, 36 conures, 0 eclectus, 10 African greys, 17 lovebirds, 0 loris and lorikeets, 54 small budgies, ringnecks and other long tail parakeets, 1 pionus, 14 poicephalus, 10 quakers, 4 parottlets and linoleated parakeets and 2 whose species were not mentioned or of any other species).
• Birds listed as lost which have unfortunately died: 6 total (including 3 conures, 1 African grey and 2 small budgies).
• Bird listed as found or seen: 602 total (including 1 amazon, 2 macaws, 2 cockatoos, 0 caique, 94 cockatiels, 43 conures, 0 eclectus, 4 African greys, 70 lovebirds, 0 loris and lorikeets, 312 small budgies, ringnecks and other long tail parakeets , 0 pionus, 3 poicephalus, 6 quakers, 3 parottlets and linoleated parakeets and 62 whose species were not mentioned or of any other species).
• Bird listed as found that have found their home: 90 total (including 0 amazons, 1 macaw, 0 cockatoos, 0 caiques, 28 cockatiels, 10 conures, 0 eclectus, 2 African greys, 14 lovebirds, 0 loris and lorikeets, 26 small budgies, ringnecks and other long tail parakeets, 0 pionus, 3 poicephalus, 2 quakers, 1 parottlet and linoleated parakeet and 3 whose species were not mentioned or of any other species).
• Birds listed as found or seen which have unfortunately died: total 30 (including 3 cockatiels, 4 lovebirds, 20 small budgies, ringnecks and other long tail parakeets, 1 quaker, 1 parottlet and linoleated parakeet and 1 whose species was not mentioned or of any other species).
• Birds that stayed in our foster families or partner shelters: 33 total (including 6 cockatiels, 8 conures, 2 African greys, 4 lovebirds, 9 small budgies, ringnecks and other long tail parakeets, 1 poicephalus and 3 whose species have no not been mentioned or of any other species).
• Birds that stayed in our foster families or partner shelters and were reunited with their families: 5 total (including 1 cockatiel, 2 conures and 2 African greys).
• Birds that stayed in our foster families or partner shelters and which unfortunately died: 2 total (including 1 lovebird and 1 small budgie).
• Birds that stayed in our host families or partner shelters and which were adopted: 26 total (including 5 cockatiel, 5 conures, 3 lovebirds, 7 small budgies, ringnecks and other long tail parakeets, 1 quaker and 4 whose species have not been mentioned or of any other species).
• Birds that are still in foster care or partner shelters from 2021: 0 ().
• Several birds required veterinary care or medication, including several cases of frostbite and extreme dehydration during 2021.
• 4 other birds which required our intervention and which are not listed found, lost or stolen (including 3 amazons returned to their owner after 2 months and 1 Goffin cockatoo which we took care of and which was adopted).
• Birds that have found an adoptive family or have benefited from our rehousing service: 52 total (including 1 macaw, 1 cockatoo, 1 caique, 10 cockatiels, 16 conures, 1 African grey, 4 lovebirds, 8 smal budgies, ringnecks and other long tail parakeets, 2 poicephalus, 2 quakers, 1 parottlet or linoleated parakeet, 1 finch, 3 canaries and exceptionally 1 dove).

Total birds lost/found/stolen/seen in 2021: 1219 total including 179 seen.

Total birds that have not been reunited with their families: 890 total.

Total birds that returned home: 329 total.

Total birds that unfortunately died: 36 total.

Average of all lost/found/seen/stolen birds combined with the people looking for them: 26.98 %

Average of birds lost or stolen only and which were reunited with their owners: 38.73 %

The Perroquetsecours organization will publish statistics and provide an annual report at the end of each fiscal year, to all donors who request it.

2021 results

Costs

Here is the summary of the costs absorbed by our organization in order to support Perroquetsecours in its mission in 2021 and which are directly linked to the birds in foster care:

Cost of veterinary care: 1440.00 $ Thank you to our generous veterinary partners for your help and support.

Cost of basic general care (food, cages, toys, vitamins etc.): 1771.00 $

These costs do not include indirectly related costs including the purchase of materials for making toys and promotional items, costs associated with our telephone line or hosting of our website, costs associated with our postal box or postal costs, printing costs for all the various documents necessary for the organization, banking and insurance costs or any costs associated with the mission of the organization.

Donations

We received from our generous donors the sum of 6204.00 $ in money, as well as 21 used cages for small and large parrots. We keep these cages in reserve for birds that will need to stay with foster families.

We have also been able to provide support ourselves to different organizations and shelters, by taking care of certain birds.

In order to respect people's confidentiality, only donors who request it will be mentioned. Every donation is important. It is thanks to your donations that the birds staying in foster families can be accommodated and obtain adequate care.

Perroquetsecours is a Registered Charity Organization, which means that your donation is entirely dedicated to our cause and entitles you to a provincial and federal tax credit.

In the name of all these birds…Thank you!

Promotional items

Our promotional items have been so popular that we have sold out all of our calendars in 2021, in addition to greeting cards, pencils, key rings, mouse pads, bookmarks, as well as toys, toy parts and various perches.

Thank you to everyone who supported our cause by purchasing one of our promotional items!

Order yours today at the following link:

https://www.perroquetsecours.com/boutique

Sponsorships from our partners

Here is the list of our generous sponsors, in alphabetical order:

-Chez Ailes, $225.00 in money

-La Grande Ménagerie, $225.00 in money

-La Volière, $54.00 in money

-Nature Pet Center, $225.00 in money

-Rolph C. Hagen inc, $775.90 in food for our foster families

-Zoomax is a proud partner of Perroquetsecours by offering its toys and toy parts at a price that allows us to offer them to you in return and which also allows us to provide toys to our foster families, for the birds they care for us.

Thank you so much to all our generous sponsors!

Thank you very much to all the boutiques, pet stores, partners of our cause, who offer us discounts or freebies, who sell our bags or who run promotions in order to help us.

Thank you also to the veterinarians, partners in our cause, who treat the birds we take care of with with the same consideration as if they were their own...Thank you!

Thank you to all our volunteers and partners who support our cause. It is thanks to your help and collaboration if 38% of birds, which are published on our website, find those who love them and are looking for them. It is by coming together that we achieve this accomplishment and it is through prevention that we will succeed in reducing the number of birds lost each year.

Thank you all for your support and for your involvement!