CURRENT NEWS:

One-day Intensive Front-line Emergency Training

Learn to respond safely and humanely to wildlife emergencies, and develop skills to successfully care for wildlife in need.

Facilitator: Dr Lynn Miller will share her many years of experience teaching wildlife responders worldwide. Lynn developed and taught the course in MA, USA that was required for all front-line officers.

EcoFest Event

Tour of BirdCare Aotearoa

Saturday 18th March 2-4pm

74 Avonleigh Road, Green Bay

Adults $20, child 12-18 years $15, unsuitable for children under 12 years.

Booking required: support@birdcareaotearoa.org.nz

A tour of BirdCare Aotearoa’s facilities to see behind the scenes at this wild bird hospital and meet some of the beautiful patients in care. This is a special opportunity to learn about our life-saving care of rescued wild birds, and how our advocacy of bird safety contributes to conservation outcomes for precious taonga species. Brought to you by BirdCare Aotearoa.

Tickets are limited to 50 attendees.

Visit https://www.ecofest.org.nz/2023-events for more EcoFest events and activities

General Manager Vacancy

BirdCare Aotearoa’s wonderful General Manager Dr Lynn Miller is stepping down from the role at the end of March. She will be setting up an online training business, and will remain closely affiliated with BirdCare Aotearoa, which we are extremely grateful for!

Please visit the following link to Seek for the General Manager role: https://www.seek.co.nz/job/60026666

Admission hours are now back to 8am-3pm

During summer, BirdCare Aotearoa faced unprecedented admission numbers, stretching our wildlife hospital to its capacity. To avoid a temporary full closure, we needed to reduce our admission hours for a few weeks to allow our team to focus on caring for the hundreds of birds in care.

To help increase our capacity in the future, we are currently seeking corporate sponsorship and partners.

Please email support@birdcareaotearoa.org.nz if you know an organisation who may like to sponsor BirdCare Aotearoa.

A big thank you to two very special girls!

BirdCare Aotearoa would like to thank sisters Scarlett (10) and Mila (7) who raised $510 from their fundraiser at St Joseph’s school in Orakei www.facebook.com/sjorakei

Scarlett and Mila sold chocolate chip cookies, lolly cakes and homemade lemonade. They love animals, and have also fundraised for the SPCA in the past.

St Joseph’s school is a little school with a very big heart, teachers and parents fully supported the initiative and were very impressed with Scarlett and Mila’s commitment.

The team at BirdCare Aotearoa are very grateful to these wonderful girls for their dedication and support of the care of precious wild birds. Their donation will help to feed a lot of hungry baby birds this summer!

Seeking Volunteers 🐦

BirdCare Aotearoa is currently in search of more volunteers, in particular for helping to care for birds and/or raising bugs. There are also a range of other support roles available, including building, maintenance, reception and administration tasks.

If you or anyone you know may be interested in joining our team as a volunteer, and are based in Auckland, over 18 years of age, and available for a minimum of 5 hours per week, please click here to find the list of currently available volunteer roles or email volunteer@birdcareaotearoa.org.nz for more information.

Volunteering roles are hugely rewarding, and are essential to the operation of BirdCare Aotearoa. Full training is provided in relation to bird handling and care. We are extremely grateful for the support of all of our wonderful volunteers, we couldn’t do this without you.

Kororā/little penguin chick at BirdCare Aotearoa

PAST NEWS:

A few lovely gift ideas 🎁

The team at BirdCare Aotearoa are hugely grateful to all of our wonderful supporters – we couldn’t do this without your generosity – it is very much appreciated, thank you! 

Here are a few ideas to help with your gift shopping

Gift Certificates – We have a lovely range of electronic gift certificates available here

The Good Registry – If you’re unsure what you’d like for receive for gifts, you can set up a gift registry for your family and friends to donate to BirdCare Aotearoa in your honour!

Artwork, jewelry, clothing and dog leads – Thank you so much to the following amazing organisations for supporting BirdCare Aotearoa!

Fangnfinn artworks available on Trademe – 10% of proceeds of any other artwork purchased before end of December will be donated to BirdCare Aotearoa

Tara Cassidy Fine Artist

All proceeds from Tara’s website (www.taracassidy.com) until 31st Dec will be heading to Bird Care Aotearoa on New Years!

Leah Ingram Artist – kaki print

15% from the sale of this print will be donated to the BirdCare Aotearoa Charity

Tania Mallow – Cook’s Petrel limited edition necklace

All funds raised over and above cost for the first 10 necklaces has been donated to BirdCare Aotearoa

30% of the funds raised from the second 10 necklaces will be donated to BirdCare Aotearoa

Bird Shirts – Weka T-shirts

Half the profits from each tee sold will be donated to Bird Care Aotearoa

Lead the Way – Dog leads

Sales of these leads promote bird safety on beaches, and support BirdCare Aotearoa

Good in the Hood: A huge thank you to Z Energy!

BirdCare Aotearoa received a total of $2,780 as a result of the awesome votes received at the following four stations:

Z Mairangi Bay, Milford, Sylvia Park & Tom Pearce Drive (airport)

We are so grateful for the wonderful support – this will help to feed many hungry baby birds this summer!

Our Generosity Generator crowdfunder has now closed. Thanks to your incredible generosity, we raised over $20,000! This is a huge boost ahead of what we expect to be our busiest ever baby bird season.

Heartfelt thanks to each and every one of you who donated, shared our campaign with others, or helped in any other way. We’re absolutely blown away by your generosity.

If you didn’t manage to donate to our crowdfunder, you’re most welcome to make a donation directly through our website.

Voting open: 17th October – 30th October 2022
Location: Online

BirdCare Aotearoa is proud to have campaigned for the beloved Cook’s petrel (tītī) for Bird of the Year 2022 – Look out for our campaign again next year!

The 2022 winner has been announced – Congratulations to the gorgeous little Southern Alps dweller the pīwauwau rock wren! 💚

You can learn about awesome Cook’s petrels on Cookie’s Facebook, Instagram and Twitter pages.