Emergency Rescue Advice – Wildlife
Detailed advice and information is available about wildlife in the Hunter.
Click on the headings below for lots of information and emergency advice.
- Rescue information
- Transportation
- Handling
- Short term care for adult birds – housing
- Warmth
- Wild capturing & handling
- Special rescue situations
- Magpies
- Parrots
- Small birds
- Birds in swimming pools
Birds – Babies – What to do if you’ve find a baby bird
- How can I find out if the fledgling is an orphan?
- Download a “Found a Baby Bird?” pamphlet
- You can reunite a baby bird with its parents
- 4 steps to make a new home
- Where are echidna found
- Most common reasons for rescue
- Important points to remember when rescuing
- Natural food
- Mating trains in breeding season
- What do they look like?
- Information for rescuers
- Most common reasons for rescue
- What do they eat?
- Disease – Who is at risk?
- Threats from entanglement in wire – You Can Help!
- What is a wombat
- Information for rescuers
- Joey wombats
- Most common reason for rescue
- Threats to wombats
- Natural food
- Wombats are not pets!
Birds of Prey – Raptors – Eagles, Osprey, Kites and more
- What is a Raptor?
- Osprey
- Pacific Baza or Crested Hawk
- Black Shouldered Hawk
Find out about:
- Powerful Owls & Barn Owls
- Where they live
- Breeding
- Where does it live?
- What does it eat?
- Be Aware – nesting season is here!
- Informing others
- Keep calm
- Dismount
- Tips to protect yourself
- Brushtail possums
- Ringtail possums
- Information for rescuers
- Possums in roof cavity
- Possum in a chimney
- Most common reason for rescues
- What do they eat?
- Threats from entanglement in netting – You Can Help!
- What can you do to stop cats killing our wildlife?
- Wildlife most at risk from cats
Read the NSW Department of Planning, Industry & Environment Code of Practice for injured and sick sea turtles and sea snakes here.