How to Contact Us:   

Please review the below list of topics covered on this page of our website to see if there is section that pertains to your situation. If so, click on it to review directions, resources and/or links provided for you:

Rescue:  Wild Waterfowl (Mallard Ducks, Swans, Canada Geese, etc.)

Rescue:  Non-Flying Domestic Waterfowl (former pets who've been abandoned)

Surrendering a Pet Duck or Goose to Majestic (any duck or goose in your custody)

Medical Emergencies

School Hatching Programs & Ducklings

Pen-Building Materials & Supplies (Links to Diagrams)

Start Your Own Sanctuary (How-to Information)

Educational/School Research Project (Information for Students)

Adoption Inquiries

Joining our E-List (Receive our Monthly Newsletters)

Updating Your Email Address (For existing E-list members)

Phone Calls to Majestic

The Ultimate Pet Duck & Goose Guidebooks

Helpful Information Right At Your Fingertips (Quick Answers to FAQs)

Questions About YOUR Pet Duck or Goose (Not Covered Above)

If none of the above-listed topics relates to your situation, click on CONTACT FORM to jump down to the bottom of this page.

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Majestic Waterfowl Sanctuary, 17 Barker Road, Lebanon Connecticut 06249

WILD WATERFOWL RESCUE

Sorry, but we are NOT licensed and cannot legally handle any wild waterfowl. This includes Mallard Ducks, Canada Geese and Swans (among others).

If you need assistance with a wild duck, goose or swan, please contact your local veterinarians for the names of certified wildlife rehabbers in your area.

You can can also click here: Wild Rescue Links or here: CT Wildlife Rehabbers for help.

Click here for a Wildlife Rehabilitator State-By-State Listing. THEN... Click on "Emergency." Then on "Find Rehabilitator." Complete the form for a listing of certified rehabbers near you.  Please remember to donate to them for helping!

DOMESTIC WATERFOWL RESCUE

If you are looking to see if Majestic can take in confirmed female ducks or geese after you rescue them, please follow this link: Rescue Information & Form

Please note:  Any waterfowl already in your care, no matter the circumstance, is considered an Owner Surrender.

If you are trying to assist abandoned domestic ducks or geese, but need information on how to get permission or safely catch them, you can click on:  Rescue FAQs

  Healthy Female Adult Ducks ONLY

Please understand, we can no longer accept any male ducks, male geese, or any Muscovy ducks (either gender) into our sanctuary. We also cannot welcome in any ducklings or goslings without confirming they are females first. This applies to everyone and includes all circumstances. Going forward, we only accept HEALTHY, FEMALE domestic ducks (and occasionally, 1-2 female geese) as owner surrenders and we can't take everyone, so there is no guarantee we can help you at this time.

As part of our retirement plan, we will be closing down our sanctuary in the year 2030. In order to ensure that our sanctuary guests are all adopted or have ended their long lives here before this estimated closure, we need to be careful about who we accept into our sanctuary to be certain they will receive a lifetime of care.

Because male ducks don't tend to be adopted and often live for 10-17 years at our sanctuary, we will no longer be able to accept boys into our care or else they risk having no place to retire in their old age.

Because Muscovy ducks (both male and females) do not tend to be adopted and often live 10-15 years in our care, we will no longer be able to accept them into our sanctuary.

Because Geese live 20+ years and tend to reside at our sanctuary for an average of 7 years before finding their new homes, we are currently limiting ourselves to 1-2 female geese at any one time.

SURRENDERING A PET (Including ANY duck or goose in your custody)

  Healthy Female Adult Ducks ONLY

Please understand, as part of our retirement plan, we can no longer accept any male ducks (drakes), male geese (ganders), or any Muscovy ducks (either gender) into our sanctuary. We also cannot welcome in any ducklings/goslings without confirming they are females first. This applies to everyone and includes all circumstances. Going forward, we only accept HEALTHY, FEMALE domestic ducks (and occasionally, 1-2 female geese) as owner surrenders and we can't take everyone, so there is no guarantee we can help you at this time.

If you are contacting us to surrender your HEALTHY, ADULT, FEMALE DUCK OR GOOSE please click Owner Surrender to review vital information and to complete our online Owner Surrender form. This form is for any duck in your custody, for any reason, even those who have been rescued.

MEDICAL EMERGENCIES:

Please understand, we are not veterinarians. If you contact us regarding a medical situation regarding your pet duck or goose, we are going to advise you to contact a vet for assistance. Visit our Vet Finder if you need help finding a vet who handles waterfowl in your area.

Some helpful medical articles can be found Here, or you can click to visit our Diagnostic Chart, but neither are a substitute for quality vet care.

SCHOOL HATCHING PROGRAMS & DUCKLINGS

We get quite a few requests to take in ducklings from school hatching projects. Please understand our unwavering position regarding this matter:

It is against our mission statement to perpetuate the cycle of waterfowl abandonment. This means we cannot give teachers a means of disposing of their unwanted classroom-hatched ducklings without repercussion. To do so would risk future repeat offenses leading to more homeless ducklings. For this reason, we won’t even consider taking in classroom-hatched ducklings unless:

1) There are only 1-2 ducklings involved and they are (we simply cannot accommodate any more than two ducklings).

2) We have enough room in our sanctuary for the ducklings and they are both vet-confirmed females (unless they are old enough where we can confirm their gender, which is possible by voice when they are around 6-7 weeks old).

3) The person contacting us for help (YOU!) is willing to confront the teacher and school system in a professional manner to help put a stop to their Irresponsible Hatching Program and Sample Letter.

4) The person contacting us for help (YOU again!) needs to provide us with the name, phone number and mailing address of the school where the ducklings were hatched, along with the full names of the teacher, science chair person, principal and school superintendant. In more severe cases (involving animal neglect or abuse) we may also require the name & address of the Animal Control Officer functioning in the municipality of the school.

We will use this information to follow your official protest to the teacher & school with a Letter of our own to punctuate your efforts.

The bottom line in reference to school hatching programs is YOU need to be willing to step up and put a stop to the problem, so we can step in and help out too.

PEN-BUILDING MATERIALS AND SUPPLIES

Want to know what products work for us? Take a peek at our Wish List and Pen Building pages to see the common items, supplies and building materials we use around our sanctuary.

START YOUR OWN SANCTUARY

We are occasionally contacted by people who are interested in opening their own waterfowl sanctuary. For general information/advice of this nature, please click on  Sanctuary Start-Up FAQs.

EDUCATIONAL / SCHOOL RESEARCH PROJECTS

We receive quite a few requests asking us to participate in educational / school research projects regarding our sanctuary as a business operation. Before contacting us for assistance with a project interview, please click on  School Research Projects.

ADOPTION INQUIRIES:

Our Adoption Profiles are ALWAYS up to date! If you see birds listed as adoptable, then they are here and waiting for their new home.

If you are interested in adopting our waterfowl, or have a question about adopting, please review our Adoption FAQ to learn more about our requirements.

Interested adopters will need to complete our online Adoption Application.

JOINING OUR MAJESTIC ELIST

You too can receive our monthly newsletters. Visit our Elist Page for more information and then follow the simple instructions!

PHONE CALLS TO MAJESTIC

Sorry, no phone calls please...

We don't list our telephone number on this website because our sanctuary doesn't have a phone line, or the staffing available to handle calls even if we did have one. 

Unfortunately, phone calls to the Link family's private residence proved itself very disruptive in the past and had to be taken down, so they could enjoy a bit of quiet time with their family.

We're sure you'll soon agree that getting in touch with us via email, using our website's Contact Form, is the most practical and time-efficient means of receiving a helpful, same-day response. This direct approach enables us to give you thorough and detailed replies that often include helpful hyperlinks, articles, diagrams, photographs and/or other useful information, which we simply can't give you over the phone.

We're sorry for any inconvenience this may cause, but Kim is our only fulltime volunteer and we keep her EXTREMELY BUSY. She sets aside specific times to manage emails, website updates, Quickbooks entries and various other vital computer tasks, which she tends to do all at once (you should see all the windows she has open on her computer!). As you can imagine, all this multitasking requires a great deal of concentration and is more easily accomplished without the interruption of phone calls.

If you plan to use our Contact Form to request a phone call, please keep in mind, because of time constraints, Kim is usually only humanly able to return calls to:

We ONLY return calls to:

1. Animal Control Officers, Police Officers, Firefighters & Veterinarians.

2. Humane Society & SPCA personnel & other confirmed rescue shelters.

3. Families who have Adopted ducks or geese from us and need related advice.

4. Waterfowl rescuers with an established & standing relationship with us.

Thank you for your understanding!

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