Tens of thousands of wild birds get injured, or emaciated, or just lost every year. Some are lucky enough to be found by someone and given assistance.

 

Better still they are taken to vets or centres or groups who have the expertise to quickly assess the birds and get them on the road to recovery if possible.

 

The whole point of rehabilitation is to accept in injured wildlife and get it well enough to return to the wild. Keeping a large number of injured wild birds is not rehabilitation in its pure form.

 

Occasionally people like to try and help injured wildlife themselves, but it is usually not advisable, either for the person, or the injured animal or bird. As you learn more about it, you might find you would much rather hand the responsibility to someone with the right expertise!

 

We use up a lot of medical supplies with injured birds:

 

Self adhesive bandages

Cotton buds

Cotton wool

Gauze and so on

-as well as never being able to find a sharp pair of scissors, or the forceps when we need them.

 

Of course there are also the much more expensive items, like a digital X-ray machine, laparoscopes and so on, just in case you have one handy!

All donations help be it financial or ‘stuff’ so don’t be frightened to ask us if we have a use for something you might think useful, it could be just what we are looking for at the time and we will be very honest with you I promise. We plan to build a hospital to house and treat the injured wild birds as soon as we are able, so if you have any ideas about that – again contact us.