Sugar Glider

This is a juvenile sugar glider who was found on a tree being attacked by birds. She had several small wounds including one to her eye. The wounds and the eye are healing well and she is being cared for by one of our nurses.

Spotted Tree Monitor

This spotted tree monitor (a small species of goanna) was caught by a cat and has a deep puncture mark on its pelvic area. Cat bites, like most animal bites are very prone to develop serious infection. Often if they survive the physical bite they die later from infection. This little fellas wounds were flushed and cleaned and given antibiotics to give him a much better chance.

Baby Boobook owl

This is a juvenile southern boobook owl that came in with a broken wing. He should still be in the nest at this age.We are not sure what he was doing out or how he came to break his wing. His wing was quite smashed but we have managed to put it back together again. Time will tell if and how well he can fly on it.

Ibis

This is a juvenile straw necked Ibis who was hit by a car and broke both her wing and her leg. Both have required orthopaedic surgery to fix. (a metal pin has been inserted into both). She is recovering really well but will have to be in care for at least 12 weeks for the bones to heal before she can be released.

Magpie Geese

The Duck/Goose hunting season opened up here a week or so ago. The geese are not stupid and promptly leave the wetlands and rock up in and around town where its safer. For a small number of unfortunate geese this is swapping one danger for another. So we have seen a number of geese with "urban" injuries. (dog attacks, hit by cars, kids etc). This is a photo from one of our staffs backyard fence.

Baby Birds

Its an often repeated message to put baby birds back. All to often with baby birds they are unneccessary rescues. They are either a fledgling learning how to fly or they are a baby bird who has fallen from their nest. Either way their best chance of survival is back with their own real parents. If you find a nestling, look for its nest and try to place it back if possible. If the whole nest has fallen from the tree, like the one in the photo try to replace the nest into a nearby tree or shrub, at about head height. If the nest has fallen apart, try making a new one using a plastic container, like an ice cream container (with holes in the bottom to let rainwater drain out). The parents will almost always come back to look after them and it is their best chance of survival. The nest in the photo was returned to its tree (secured with a cable tie through the bottom) and its parents came back to feed it. The second egg hatched the next day. Hopefully they should do well now.

Red Ned's Parole.

RED Ned is a big male red kangeroo who has spent most of his life in Prison. However he has just been let out on parole.

Red Ned's mother was killed in a collision with a car over a year ago and he was picked up by a caring truck driver just north of Tennant Creek. He was found standing next to his dead mother. The truck driver drove with him north delivering him to us when he was very little. Unfortunately the accident had left significant injuries to Red Ned and he needed several operations. He has been cared for and rehabilitated at Berrimah Prison. Prisoners at the jail cared and fed him and he has become a firm favorite. He has recovered really well from all his operations and has used his jail time well to grow into a big healthy young man. Unfortunately he could not be released earlier due to all his injuries and Red kangeroos are not actually found anywhere near darwin. So by the time he was ready to be returned it was a monumental effort to get him back into the wild. He was flown back to Alice Springs where he will be soft released into the wild. Flying is expensive but thanks to several generous donors and berrimah prison who built a special travel cage.