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For over 45 years Kanyana Wildlife has been providing hands-on specialised care and expertise to ensure our sick, injured, displaced and orphaned native animals are given a second chance.

17/10/2026

Baby bird season is definitely here and we have a lot of young birds both in our hospital and offsite care 🪺🐣.

These two young Tawny Frogmouths were brought in from separate suburbs in the Perth Hills last week, after they were found on the ground without their parents. The younger nestling was too young to be out of his nest, while the older was being attacked by magpies, so their rescuers took them to the wonderful team at Mt Helena Veterinary Clinic.

When they arrived at Kanyana, we were pleased to find that they were both healthy, bright and defensive (we are always concerned about their eyes, when magpies and ravens have been involved). Unfortunately we were not able to reunite them successfully with their parents, so our hospital manager Tasha has taken them into offsite care, to minimise their exposure to people and sounds.

This can be a difficult time of year for these gentle, charismatic birds. A windy day can cause a nestling to fall from its fragile stick nest, while our increasing urbanised landscapes expose both fledglings and adults to cars, cats, foxes, pesticides and artificial light at night, which disturbs their foraging. Please send us videos if you think a young Tawny is injured, sick or alone. In many cases we can keep families together with artificial nests, or by placing fledglings on branches while keeping pets and children well away – but sometimes they do need extra help.

If you are advised to rescue a young or adult Tawny Frogmouth, please make sure you record the exact found location on Google Maps, before bringing them into care. This allows up to reunite offspring with their parents, or adults with their mate. We must do everything we can to keep these families together.

Are you looking for a way to help wildlife this weekend? We'd love for everyone to make their windows bird-friendly 🐦 🪟!...
16/10/2026

Are you looking for a way to help wildlife this weekend? We'd love for everyone to make their windows bird-friendly 🐦 🪟!

Every year we see a significant number of birds admitted after window strikes. Despite the community belief that these injuries are minor and only require a brief rest in a shoebox, these patients are often suffering from serious concussion (not always apparent until the second day), bruising, air sac ruptures, fractures and spinal injuries that require urgent care. If they are released without an assessment or anti-inflammatories, there is a high risk they will be caught by a cat, once their symptoms start to overcome their adrenalin.

If you have windows at home that reflect the garden or sky – or show a flight path through the house – then they are a major risk for birds. Please see the graphics below to help keep your local birds safe.

And if you ever come across a bird that has hit a window, please don’t try to care for it yourself, or release it without an assessment - please bring it into care so we can start pain relief, arrange x-rays and monitor their injuries carefully. The sooner we can assess and treat these patients, the better our chance of saving them.

Please remember to check your garden for nests *before* pruning, this spring 🪺🐣🌱!This honeyeater nest was brought into o...
15/10/2026

Please remember to check your garden for nests *before* pruning, this spring 🪺🐣🌱!

This honeyeater nest was brought into our hospital yesterday, after a gardening contractor disturbed it while pruning a vine for a local property owner. The kind-hearted contractor was concerned to find the nest and rushed it into care, but sadly the egg was slightly cracked and no longer viable.

Every year we see cases like this, where eggs and baby birds are brought into care after tree loppers or gardeners have disturbed active nests. In some cases, where the habitat is still partially intact and the parent birds are still around, we can attempt a reunification, but often the eggs or baby birds need to be admitted into care - which is not an ideal outcome for any of our sensitive bird species.

We really encourage everyone to check every tree, shrub or other habitat carefully, BEFORE booking contractors or tree loppers, or starting the gardening themselves. Nests can be hidden anywhere from the ground to the tallest eucalyptus canopy, depending on the species of bird. If you do find an active nest, please consider leaving the habitat alone permanently, but at least until the birds have fledged and departed the nest. Please also note that our native birdlife is protected and that it is against the law to disturb or relocate an active nest 🪺.

Australia’s birds are under increasing pressure from habitat destruction, outdoor cats, invasive species, pesticides, climate change and other threats. Please help them raise their families safely this breeding season.

Australian Ravens are frequent patients at Kanyana – but they are also the reason that many other species come into care...
13/10/2026

Australian Ravens are frequent patients at Kanyana – but they are also the reason that many other species come into care.

This poor Common Bronzewing was found half-alive near a chicken coop yesterday, after a group of Australian Ravens attacked her. She had multiple skin tears over her head and body, feathers had been torn from her beautiful wings and tail and there was a deep tissue injury to the back of her neck, which had exposed a tendon. Sadly, her injuries were too severe and our team had no choice but to provide her with a compassionate end to her suffering 😞.

We believe that the ravens had most likely been attracted by the chicken eggs and spilled food, while she had been looking for spilled seed – and the ravens, being predatory and territorial, objected to her gentle presence.

This type of interaction is of course natural – if confronting - but it also highlights a problem that wildlife researchers and rehabilitators are increasingly concerned about. Our intelligent, adaptable ravens have thrived in our modified suburban landscapes, benefiting from our open bins and landfills, chicken coops, outdoor pet food and eateries. Our open, ‘architectural’ gardens favour their hunting style, while removing the dense native vegetation that rarer species rely on for food, shelter and breeding. Ravens are sadly having a negative impact on our bush birds, beach-nesting birds, turtles, owls and even our endangered black cockatoos.

We love our fascinating corvid patients and we recognise that our wildlife faces many other more significant threats (largely human caused) - but we would like to ask that people consider how their actions might be favouring our larger predators at the expense of less aggressive species. Please try to avoid feeding ravens, secure your bins, keep chicken coops and outdoor eating areas clean, cover compost heaps, pick up fallen fruit and vegetables and - most importantly – add more dense, local native shrubs in your gardens, so smaller animals have some protections too.

If you are celebrating Halloween this year, please take care with your outdoor decorations 🎃!Fake webs, fishing line and...
10/10/2026

If you are celebrating Halloween this year, please take care with your outdoor decorations 🎃!

Fake webs, fishing line and plastic rubbish around houses are well-known entanglement risks for wildlife across the US. We would hate to see Halloween become a similarly frightening event for our own native animals. Please help keep our beautiful birds, bats and other animals safe!

🕸 Avoid buying fake plastic spiderwebs, to reduce wildlife injuries (and keep microplastics out of your garden and home)
🕷 Reconsider one-off plastic purchases - most of the Halloween items available for sale are poorly made, unrecyclable and single use
🦇 Avoid using long fishing line to suspend outside decorations
👻 Avoid using plastic-wrapped lollies as trick or treats - streetside rubbish can attract wildlife to forage near roads
🎃 Put decorative pumpkins in your compost, instead of feeding it to wildlife (outdoor food can also attract rats, which may cause neighbours to use rat baits)
🦉 Take entangled animals straight into care, after you have cut the web or string around them - please don't try to disentangle and release them, as they may have hidden wounds or fractures

Also - please don't book a spider spray this spring! Our beautiful native spiders make REAL WEBS for our nesting birds, control pests, invasive species and insect-mediated pathogens, support nutrient cycling, act as essential food sources and create habitats for other animals 🕷 🕸 .

Whipper-snippers and other garden tools can cause terrible injuries to hidden wildlife 🦎This poor bobtail was brought in...
01/10/2026

Whipper-snippers and other garden tools can cause terrible injuries to hidden wildlife 🦎

This poor bobtail was brought into the hospital on Sunday, after he was accidentally hit by a whipper-snipper while a couple were preparing their garden for summer. They applied a compression bandage to reduce his bleeding and rushed him into care, but sadly his injuries were too severe and we were only able to provide a compassionate end to his suffering 😞. We really felt for him - and his rescuers, who certainly hadn’t intended to cause him any harm.

Unfortunately, accidents like this are quite common during spring and summer. Small animals often use long grass, weeds or leaf litter to hide from predators, build nests or shelter from extreme heat or cold. We really encourage everyone to please check their gardens, before they start work!

🥾 Walk through each section first, to alert hidden animals
🪾 Use a stick to safely disturb long grasses and weeds
✂️ Cut at the highest setting first, before cutting closer to the ground – this reveals hidden animals and allows them time to escape
🌳 Provide alternative shelter: hollow logs, rocks, local native plants (bobtails like soft herbaceous local native groundcovers such as Brachysome, Dianella, Kennedia, Native Pigface, Hemiandra, Hibbertia, Thysanotus, Tracymene or Austromyrtus)
🐍 Snake awareness: wear snake gaiters, thick pants and boots, if you are cutting long grass or weeds during hot weather and call a relocator if you cannot allow the snake close to your house

If you do accidentally hit a bobtail, please bring them straight into care so we can provide pain relief, clean their wounds and organise x-rays and surgery where necessary (please don’t release wounded reptiles, even if they are moving fairly well, as wounds can quickly become flystruck). You are welcome to message us if you ever have any questions about a native animal on your property.

A huge thank you to Sophia who raised $410 at a cake stall at her primary school which she has donated to Kanyana Wildli...
28/09/2026

A huge thank you to Sophia who raised $410 at a cake stall at her primary school which she has donated to Kanyana Wildlife. What a star! Here she is presenting the cheque.

It's nesting season for our female Southwestern Snake-necked Turtles 🐢 🥚!Nesting season occurs every year between Septem...
28/09/2026

It's nesting season for our female Southwestern Snake-necked Turtles 🐢 🥚!

Nesting season occurs every year between September and January - but this week's wet weather 🌦 may see the first of a series of mass nesting events, where large numbers of turtle mums will leave their wetlands to look for a safe, sandy, sparsely vegetated spot within 800m of their wetland or waterway. Once they have found a suitable area, they will generally spend an hour digging, laying their eggs and then refilling and compacting their precious nests, before they make their way back home. Most females will complete this process 2-3 times, during the season.

As you can imagine, these poor mums are extremely vulnerable to cars, cyclists, off-leash dogs, foxes, cats and ravens. Fences, rubbish, drains, high road curbs and other human-centered structures can also impede their safe movements to and from their nest. So if you are driving, cycling or walking dogs within 800m of any wetland or waterway, please keep an eye out!

🚙 If you find a turtle at the roadside, please protect her from cars if you can stay, or carry her across in the direction she is going, if you can't

🥚 If you find a female laying eggs, please guard her at a distance, until she makes it back to her wetland (if you cannot stay with her and she is in danger, or if you find exposed eggs, please message us - we may advise how to safely return her to her wetland)

🚑 If you find an injured turtle, please place her gently on a damp towel (not water) in a large bucket or secure container and transport her immediately to a wildlife hospital or vet (please don't provide heat over 26°C). Dead females should also be taken to a wildlife hospital, to see if the eggs can be saved

The Saving Our Snake-Necked Turtle team are extremely concerned about our turtle populations, which are increasingly impacted by habitat loss, fragmentation and degradation, fox predation, rubbish, pollution and climate change. Every parent, every egg, every hatchling is precious! Please help us help them stay safe.

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120 Gilchrist Road
Perth, WA
6076

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Monday 8am - 7pm
Tuesday 8am - 7pm
Wednesday 8am - 7pm
Thursday 8am - 7pm
Friday 8am - 7pm
Saturday 8am - 7pm
Sunday 8am - 7pm

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