Sunnyhills Bird Rescue

25/10/2024

Important post ; please read. ⬇️

We have had so much wonderful support from the community for our work here at Sunnyhills Bird Rescue. It has been a real privilege to provide care to so many thousands of birds over the
past 3-4 years.

Sadly, we’ve had to make the very hard decision to shut down our operations.

We simply do not have the time or resources to continue to operate, and the work has had a big toll on our family. It’s time for us to hand over the work to others. We are currently working to notify vets, other rescues and DOC of the changes. Please share with any local community pages and anyone you know to notify them we are no longer operating.

This means that we will not be taking any more birds in, and are working to release or transfer our remaining patients. Please see our pinned post for advice on where to take your injured or lost bird. Thank you so much for your support over the years; it has meant so much to us. The donations of money, food, goods, volunteers with their time. It’s all been so so appreciated. We will still be open to messages regarding advice, just send us a message through fb messenger.

If you send donations regularly, please ensure that you don’t send any more payments through.

Here’s a link to some great advice from our friends at WRENNZ. There’s info regarding most types of birds and what to do in each situation. Plus a great image below regarding baby birds.

https://www.wrennz.org.nz/advice

12/10/2024

It’s a busy spring here at Sunnyhills Bird Rescue. So many baby birds coming in!

This means that we currently are unable to take any more birds in, whether a baby or an injured bird.

If you have a native bird, please take it to Hamilton Zoo. If you have an injured bird that is not native, please take it to your local vet. If you have a non-injured baby bird, you can raise it yourself, and Bird Care NZ has information online for how to look after baby birds.

Thank you for your support and hopefully you can understand our decision.

08/10/2024

Our incubators are starting to become full with fledgling songbirds and the odd silvereye nestling! 🥹

Just a kind reminder that we are only a two man band run from our home, we both work full time so sometimes may struggle to get back to your call or message straight away. Here are some useful contacts if you wish to try someone else for bird rehab or rescue service.

Sam Rufus 021 917 322 - Matamata

Bill Smith 021 274 4256 - Gordonton

Judy Fentress 07 823 6942 - Ohaupo

Robyn Chappell (Domestic birds)
022 162 9161 - Cambridge

Kylie Martin (Natives only) 021 107 3759 - Raglan

Any local vet will take in a bird if injured and in need of medical attention, often this is best before bringing to us. We aren’t vets just bird loving volunteers so can’t always provide life saving treatments. 🦉🐦‍⬛🦆🐥

25/09/2024

This week we have had new arrivals every day! Ducklings galore and our first nestling of the season too. Round the clock feeding starts now! 🦆🐥

As spring and summer picks up so do our baby bird numbers, so we are making the decision to focus purely on the babies. If you have an injured adult bird in need of attention any vet is obliged to provide care and pass onto an available rescue. If you find an injured NATIVE bird the Hamilton Zoo or Raglan Native Rehabilitation are you best bet for help.

Unfortunately we can’t do it all and have spread ourselves too thin in previous seasons. As always we rely on public donations to keep going. Bringing $10 when you bring a bird to us makes a world of difference or you can donate to our bank account below 💛💛

Sunnyhills Bird Rescue Charitable Trust
06-0313-0855667-00

* Please note we are still able to take adult birds that have been brought in by your cat! Please get them to us as soon as you can! If any obvious broken legs or wings though we just ask they go to a vet first. 🐦‍⬛

20/09/2024

It’s that time of year again where we put a call out for dedicated and hard working individuals to volunteer with us and the rescue birds. This is seasonal position, starting October til February/March. We require volunteers to be available in the afternoons as this is our busiest time, starting 4:30pm until normally 7pm at the latest.

Reliability and punctuality is most important. Own transport is required too. It’s a role that’s rewarding but does require cleaning, food prep, dishes but also feeding baby birds! Would suit vet nursing students looking for animal facility placement hours! If this sounds like you and you are interested in more info please give us a message and we can discuss further. 💛🖤🪶🦜

14/09/2024

Spring egg sale ! $8 a dozen for fresh, free range eggs. All funds going towards the rescue birds. 🐔🐣🐔

We have over 6 dozen eggs currently and are getting more everyday , give us a message to arrange pick up in Glenview, Hamilton 🌟

12/09/2024

Forgive us for lack of posts as we have been preparing for a very busy spring/summer season. We received our first “baby” bird of the 2024/2025 season this week, a blackbird fledgling who had a run in with a dog, but is making a great recovery albeit lonely! We are at 300 birds total for 2024 so far but this number is likely to triple by the end of the year.

Reminder we take almost anything native and non native in the way of bird species! Donations when bringing in birds are much appreciated and help us to keep doing our ever so important work for the Waikato community. 🪶🐦‍⬛🦉🐣💛

27/08/2024

Our hens are busy and we are overloaded with fresh eggs again.
$10 a for a dozen, fresh free range eggs. Give us a message to pick up. 😊

30/07/2024

We are excited to announce that Sunnyhills Bird Rescue has joined the Vet Post Fur-raising Program!

You can now support us simply by purchasing your pet supplies and products online at Vet Post. Every time you shop at Vet Post using our unique link: https://www.vetpost.co.nz/?linkId=lp_299255&sourceId=kelsiemorgan&tenantId=vetpost
a percentage of the sale will be donated to our group. It's an easy way to get the best for your pets while supporting our cause. Thank you for your continued support!

PS, Please make sure you use the unique code provided. Feel free to share it with your friends and family too! We cannot wait to share the wins that this program will bring us.

21/07/2024

An entertaining video to cheer up your rainy weekend featuring some our resident birds, Genie the rainbow lorikeet, Rosie the myna and Birdie the sparrow. They are also so thankful as are we for the donations we have received over the last few days! Nothing goes unnoticed, and we appreciate every cent 💛🥰🦜

17/07/2024

This beautiful little Ruru is asking if you have a spare cent to donate today! We’re sadly coming to the last of our available funds to support and pay for the rescue birds. All and any donations are welcome and appreciated, if all our followers donated $5 we would be equipped for the next few months! Restocks of food and supplies are needed shortly so please if you have a spare $5 or $10 consider donating today.
💛🙏🏻🐦‍⬛💛
We are a government registered charity so if you need or require a tax receipt for your donation, feel free to send us a message with your email and we will get back to you with a receipt.

Sunnyhills Bird Rescue Charitable Trust
06-0313-0855667-00

07/07/2024

FOUND male cockatiel in Claudelands, Hamilton 06/07/24
Has some distinguishing body features, and can make some good tunes so if he’s yours you must be able to identify this. For now he’s safe with food and good company with us. Message to claim 🦜🦜

06/07/2024

We currently have surplus eggs so are happy to sell a few dozen.
$10 a dozen, fresh free range from rescue hens, all proceeds going back to the rescue. Message us to purchase ! 🐔🐣

30/06/2024

We have had a successful last couple of weeks, releasing 6 of our recent intakes.
An adult thrush and blackbird, both cat victims recovered and were released during the week. Today we released a goldfinch (cat victim), a magpie (gunshot victim) and two ducks who we raised from ducklings.

Support us today by donating to our trust account 🙏🏻❤️
Sunnyhills Bird Rescue Charitable Trust
06-0313-0855667-00

19/06/2024

FOUND BIRD
Found blue budgie in Glenview, Hamilton 19/06/24. Likely been missing a while as was very weak and hungry, quite underweight. If you have lost a blue budgie in this area in the last month or more give us a message with photos to prove ownership. For now it is safe and fed here with us. 👌🏻🦜

14/06/2024

Here at Sunnyhills we are so thankful for everyone who gives up their time to volunteer and help us with the birds. Maddie has been one of the biggest helps of all, she never hesitates to come and help us weekly and is so good with all the birds. Despite her health struggles she still finds time for us, which we are ever so grateful for. Below we have shared her Givealittle page, where she is fundraising to get an explanation for her health struggles. Every dollar counts ❤️

Fundraising page for potentially life saving scans and treatment.

12/06/2024

We want to give a huge thank you to everyone who has donated in the last couple of weeks! It really helped top us up for winter! ❄️🙏🏻❤️
This is our beautiful male tui Lilo, who is about 4 months old now. He was hand reared from a chick with us and is waiting for his relocation date to go to his new home at the Ōtorohanga Kiwi House ! He’s a bit too friendly to be released but will make an awesome ambassador bird at the kiwi house! ❤️🥰

31/05/2024

I hate to do this but times really are tough at present, after our weekly top up grocery shop this week our bank account is looking rather sad. Supplies, medicines and fresh foods have all gone up in price, and our bird intake is ever increasing too. As we tomorrow begin the slog of winter, now is the time to donate if you can. Anything and everything is so appreciated 🙏🏻🖤🪶🦆💛

Sunnyhills Bird Rescue Charitable Trust
06-0313-0855667-00

29/05/2024

We have lots of eggs at present so if anyone would like to buy a dozen or two give us a message, $10 a dozen, fresh free range eggs. All proceeds go back to the birds ☺️

29/05/2024

Go and give our friends Bird Rescue, Rehoming and Adoption, Waikato, NZ a like on this post, they help us out in so many ways by taking on all the lost domestic birds we are brought in and giving them sanctuary or finding forever homes. This month they are up for the funding from Avian Empire. 🎉❤️🪶

Bird Rescue and Rehoming Cambridge

16/05/2024

The last few weeks have been very busy with rehab patients of all sizes. We have cared for a morepork, kereru, magpie, baby pigeon, dove, kingfisher and yesterday we have 8 birds arrive in total. 😱😅

5 sweet little swallows were rescued off a roof at a corrections unit, after being victims of bird repellent 😡 they were stuck like glue on the roof, ruining their beautiful feathers. It’s a long process of cleaning their wings and tails in a hope they can see freedom again. So far all are doing well and we have our fingers crossed for a full recovery ❤️‍🩹 🪶

Yesterday also saw the start of duckling season for us in Waikato, a month earlier than last year…. 3 tiny ducklings were brought in weak and starving. We didn’t have much hope for them initially but after some nursing and food they are happy as can be now. Thanks to Raglan Native Rehabilitation for the donation of this wonderful incubator, it is keeping our ducklings toasty warm in this cold weather we are having. 🦆🐣❤️

As always, winter is the hardest for us with less donations coming through. We need donations all year round, $10 can help one bird through rehab. Donate today 💕⬇️

Sunnyhills Bird Rescue Charitable Trust
06-0313-0855667-00

01/05/2024

We are once again very privileged to take out the Avian Empire Charity of the Month. For small rescues, funds are hard to come by, we are a small team that do everything ourselves so this funding is well and truly appreciated. Thanks to all the support of our wonderful followers and Waikato community who liked and shared far and wide. 🪶🥰🖤🙌🏻

For the 3rd time! Congratulations Sunnyhills Bird Rescue for taking out the Avian Charity of the Month of April prize! $600 has been deposited into your account 💚 It's amazing to see the community support for your little rehab!

28/04/2024

Today we released this lucky little kingfisher after nearly 6 weeks of rehab. Sadly he was a victim of a pet cat. 😓 Thanks to Hamilton Zoo for diagnosing a fractured ulna and creating a specialized rehab plan to get this guy back on track. He was very happy to be back in the wild flying free today. Release video in comments 🪶🩵

24/04/2024

Hi everyone! Please if you could share and like our logo if you haven’t already. Go to the original post and like our black and yellow logo. We are only a close second and this money would really top us up for winter 🙏🏻🙏🏻

15/04/2024

We have been chosen once again by the wonderful Avian Empire to be up to win $500 towards our rehab work. Go and give our image a like on the original post, to vote for us. 🪶💕🙏🏻