Sydney Wildlife (Sydney Metropolitan Wildlife Services)

21/10/2026

Thank you to Ben and the wonderful crew of Hills Wildlife Sanctuary for helping lighten the heavy load with the flying foxes needing a safe place to rest and recover. We appreciate it.

19/10/2026

🦉 Don’t let the birds you love go hungry! 🦉

A record number of birds are in care with Sydney Wildlife volunteers right now. Kookaburras, owls, frogmouths, magpies, currawongs, butcherbirds and more are all recovering in our carers’ homes. Many of them need rodents and specialised food to regain their strength, grow, and go home.

Rodents are one of the most expensive parts of caring for wildlife. Each rodent costs between $2 and $10, and many birds eat several a day. On top of that, our birds need live insects and specialised supplements so they get the right nutrition to grow into healthy, releasable adults. Feeding a single bird can cost more than $35 a day. With so many birds in care and prices continuing to rise, our food bill is growing faster than ever.

Sydney Wildlife receives no formal funding. Every cent we spend on caring for wildlife is fundraised. That is why we urgently need to raise $5,000 to keep these birds fed until they can be released or reunited with their families.

Every dollar goes straight to their food bowl. 💛

Please, for the love of birds, donate today: https://www.sydneywildlife.org.au/donate/

Can’t donate right now? Sharing this post helps just as much.

Thank you for your generosity, from all of us and the birds. 🪶

16/10/2026

Important message about Halloween decorations and our wildlife!

11/10/2026

Sydney Wildlife Rescue volunteers are responding to a flying fox emergency 🦇

Over recent weeks, our rescuers have attended a significant number of call-outs for flying foxes in distress across Sydney. Every day our volunteers are collecting starving adults and orphaned or premature pups, and our specially vaccinated carers are working around the clock.

This is part of a wider starvation event affecting flying foxes along the NSW coast. With so much native habitat cleared and a dry winter limiting flowering, there is not enough nectar to sustain them. It has struck at the height of birthing season, when mothers need nutrition most, and many are losing their young.

What this looks like in your neighbourhood:

A flying fox seen during daylight, hanging low or alone, or on the ground is likely a hungry, exhausted animal searching for food and water. Please do not attempt to move it on.

Three simple ways to help

1. Make your yard safe. Take down loose fruit tree netting or switch to wildlife-safe netting (holes no larger than 5mm when stretched), and remove or cover barbed wire.

2. Give them space. Keep pets inside or away from any flying fox within reach.

3. Call us or your local wildlife rescue organisation - do not handle. Only vaccinated, trained rescuers should touch a flying fox. If you are bitten or scratched, wash the area with soap and water for at least 15 minutes and seek medical advice.

Sydney Wildlife Rescue: (02) 9413 4300, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Flying foxes pollinate our eucalypts and spread seeds across vast distances, keeping Sydney's bushland healthy.

The grey-headed flying fox is listed as vulnerable to extinction, so every animal we can save matters.

Our volunteers are giving everything they can. If you would like to support them, you can donate on our website - every single cent goes to caring for wildlife in care. 💚

04/10/2026

👀🦘 See it through their eyes. 💚🌿 Today on World Animal Day, we’re celebrating the incredible native animals we’re so lucky to share this country with — from tiny possums and soaring birds to echidnas, wombats and everything in between. 🐨🦉🦔🦇 They are precious, wild and worth protecting.

💚 Thank you to our amazing volunteers who give their time, care and compassion every single day to help our native wildlife survive, heal and return to the wild. 🙏🐾 See the world through their eyes. Protect the wild they call home. 🌏💚✨



https://www.sydneywildlife.org.au

02/10/2026

Spread the word - wildlife about and YOU CAN HELP protect them!

Thanks New South Wales Wildlife Council for this important message.

20/09/2026

Love dancing? Love great music? Love retro? Love wildlife? Want to help?

Book your tickets now to our Retro 80s Fundraising Dance Night on 14th November! Held in Turramurra.

It’s going to be a fantastic night of nostalgia, fun, and dancing. Promises to be a flapping, hopping, scurrying, hooting and squawking night out!

Event Highlights:

Retro 80s Theme: Get ready for the best tunes of the decade!

Tickets: Please note that disco tickets must be purchased online prior to the event.

Raffle & Prizes: We have some amazing prizes up for grabs! You can purchase raffle tickets along with your event entry, but please remember that you must be present on the night to collect your prize.

How You Can Support: Even if you can't make it yourself, please consider sharing the event details and booking link with your friends, family, and networks who love a night out on the dance floor. Every ticket sold helps fund the care and rescue of our native animals.

https://trybooking.com/DPEKP

We will see you there! All funds raised go directly to help the rescue, rehabilitation and release of wildlife.

16/09/2026

We LOVE a PLOVER!

We hope you do too - because today is Plover Appreciation Day!

An appreciation for these ground nesting birds - who face so many threats to their habitat. It starts with us sharing our spaces with them.

Included in the plover family are the very urbanised masked lapwings - pictured here in care.

Thank you to our rescuers, carers and rescue line operators who provide wonderful advice to our community on these curious and engaging birds - common throughout Sydney. Takes a special skill to raise these beautiful birds. Let’s try and protect them but respecting their nests and keeping an eye out for their chicks - masters of camouflage!

Do you want to make a difference to the wildlife of Sydney? We are running a rescue and care course in October and we would love you to join us! More information on our website.

https://www.sydneywildlife.org.au

BirdLife Australia

06/09/2026

It’s National Threatened Species Day - marking 90 years since the death of the last Tasmanian Tiger in Australia.

In 2026 alone, 34 new species have been added to Australia's national threatened species list, bringing the total number of protected flora, fauna, and ecological communities under threat to roughly 1,700 to 2,000.

Here at Sydney Wildlife, we are fortunate to rescue, rehabilitate and release a number of threatened species, including the Powerful Owl - Australia’s largest owl - threatened due to habitat destruction, rodenticide poisoning, car and window strike, to only name a few of the reasons they are declining so rapidly.

You can help by making wildlife friendly choices for rodent management, slowing down whilst driving, especially at night, dusk and dawn and putting bird friendly stickers on your windows. Izzy the owlet is currently in care following being poisoned by rodenticide - her sibling had already unfortunately died due to poisoning. We hope she can make it through treatment.

If you want to get involved in wildlife rehabilitation, we are always looking for new members and there is a role for everyone! Find out more on our website.

01/09/2026

🦘🌸 SPRING HAS SPRUNG… AND SO HAVE THE BABIES! 🐣🦉

Spring has officially arrived in Sydney, which means flowers are blooming, birds are singing, and native wildlife babies are about to start getting themselves into all sorts of adorable trouble. 😂

Tiny possums. Wobbly fledglings. Baby birds who have apparently decided that “the ground looks like a perfectly reasonable place to live.” 🐦🤦‍♀️

And that’s where you come in! 💚

Our Sydney Wildlife Rescue Rescue & Care Course starts this October, giving you the skills and knowledge to help native wildlife when they need us most.

You’ll learn how to safely rescue and care for injured, sick and orphaned Australian wildlife — because being the person who gets to say “I rescued a baby possum today” is considerably more rewarding than saying “I watched Netflix today.” 😉

Whether you’ve always dreamed of helping wildlife, want to give something back to your community, or simply have a soft spot for anything with a fluffy face and enormous eyes… we need you!

🌿 Rescue & Care Course – October 2026
🦔 Learn the skills
🦜 Meet like-minded wildlife lovers
🐾 Help our native animals
💚 Become part of the Sydney Wildlife Rescue family

Spring babies are coming… and they’re going to need people like you.

Come join us. Your future patients may be tiny, fluffy and completely incapable of saying thank you — but we promise they’ll steal your heart anyway. 🥹💚

👉 Find out more and register for the October course!

https://www.sydneywildlife.org.au/become-a-volunteer/

Thank you for your interest in joining Sydney Metropolitan Wildlife Services (Sydney Wildlife). We are a non-profit wildlife organisation operating under licence from the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service.