Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital

Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital is the North Coast’s first all-species wildlife hospital, and Australia’s largest mobile wildlife hospital

🐦 Have you lost your beloved feathered friend?We have a possibly escaped pet lorikeet at our hospital!If you think it co...
05/12/2025

🐦 Have you lost your beloved feathered friend?

We have a possibly escaped pet lorikeet at our hospital!

If you think it could be yours, please send an email through to [email protected] detailing:
🐦Any identifying marks
🐦Any trained behaviours
🐦Microchip details
🐦Any photos that can help confirm identification

🎉Happy International Volunteer Day! 😍Behind every patient transported 🚙, treated 🔬, rehabilitated 💪 and released 🌳at Byr...
04/12/2025

🎉Happy International Volunteer Day! 😍

Behind every patient transported 🚙, treated 🔬, rehabilitated 💪 and released 🌳at Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital- there’s an amazing team of people who volunteer their own time and energy to keep things running smoothly!

Whether it’s cleaning hospital enclosures 🧹, preparing food for our patients 🫐, cutting browse 🌿, transporting patients 🚘, helping wildlife carers and our community with new admissions 👋🏽, or helping at events 🎫- you always show up with enthusiasm and joy!

We are truly grateful 🙏 to each and every one of our incredible volunteers for your compassion, dedication, hard work and support- we could not do this work without you!💖

To our incredible wildlife rescuers and carers- you are amazing! 🤩 Thank you for giving so much of you time, love and energy to each and every animal you rescue, raise, rehabilitate and release 🦘- we are so lucky to work alongside such wonderful people to help our precious wildlife!🫶🏼

To volunteers around the world- thank you! 🌏

✨ To our valued wildlife carers and Northern Rivers community,Please be advised that Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital will be...
02/12/2025

✨ To our valued wildlife carers and Northern Rivers community,

Please be advised that Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital will be CLOSED for new patient admissions and rechecks on Wednesday December 10th, to allow our incredible team a day for staff development and end-of-year festivities 🎉.

📱If you find injured, unwell or orphaned wildlife, please call one of our amazing local wildlife rescue organisations for assistance (you can find your local wildlife rescue organisation's contact information by downloading the IFAW Wildlife Rescue app!).

We will resume normal operations on Thursday December 11th at 9am. Thank you for your support and understanding.❤️

02/12/2025

Meet Pete! 👋

Pete is one of our dedicated volunteer wildlife transporters 🧺, a job he not only offers his time and energy to, but also his personal vehicle and fuel⛽.

Every day, our staff and volunteers assist sick, injured and orphaned native animals, who regularly need to be transported between our veterinary hospital and rehabilitation facilities.

Where every second matters, we need the right tools to save lives.

A purpose-built ambulance 🚑 would mean:
🚨 Faster response
🚐 Safe transport
🩺 On-site treatment
💚 Better survival outcomes
🐨 More volunteer wildlife transporters

This Christmas season, please consider donating to our “Wheels for Wildlife”, and help us purchase a Rapid Response Wildlife Ambulance for our team, and 🦉.

📲 chuffed.org/project/wheelsforwildlife

Sibling love 🥰 👥These adorable little Crested Pigeon chicks were recently seen by our veterinary team, after their nest ...
01/12/2025

Sibling love 🥰 👥

These adorable little Crested Pigeon chicks were recently seen by our veterinary team, after their nest was blown out of a tree 💨.

Fortunately, neither sustained any serious injuries! After a brief stay in hospital 🏥 they were sent into care with Tania, one of the amazing carers with , and as you can see in the last video- they’re thriving! 😍 Amazing work Tania! 👏

📲 If you find injured, unwell or orphaned wildlife, please call one of our wonderful wildlife rescue organisations, or bring it in to our hospital headquarters in Lennox Head ♥️

This beautiful Eastern Barn Owl came into our care with eye trauma, and needed urgent treatment at our Byron Bay Wildlif...
27/11/2025

This beautiful Eastern Barn Owl came into our care with eye trauma, and needed urgent treatment at our Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital. 🦉💛

It was then transported to our Byron Bay Raptor Recovery Centre — where our state-of-the-art aviary helps raptors rebuild flight fitness and strength before release.🦅

But transporting patients between our facilities currently relies on staff and volunteers using their own cars 🚗. It’s not ideal for the animals, and it creates a barrier for volunteers who want to help but can’t commit their personal vehicles.

✨We’ve now raised $27,047 — over 50% of our $50,000 goal for our Wheels for Wildlife campaign!🙏Thank you to everyone who has donated to our campaign so far!

Please donate to help us give the gift of life to wildlife who can’t help themselves- https://ap1.hubs.ly/y0qnDT0

Leave some 💚 for our brave little colony!Last week, a massive collaborative effort was undertaken to treat, reunite and ...
25/11/2025

Leave some 💚 for our brave little colony!

Last week, a massive collaborative effort was undertaken to treat, reunite and place into care a colony of 34 Eastern Broad-nosed Bats, after the branch they were nesting in was cut down 😔.

The colony consisted of numerous adults and pups, all of whom were given a thorough health-check with our veterinary team. Sadly, two pups passed away 💔, but the rest of the colony were incredibly and surprisingly unharmed!

Thanks to the incredible efforts of our local rescuers, a number of the bats were able to be reunited with their colony, and the rest were sent into care with an incredible team of vaccinated, trained and registered wildlife carers!♥️

⚠️ - please remember, if you find a bat (flying fox or microbat) that appears injured, unwell or orphaned, DO NOT TOUCH IT.
Immediately call you local wildlife rescue organisation who will send a vaccinated, trained and registered wildlife rescuer out to safely collect and transport the bat for medical attention.
If you or a pet have been bitten or scratched by a bat, seek immediate medical attention.

Do Bush Stone-curlews win the award for most unimpressed look?😅 This adorable juvenile Bush Stone-curlew was recently tr...
24/11/2025

Do Bush Stone-curlews win the award for most unimpressed look?😅

This adorable juvenile Bush Stone-curlew was recently treated by our amazing veterinary team after it was found with a severe limp ❤️‍🩹.

A full work-up revealed it had an infected puncture wound to its foot, which required stitching up and a course of antibiotics.💊

After some TLC in care with the wonderful Deb from , our sassy young patient was successfully released back into the wild and reunited with its family! Great work Deb!

We are truly grateful to have such dedicated, compassionate wildlife carers in the Northern Rivers- we could not do this work without you!♥️
🐦 If you would like to help our precious wildlife, consider becoming a registered, trained wildlife rescuer and carer. Contact your local wildlife rescue organisation for more information!

The devastating reality of fishing equipment...A beautiful Brahminy Kite was recently brought into our hospital after be...
19/11/2025

The devastating reality of fishing equipment...

A beautiful Brahminy Kite was recently brought into our hospital after being found on a local beach. It had a treble hook impaled through its foot, which was attached to a lure with yet another treble hook, as well as an enormous mass of seaweed entangled.😔

The kite was severely compromised, weak, and had obviously been pulled underwater by the weight of the debris. As well as the impaled hook, the Brahminy Kite showed signs of respiration failure. Despite our veterinary team's best efforts, the decision was made on the basis of welfare to humanely euthanise the kite.💔

We would like to extend our deepest thanks to the many members of the public and amazing wildlife rescuers who undertook the enormous task of carefully and safely rescuing and transporting the Brahminy Kite to us. Your kindness, compassion and efforts ensured that our patient was safe and able to receive help as quickly as possible ❤️.

⚠️ Fishing hooks, lines, sinkers and lures cause devastating injuries not only to the intended wildlife they capture, but also to non-target species such as waterbirds, birds of prey, and other animals that access waterways.

Please 🙏 be mindful when fishing- consider barbless hooks which cause far less trauma and are easier to remove, never leave equipment unmonitored or discarded, and don't cut the line- always reel in completely and take it with you.
📲 If you accidentally entangle or hook an animal, please call Australian Seabird and Turtle Rescue or your local wildlife rescue organisation for advice and assistance.

Thank you 🙏 to everyone who has donated to our “Wheels for Wildlife” campaign so far — your kindness is already helping ...
17/11/2025

Thank you 🙏 to everyone who has donated to our “Wheels for Wildlife” campaign so far — your kindness is already helping us move closer to putting our Rapid Response Ambulance on the road! 💚

Every donation — big or small — helps bring this life-saving vehicle closer to the animals who need it most.🐨

If you’re looking for a meaningful gift that saves lives this Christmas🎄, please consider supporting “Wheels for Wildlife”.

Donate now — https://ap1.hubs.ly/y0p7tV0

Address

7/48 Ballina Street
Knockrow, NSW
2478

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 4pm
Tuesday 9am - 4pm
Wednesday 9am - 4pm
Thursday 9am - 4pm
Friday 9am - 4pm
Saturday 10am - 2pm
Sunday 10am - 2pm

Telephone

+611300945354

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Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital

Our veterinarians have banded together to build and operate Australia’s Largest Mobile Wildlife Hospital. A Mobile Hospital dedicated to the treatment and rehabilitation of injured native Australian wildlife.

“Australia's bushfire crisis killed one billion native animals and highlighted the massive gap in facilities to rescue, treat and rehabilitate injured wildlife throughout the country,” said our CEO and Founder Dr Steve van Mil.

The fully equipped mobile hospital will operate from a custom-built semi-trailer based in the Northern Rivers NSW, and will be able travel throughout Australia to go where injured wildlife are in times of crisis. It is planned to be operational by early September 2020.

“Treating traumatised and injured native animals is a specialist field. Without specialists vets, nurses and the right equipment, rehabilitation and recovery is much less likely, putting the individual animal and full species at risk.”