We redesigned our logo.

In the words of candy packaging, new look, same great taste. This is to say that while our logo has changed, none of the services we provide will be affected in any way. We plan to serve Pennsylvania’s wildlife well into the future.

Why we chose the chickadee to represent our organization

Our rationale can best be understood in the words of Tom Brown Jr. in The Tracker:

Every animal had some characteristic to admire and emulate…But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit…In the coldest weather, when other birds have gone into the brush to wait behind a dome of driven snow for the weather to clear, the chickadee is always out, his chickadee-dee-dee ringing off the snow. When the fox has curled himself under a small tree and let the snow drift him a blanket of insulation, the chickadee is out doing loop-the-loops over the seedless snow, calling louder than playing children that he is there and alive and happy about it!…nobody flies with more reckless abandon than the chickadee, and nobody flies with more delight. The chickadee lives by joyous faith in living. Whenever everything else curls up and prepares to wait, or die, the chickadee is out in the middle of it. I have heard them even in the middle of a blizzard, chirping with that dancing tone over and over into the cold air, as if it thinks that hiding from a storm is the craziness form of self denial. His voice comes out of the cold silence like the last voice in the world, singing that everything which has gone under the snow is neither lost nor dead and that life survives beautifully somewhere else and will return. There is joy in its song that says that everybody who is hiding from the storm is missing the best part.

We agree!

So, as we go forward, we will continue to follow our mission, treating all wildlife species with prompt, appropriate, humane care - come what may - and with a touch of joy - just like the chickadee.