Wild Bird Fund Will Nest In Park Slope

PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN — The Wild Bird Fund is about to roost in Park Slope.

The wildlife rehabilitation and education group's first Brooklyn outpost soon will open at 183 Seventh. Ave in a former nail salon near Second Street, it confirmed in a tweet (no pun intended).

"Well, we *have* provided a lot of pedicures over the years (to hawks, swans, pigeons...)," the tweet states.

Cheekiness — or is it beakiness? — aside, Wild Bird Fund's new location brings it just two blocks away from Prospect Park.

The park, as many bird-loving Brooklynites know, is an avian haven. A bald eagle, for example, recently took up perch there and started harassing local ducks.

Wild Bird Fund chose the location for its proximity to the park, as well as its backyard with room for outdoor flight cages for recovering birds, Brownstoner first reported.

It's a far cry from the group's original location along Columbus Avenue near 87th Street in Manhattan, in what its website calls "the heart of the concrete jungle."

The group will launch a capital campaign in February to help raise funds for the space, which will take about six months to open, according to the Brownstoner report.

When the location opens, Wild Bird Fund will work to fulfill its mission of rescuing and rehabilitating sick, injured or orphaned birds and small mammals and releasing them back to the "wilds of New York City," as the group's website states.

And, soon, those wilds will be just two blocks away.