Adopt an Animal

Adopt an Animal

Symbolically adopting an animal is an exciting way to support KNC’s Animal Ambassadors Program and learn more about these amazing animals.

Your adoption helps to provide care for an animal at KNC, gives an unreleasable animal a permanent home (they will live and be cared for here at KNC), and supports educational programming.

Meet & Greet with your Adopted Animal  For an additional $20, you can meet your adopted animal with a trained educator ready to answer your questions.

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Adopt a Hummingbird

The Kalamazoo Valley Bird Observatory (KVBO) has been using bird banding as a tool to help better understand migration patterns, longevity, dispersal and stop over of both breeding and migrating birds at our two locations, the Kalamazoo Nature Center and Pitsfield, for over 30 years.

Symbolically adopting a hummingbird is a unique and rewarding way to help our bird banding program and contribute to our bird banding program studies.

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Adopt a Butterfly

Your adoption supports KNC’s Michigan Butterfly Network (MiBN) in the research of Michigan’s changing populations and quality of Michigan ecosystems. It also suports our engagement of the Michigan public in significant community science research.

The MiBN hosts butterfly monitor training each spring, as well as public butterfly field trips to natural areas around Kalamazoo. Learn more on the MiBN and upcoming programs here.

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