>-How many foster homes do we currently have fostering the ~350 birds?

I tweaked a query of mine to show all foster homes instead of all distinct cockatiel foster homes, and I got 137. This includes surrenderers fostering their own birds and does not include veterinary hospitals. See attached in case you ever wanted to see such a list.

>recidivism rate

Ballpark, 20 cockatiels in calendar 2010 to date, if that helps.

--VH