By Linda Jordan | Community Fundraising and Events Executive
This year marked an important milestone for WIRES - we launched a specialist recovery facility for injured raptors!
Every year we receive around 1,700 calls for injured raptors, and yet birds of prey are extremely difficult to rehabilitate. They often need specialised care, followed by vast, circular flight aviaries so they can regain muscle and wing strength before they can be successfully returned to the wild.
This specialist facility is named it Mullyang, which means Wedge-tailed Eagle in the local Gundungurra language.
The facility is undergoing an extensive range of essential maintenance and upgrades, making sure it is fully equipped for the rehabilitation of injured raptors, and other local native species needing specialist care.
We look foward to updating you on the magnificant species that will learn to spread their wings and soar once more - thanks to your support!
From country to city – you're helping give rescued wildlife their second chance.
Still on the topic of lifesaving wildlife facilities, we also recently co-launched the WIRES Native Animal Recovery Centre in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs.
A facility has actually existed near the site for over two decades, but it recently received a significant upgrade, in collaboration with the New South Wales government, WIRES and Randwick City Council. It’s a great example of the protection and support we can provide local wildlife when we work together!
The purpose-built facility supports the work of WIRES volunteers and now includes nine possum enclosures, three specialist bird enclosures and a pre-release flight aviary. Among the first wildlife patients to attend the facility were a ring tailed possum, a brush-tailed possum, some rainbow lorikeets and two juvenile ibis – the very bird that helped sparked the birth of WIRES 40 years ago!
Thank you for your support. You are helping to provide rescued native animals with a second chance of life in the wild, and on their behalf we are very grateful.
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