[1][2] It had previously been a part of Scott's Arctic Animal Hospital, but split into a separate entity due to high demand.

The proposed plans did not go ahead due to funding and scope issues, but in February 2016 Bird TLC was given permission by the municipality of Anchorage to build a flight center on the land.

[8] During the 2022 avian flue outbreak in Alaska, the center became one of the few in the state to continue accepting birds.

[11] In 1991, Bird TLC used money from Exxon to build a flight center at Fort Richardson.

It lacked running water and the organization did not own the land it was built on, so in the 2000's Bird TLC announced it would build a new flight center at Potter Marsh.

The warehouse functioned as a clinic and a place for birds to live before transfer to the JBER flight center.

[10][15] Birds that lived full time at the center have included Girdie, a North American crow who was found in Girdwood with an injured wing,[15][16] Shavila, a black-billed magpie,[11] and One Wing, a bald eagled injured during the Exxon Valdez oil spill.