Wildlife Rescue Darwin is a non-profit organisation which provides emergency treatment and care for sick and injured native Australian wildlife in the Darwin region of the Northern Territory.
Information
- Location:
- Palmerston, Australia, 0830
- Phone:
- 0409 090 840
- Mon:
- 7:00 am - 7:00 pm
- Tues:
- 7:00 am - 7:30 am
- Wed:
- 7:00 am - 7:00 pm
- Thurs - Fri:
- 7:00 am - 7:45 am
- Sat:
- 8:00 am - 2:00 pm
- Sun:
- 10:00 am - 12:45 am
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Baby BirdsUpdated about 2 months ago
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Notes
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- Sugar Glider 10:50pm Oct 21
- Spotted Tree Monitor 3:22am Oct 19
- Baby Boobook owl 2:14am Oct 19
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.
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...
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...
Wildlife Rescue Darwin These are the photos for the blog comments - you can also see them at www.thearkvet.com if you look on the blog there.
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)...
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...
Wildlife Rescue Darwin Magpie Geese on one of our staffs backyard fence in Palmerston. Escaping the hunters.
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...
Wildlife Rescue Darwin Nest that has fallen out of the tree. It was returned to the tree and its parents came back to look after the baby. The second egg hatched the next day. At the moment both parents and babies are doing well.
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...
