Marie is the founder of Feathered Friends Rescue and has been in charge of running its daily affairs since it was created in 2008.  She created this rescue with her partner Tim (see Tim's Bio) to fulfill Michigan’s need of a fully functioning facility parrot rescue and sanctuary, and has been working towards that end ever since.

Marie has a B.S in Communications and Technical Writing which she intends to utililize in the non-profit sector. She has worked with animals to one degree or another since she began teaching horse-back riding for a local camp ground when she was 15.

She is the proud "parront" of Tui-a brilliant African Grey, Libby - a rambunctious, somewhat insane plucking madman of a Hahns Macaw, Widgee- a sweet and troublesome Nanday Conure, and Sissy- her ever radiant Sun Conure.

She is  also the proud mother of two human children; Skyla who is twelve and Elliot a three year old son. 

Fran Anderson

Fran became actively involved in the parrot community in 1993, after taking in a Mullocan Cockatoo in need of rescue. Fran has been involved in animals for most of her life.  As a child she would sit in hedge rows with binoculars and watch birds. She kept pigeons, rabbits, chickens, ducks, budgie, finches and canaries before the age of ten. By the age of 15 she had raised baby wild birds of several species and had raised and kept mice, guinea pigs, gerbils, hamsters, a cat and a rat along with showing dogs and horses.

Fran has worked in both rescue and breeding and has recently decided to focus her attention on birds in need of rescue and re-homing.  In the past 17 years she has had experience with many species. This includes over 18 species of conure that she kept and maintained, some of which she bred including the patagonian, slender bill, austral, mitred, green and others. She has owned several species of large & mini macaws. Fran also has experience with Eclectus, both species of Greys, Moluccan, Umbrella, Ducorp, Slender Bill, Bare Eyed and Goffin cockatoos, several species of amazon, a few of the Australian grasskeets and Asian species.  She has also owned cockatiels, lovebirds, parrotlets, black headed caiques and other species.

She also has an interest in and has owned mousebirds, bearded barbets and some of the Aracari species.

She currently own's and is involved in Lories primarily the Black Lory and her personal pets include the following.  Black, Duvyenbode, Blue Streak and Chattering.  She is also currently involved with the Lineolated Parakeet and it’s mutations.

Fran is a member of the following: The American Federation of Aviculture and is the current state of Michigan representative for the AFA,  Avicultural Society of America, International Conure Association, National Finch & Softbill Association, Lineolated Parakeet Society of which she is president, American Lory Society, The Lory League, and the World Parrot Trust. As a member of these organizations and continuing interest in all aspects of aviculture Fran tries to attend as many seminars and workshops as possible on a wide array of bird topics from enrichment to behavior to nurition and advancements in veterinarian care.

 Timothy Crowley

Tim came on board the rescue's efforts after being introduced to parrot's by his long-time signifigant other, Marie. After coming to know better understand parrots and their current and often sad plight in captivity he has decided to come on board with the rescue and use his expertise to help make this rescue a success!

Tim has a MBA from Wayne State University (with a concentration in marketing and finance.) He currently holds a position as Director in a leading global market research firm.

Tim is the favored parront of Libby- Tim and Marie's Hahns Macaw, Phoebe, his adoring foster parrot.

He also is the proud father of Elliot ( featured in Tim's bio photo), and step-father to a 12 year old daughter.