Today's Rescue

[den]

Eastern Rosella. This bird was hit by a car and has a broken back just behind the pelvis. Apart from that he is fat and healthy.


He'll never fly and can't be released. The tail is floppy and doesn't move to keep him balanced, so it won't help him fly.




And because he's so wild, he can't be kept in captivity. The Zoo has no place for him.



I euthanased him.

Comments

[hedgegoth.livejournal.com]

*sigh*
bugger indeed.

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

What a shame:(!

That is a gorgeous bird!

*sniff*

[rosequoll.livejournal.com]

Poor baby.....Amazing feathers....he was/is beautiful.

Looking at him reminds me though, are their any rules agains't owning native birds feathers? I REALLY need some for some projects, and have had no luck in finding or buying any.

[annvole.livejournal.com]

why are the most beautiful and most interesting animals only found "Down Under"? I have to go there some day (I think I better bring night photography stuff though for all those small marsupials)

[azhreia.livejournal.com]

just remember to watch out for the sheep.

(and the snakes, spiders, dingos, wombats, kangaroos, platypi, koalas, goannas and drop bears)


;-)

[athelind.livejournal.com]

:hug:

[makovette.livejournal.com]

Beautiful, and bugger all at once, sigh...

Mako

[happiestsadist.livejournal.com]

That made me all sad.

Dear lord, there's beautiful creatures where you live. We have...robins..pigeons. Ah hell.

[walkertxkitty.livejournal.com]

It's for the best. Birds who cannot fly but who were used to flying don't do well in captivity anyhow. It's amost as though they know exactly what it is they've lost.

Sure is a beautiful bird, though.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

There's no law against it if you can prove they came from a legitimate source. Try petshops during moulting season.

Birds we euthanase here have to be kept intact for legal reasons.

[claire.livejournal.com]

Poor guy. I love the rosellas that occasionally come past my house and look in my windows, they always seem to be having so much fun.

[tsjafo.livejournal.com]

Damn. *sigh*

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

They're quite a common bird along the s.e. area of the country, unlike most of the colourful parrots which are really rare.

[rosequoll.livejournal.com]

Petshops! Good idea. I've been talking to a friend who works at the Australia Zoo for redtailed cockatoo tail feather when they moult. I'd die of happy.

Understandable, and expected that. I was hoping more for moulted tail and wing feathers really.

[zhenzhi.livejournal.com]

oh :-( poor beautiful creature.

[sjwt.livejournal.com]

though we dont have cougars..

damm it, i want a cougar.

[dizzdvl.livejournal.com]

It's amazing at the colors nature can produce. Just beautiful.

*hugs* You couldn't release him, and if you had he would have come to a much worse end. You helped him even though it doesn't always seem so.

[annvole.livejournal.com]

Quollity control for Dragons:

I did not know what goannas and drop bears were so I looked them up:
http://geocities.com/muirnin/db.htm
and I read here:
http://www.deh.gov.au/parks/publications/annual/03-04/kakadu.html#toads
that Quolls are being introduced to some islands to control the Cane Toads. These Cane Toads seem to be causing the decline in the populations of the biggest species of Goanna (which I would say are the closest thing to dragons that you can still find and photograph)

Speaking of dragons, I am looking for as many pictures as I can of a certain knitting dragon other then the one on your website...any others? (ask Batty why I need them)

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

The quolls are being reloacated to protect them from the toads. Cane toads are so poisonous they wipe out who populations of predator species.

[annvole.livejournal.com]

Oh! I got that all wrong! (oops)It would help if I read it more carefully:
"A programme to translocate some quolls from Kakadu and near Darwin to offshore toad free islands"

Gray horned owl

[ladyursus.livejournal.com]

I read a wonderful article today on an owl that lives in Montana. They are very small until they open their wings into a 5-6 foot span. They mate for life and fight ferociously for their young. I don't know what kinds of owls you have where you live, but where I grew up we had owls (I don't know what kind) in the high desert that would hunt down the baby raccoons that ventured into our backyard (we lived in the country). We never disuayed them, because they were surviving like the living creatures they were. But once in awhile a rancher would shoot one because they'd gotten into his chickens or picked up a cat or two.

That bird in your pictures looks like a South American Love Bird I had for many years. The little fella loved to get in the shower with me and talk and talk while we got clean together. Loved that little guy. He's gone now.

Re: Gray horned owl

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Coomon Owls around here are barn owls, barking owls, boobooks, powerful owls, and frogmouths (not really an owl, but close.) I've rescued all but the powerful owl.

The eastern rosella is quite a common bird around here. In the mountains they lose all colours except for the red and blue, and down south they're more yellow and green.

Re: Gray horned owl

[ladyursus.livejournal.com]

How about hawks, do you have them? We always say them in the desert, and the quail and the wild dove. That was in Nevada. Here in California, I couldn't begin to recognize the birds. And the deer here are so small, the deer in northern Nevada were sometimes the size of elk (rarely). Do you rescue any of the big animals? Anyway, the powerful owl. Sounds like a majestic creature.

Re: Gray horned owl

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

We have kangaroos instead of deer here, and I usually only see the joeys orphaned by motorcar or shooter.

As for raptors, I've rescued kestrels, letter-winged kites, hobies (a small falcon) whistling kites, brown falons, and wedge-tailed eagles. Not all the rescues had a good outcome.

Re: Gray horned owl

[ladyursus.livejournal.com]

Ya, I suppose that's true, no deer there and no roos here. Do you have an ICQ by the way? It might be nice to converse sometime besides on the comment pages, that is my number is 194231806. I won't be home again until Monday. My email address is tracyrv@sbcglobal.net. I will get that on Thursday. Until then or if I don't hear from you, I'll just keep replying.

Anyway, is it possible to have a favorite animal (besides the bat, or maybe you can educate me a little more about that. We have those here, in the dusk hours. They love the bugs, of course)

Re: Gray horned owl

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

I am rarely on ICQ, but my number is 340356, battyden on MSN and batbloke on AIM.

I see insectivores and flying-foxes here. Remember, without bats there would be a lot more insects, a lot less rainforest, and no tequila.

Re: Gray horned owl

[ladyursus.livejournal.com]

I haven't used my ICQ much either yet, but what the heck, it is worth a try. And I I don't know how to enter battyeden on MSN. what is the suffex for msn? Should I just plain resort to asking the old bear tomorrow? Sorry I am not more adept at this stuff. All I knew about was email until I met him last spring. The ICQ number you will see right now is not mine, it is Ursus, so you may want to just wait till I get home next week, but I will give it a try...

Re: Gray horned owl

[ladyursus.livejournal.com]

Couldn't get you from where I was. That's o.k. I'll try again next week.

[azhreia.livejournal.com]

the only other picture I know of that is of a knitting dragon is on Urban Dragon's site http://www.urbandragons.com - go to the species list, then select knitting dragon from the side menu.

there are a few instances of a certain dragon with knitting needles in the comic we used to do as well.

the knitting dragon on my website was specially drawn for me in '98, to my specifications. I'd say it was a commission, but he never asked me for any money for it.

[rosequoll.livejournal.com]

Although a few have been seen trying the antechinus (yes?) version of eating them from the inside out. *gag* I suppose it does keep their mouths away from the poison...