Turtle Caesarian

Today We performed a caesarian section on a Yellow faced turtle. One of the eggs had ruptured inside her causing a nasty peritonitis. Her only chance is surgery. We removed six remaining eggs, which we have some hope will hatch. We also needed to remove a whole lot of damaged tissue, including her uterus so she will not breed again because it was too badly damaged. In this photo I am intubating her so we can do the surgery.

Bent Blue tounge

This Bluey (northern Blue tounge lizard) isn't really wildlife. It was actually pick up by some one who kept it as a pet. Unfortunately they didn't know what they were doing and kept it inside in an old fish tank and fed it mince meat. It seemed to do well for a while but became bendy and stopped moving much. So they surrendered it to us. Unwhittingly they had given it metabolic bone disease. This happened because the glass in the tank filters out the ultraviolet light which is neccessary for calcium metabolism and there was no calcium in its diet anyway. So the bones became rubbery and fragile. On xray it had lots of breaks and its bones were paper thin. With proper care and lots of calcium and uv light it should recover but it will probably always have bent back.

Baby Torri

This baby Torres Straight pigeon (also called Pied imperial pigeon or Torresian imperial pigeon - or affectionately a "Torri") fell out of its nest after a storm. Unfortunately like most pigeons, torris make pretty frail nests. What we reccomend when this happens is to put him back in the nest if possible or if the nest is destroyed to make a new nest for the parents out of an old ice cream container with holes in the bottom (to let the rain water out) tied to the tree with cable ties where the old nest was. the parents almost always come back and look after their baby. Their best chance is always in the wild with their own parents. Unfortunately for this one it's finders weren't willing to give it back to its parents so it will now need to be handraised. It is definately an ugly ducking at this age but with time it will grow into a spectacular adult.

Kookaburra

This unfortunate blue winged Kookaburra got caught on a barbwired fence. He was soaked in his own blood. While he has lots of feather damage and some blood loss he should be ok and there doesn't seem to be any permanent damage.