Rescued wildlife

This page is about various wild Australian animals I had cared for as member of "Fauna Rescue" group.

Arky (short for "Arkaroola", the place where he was rescued) is the chick of rose-breasted cokatoo or galah. He was pulled out of his nesting hollow by corellas and injured. He has actually fell on our tent (we where camping under his home-tree). Now he is very noisy and inquisitive galah. He became our darling pet and total "human". He can say about a dozen of different words and frases, dances and helps me with weeding in the garden. He was the first rescue we had in Australia who sparkled out interest in wildlife rescue and rehabilitation.
Arky grew up into very perky cocky!
More pictures of Arky and Vicky (our long-billed corella)

"Possy" is Ring tailed possum, our second rescue. He came in care just the next day after we joined the "Fauna rescue" and had to live in the second bathroom untill we've got a suitable accomodation for him. Luckily, his injury wasn't serious and he was successfully rehabilitated.

Blue-tongued skinks are often come into care, mostly with very bad injuries inflicted by cats, dogs, or cars. This one was lucky, I picked him up in a busy carpark and just relocated into nearby bushland.

Porky was the cuuuuutest baby-possum I have ever seen. He was found on his dead mother just on someones doorstep and forwarded to me. From the day one he had an increadible appetite which deserved him his name. He grew up into big handsome possum and has been successfully rehabilitated.

Beeper is a baby rainbow lorikeet. Someone found it and brought to Adelaide Zoo, Zoo forwarded it to the Fauna Rescue. From very tender age he was quiet nice bird, full of decency and self-respect. It was very easy to hand-feed him, he would take the spoon delicately and eat carefully without spilling anything (not like Arky who used to cover himself and us with gooey hand-raising mixture during feedings). The only sounds he would make was delicate "Beep-beep". His plays reminded those of a kitten, somersaults, rolling over with a flower in his claws. We could watch him playing for hours. It was kind of sad for us to say "Good buy" when time came to let him go but it was a joy to see him joining the flock! Now he is one of them, which one? Your guess as good as mine...

It had only been a year since we joined the "Fauna rescue", but we had a steady string of animals coming into care, amongst them wattle bird, lorikeet, magpie, cormorant and others. It is often heartbreaking business as about 50% of animals rescued either die or have to be eutonased but the other 50% is given second chance to live! Please, visit the official "Fauna rescue" site, it has heaps of useful information and nice photographs of all sorts of rescued animals.

Fauna Rescue of SA

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Arky (short for "Arkaroola", the place where he was rescued) is the chick of rose-breasted cokatoo or galah. He was pulled out of his nesting hollow by corellas and injured. He has actually fell on our tent (we where camping under his home-tree). Now he is very noisy and inquisitive galah. He became our darling pet and total "human". He can say about a dozen of different words and frases, dances and helps me with weeding in the garden. He was the first rescue we had in Australia who sparkled out interest in wildlife rescue and rehabilitation.
	Arky grew up into very perky cocky! More pictures of Arky and Vicky (our long-billed corella)
	"Possy" is Ring tailed possum, our second rescue. He came in care just the next day after we joined the "Fauna rescue" and had to live in the second bathroom untill we've got a suitable accomodation for him. Luckily, his injury wasn't serious and he was successfully rehabilitated.
Blue-tongued skinks are often come into care, mostly with very bad injuries inflicted by cats, dogs, or cars. This one was lucky, I picked him up in a busy carpark and just relocated into nearby bushland.
	Porky was the cuuuuutest baby-possum I have ever seen. He was found on his dead mother just on someones doorstep and forwarded to me. From the day one he had an increadible appetite which deserved him his name. He grew up into big handsome possum and has been successfully rehabilitated.