Our Story & Mission

OUR STORY

In 1981, founders Mike and Ali Lubbock moved to the United States from England, bringing extensive waterfowl knowledge with them. They founded Sylvan Heights Waterfowl in the mountain town of Sylva, North Carolina.

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OUR MISSION

Sylvan Heights Bird Park seeks to advance conservation of waterfowl and wetlands, to act as a local educational resource for avian biology and wetlands ecology, and to serve as an international center for avicultural training and research.

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THE WATERFOWL MAN

The opening of Sylvan Heights Bird Park in 2006 emerged from the legacy of one man – Mike Lubbock, affectionately known to many as the Waterfowl Man.

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