Grant to Wildlife Partner Sea Biscuit Wildlife Shelter
posted: February 18, 2025, 12:57 PM
This is For the Birds…….
The Holden Beach Turtle Patrol, has made a $2,000 Grant to wildlife partner, The Sea Biscuit Wildlife Shelter on Oak Island. Sea Biscuit is a 503(c)(3) non-profit organization with an all-volunteer staff dedicated to providing medical treatment for hooked, netted, or otherwise injured or orphaned or sick, wild coastal birds. The Shelter acts like a hospital, recovery and rehabilitation center for endangered coastal bird species and every animal brought there. Sea Biscuit takes in more than 400 patients each year. The Holden Beach Turtle Patrol routinely coordinates getting sick and injured birds found on Holden Beach to Mary Ellen at Sea Biscuit, so they can be cared for.
Mary Ellen said the Grant may be used for the purchase of an X-Ray machine, or for expenses for the “new” Sea Biscuit Wildlife Shelter which is being constructed on 4-acres owned by Duke Energy, adjacent to Oak Island’s Bill Smith Park. She hopes to relocate her patients and open the new, expanded Shelter at the new site in March.
Picture positions from left to right, Pat Cusack- Holden Beach Turtle Watch Program Coordinator, John Cifelli-HBTW President, Mary Ellen Rogers-President of Sea Biscuit Wildlife Shelter, Maryk McGinley HBTW Treasurer, photographed by Donna McGowan- HBTP Director-at-Large
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