Benalla Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation

16/02/2025

💜Appreciation Post💜

A huge thank you to everyone that has helped us out over the last few months.
Whether it be:
Helping with the plant stand
Donating/buying from the plant stand
Donating towels/blankets
Donating bird seed
Donating cans for the deposit schemes
Donating mealworms
Donating newspapers
Anything else that I may have forgotten

All your help is greatly appreciated!

Photo included of Choc and Chip the baby kookaburras that finally look like kookaburras 💜

08/02/2025

Some feathers coming through now 💜

07/02/2025

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Please be careful driving out samaria rd. There is a family of ducks/ducklings out front of estia

29/01/2025

They’re getting lots of pins showing now and eyes look like they will be opening soon 💜

22/01/2025

Going to be amazing watching these 2 grow over the next few months 💜

10/01/2025

A message on behalf of Shirley’s family:
Shirley is currently out of action and her family have noticed donations being dropped off at her place are starting to get a bit out of control. Thank you for the generosity but for the time being please refrain from doing any more donation drop offs to her house. Thank you 💜

03/01/2025

Please take the time to read:

Lately there has been an increase in the number of well meaning people attempting to raise/rehabilitate orphaned or injured wildlife themselves and delaying them coming into care. When this happens, injuries can be missed or heal incorrectly, wrong foods can be given or given improperly, they can lose their natural behaviours and become domesticated, and sadly the majority of this results in an inability to release and euthanasia. Wildlife carers undergo strict licensing conditions and training and have the experience to provide the care required and in a way that optimises the chance of release and survival in the wild again. So next time you pick up injured or orphaned wildlife and think it is cute and want to try raising/caring for it yourself, please put the wildlife first and take it to a carer or vet clinic, as delaying proper care can be a death sentence for it.

For example, we have had a lot of birds being picked up or handed in that have been held onto by members of the public for a couple of weeks, sometimes longer, that have lost their wild behaviours, they don’t have the ability to recognise their natural foods in the wild, are no longer fearful of people or pets, and have become fully dependent on people for affection and food. These animals are unlikely to ever survive in the wild again. It makes rehabilitation that much harder and heartbreaking when we are unable to reverse what has been done.

24/12/2024

24/12/2024

A huge thank you to Barb for bringing these 3 rosellas to us a couple weeks ago from Beechworth. The poor things had gotten caught up in some bad weather and had been covered in some dirty/grimey water. Unfortunately it had dried hard on their feathers so that they couldn’t fly anymore. After carefully bathing them they needed to rest and regain strength. One of them required more intensive care due to shock and I honestly didn’t think she was going to make it but she pulled through 💜 We took them back to beechworth on the weekend and it was amazing to watch them fly off again.

21/12/2024

And with todays release we close the chapter on the solar farm. Today we released the 5 grass parrots and rosella back out at goorambat (on a safe property to gain their confidence and independence a bit more before they go off on their own and join other flocks).
These were the last of the solar farm babies we had in care (we still have other birds in care but at least they came in from natural circumstances or accidents, not human negligence/interference).
A huge thank you to everyone who gave their support during these last few months, whether it be from donations of money, towels, food or plants for the plants sale, or just offering kind words of support or encouragement, it has been greatly appreciated 💜

12/12/2024

Please please don’t leave behind your fishing line (I know sometimes it is unavoidable). This is what can happen. This poor wood duck got both legs tangled in line. Luckily even with how tight it was wrapped, there were no cuts yet (given more time tangled it would be very different). Thank you so much to the member of public that called it in, the member of public who helped us catch the wood duck, and the girls at benalla hospital who donated the scissors we used to cut the wood duck free. Someone was very lucky to escape unharmed, and very happy to be able to return to the water.

04/12/2024

Galah release day 💜

01/12/2024

Please be aware: there is a young pacific black duck down at the lake that appears to be an escapee from someone that has domesticated it. It has a tendency to follow people with their dogs. If you are walking the lake with your dogs please be mindful that it might approach them.

28/11/2024

This little bird has given me so many happy tears 💜

27/11/2024

Still plenty of plants out front in Margaret st. Gold coin donation, proceeds going to towards caring for the wildlife in our care. Plenty of succulents, aquatic irises and elephant ears and more. Thank you to those that have already collected plants and to those that have donated more plants 💜

20/11/2024

There has been plenty of updates/photos of the parrots so thought you all might like an update on the galahs from the solar farm site… clearly they are not happy about being weaned off their “baby food” (rearing mix) and having to rely more on solids (they still get 1 feed a day of the rearing mix for a little longer). I feel sorry for all the galah parents out there having to listen to this 24/7