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Bird RESCUE Centres

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NORTH ISLAND
Northland
Bay of Islands : — Russell
Whangarei :
Auckland Region
North Shore : —
  •  — Please contact your local
  • Doc Office
Green Bay area : —
  • BirdCare Aotearoa
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  • ( — Wild birds only — )
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  • Lynn Miller
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  • 74 Avonleigh Road, Green Bay
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  • Phone: (09) 816-9219 — EXT 1
BirdCare Aotearoa
Papakura area : —
Waiheke Island : —
Coromandel
Kuaotunu : —
  •    — Please contact your local Doc Office — 
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Waikato
Waikato : —
  • Wildcare
  • ( — ALL birds — )
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  • Sam Rufus
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  • Cell Phone: 021 917 322
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  • email: [email protected]
Waikato : —
  • Wildcare
  • ( — ALL birds — )
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  • Bill Smith
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  • Phone: (07) 824-2028
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  • Cell phone: 021 274 4256
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  • email: [email protected]
Athena's Bird Rescue; this pigeon fell out of a tree when he was a fledgling.
Waikato : —
  • Athena's Bird Rescue
  • ( — Non-Native birds only — )
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  • 1)The prefered method of contact is email or text
  • 2) I am able to take in lost or unwanted pet birds like parrots and wild non-native birds.
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  • Athena Rhodes
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  • Cell Phone: 027 425 2049
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  • email: [email protected]
Waikato / King Country : —
  • Bird Rescue - Waikato
  • ( — ALL birds [except pigeons & chickens] — )
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  • Judy Fentress
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  • Phone: (07) 823-6942
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  • email: [email protected]
Bay of Plenty
Wingspan; Falcon
Rotorua : —
Wingspan; Barn Owl
Tauranga : —
  • ARRC (Animal Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre)
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  • Sue Mackey, Co-Ordinator
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  • 56 Fraser Street, Tauranga
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  • Phone: (07) 579-9115
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  • email: [email protected]
Eastern Bay of Plenty  : — Whakatane
  • Bird Rescue Whakatane
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  • Cell Phone:  027 2090 567
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Central North Island
Turangi : —
  • Turangi Bird Rescue Trust
  • ( — ALL birds — )
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  • Carol Harwood
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  • 8 Tongariro Road, TURANGI
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  • Phone: (07) 386-6404
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  • Cell Phone: 027 383 7017
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  • email: [email protected]
Taupo area : —
  • Taupo/Turangi Bird Rescue Trust
  • ( — Native, Protected and Water Fowl — )
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  • Shelley Brown
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  • Cell phone: 027 486 6620
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  • email: [email protected]
Shelley Brown; Harrier hawk
Hawkes Bay Area
Havelock North area : —
  • ( — (Not Hawks) — )
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  • John Berry
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  • Phone: (06) 877-6205
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  • email: [email protected]
Hastings area : —
  • ( — [Not: Magpies, Mynahs, Rooks] — )
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  • Pam Turner
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  • Phone: (06) 876-8995
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  • Cell phone: 027 204 7674
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  • email: [email protected]
Pam Turner; Morepork
Napier : —
  •    — Please contact your local Doc Office — 
Manawatu
Wanganui : —
Palmerston North : —
Wairarapa
Masterton : —
  •    — Please contact your local Doc Office — 
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Moa in Greytown
Wellington
cormorant/shag
Wellington : —
  • The Nest Te Kohanga – Wellington Zoo Trust
  • ( — Accepts most native animals — )
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  • 113 Russell Tce, Newtown, Wellington
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  • Phone: (04) 803-0764
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  • email: [email protected]
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  • Website: Wellington Zoo
Wellington : —
  • Wellington Bird Rehabilitation Trust
  • ( — ALL birds — )
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  • Craig Shepherd
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  • Wellington Region Only
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  • Phone: 0508 NZ BIRD (0508 69 2473)
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  •  — (8am to 7pm only please) — 
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  • email: [email protected]
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  • Website: http://www.wbrt.org.nz/
SOUTH ISLAND
Canterbury
OBR logo OBR; Owl
North Canterbury : — Oxford
  • Oxford Bird Rescue
  • ( — ALL Natives with Focus on Birds of Prey: Falcons, Hawks and Owls — )
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  • Scott & Tracey Bowman
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  • 77 Sales Rd, RD1, Oxford, North Canterbury
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  • Raptor rescue and rehabilitation
  • — across the South Island —
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  • Cell Phone: 021 292 7861
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  • email: [email protected]
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  • Website: http://www.oxfordbirdrescue.org.nz/
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OBR claw
OBR; Owl chicks
North Canterbury : —
North Canterbury : —
Christchurch : — 
  • ( — I foster & rescue Non Native birds only — )
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  • Lizzie Wilson
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  • Cell Phone:   027 379 4348
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  • email: [email protected]
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  • Please note:
  • 1) prefered method of contact is email or text
  • 2) I am able to take in lost or unwanted pet birds like parrots, as well as wild non native birds.
Christchurch : — 
  • Christchurch Penguin Rehabilitation
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  • Thomas Stracke and Kristina Schutt
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  • Phone: (03) 967-7733
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  • Cell: 021 027 31123
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  • email: [email protected]
Christchurch Penguin Rehabilitation; Little Blue Christchurch Penguin Rehabilitation; T. Stracke -- this is not T. Stracke, its a (Yellow Eye penguin) with a sore foot
Christchurch : — 
  • South Island Wildlife Hospital
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  • 60 Hussey Road, Northwood, Christchurch 8051
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  • Cell phone: 022 106 0170
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  • email: [email protected]
Timaru : — 
Otago
Otago : — and surrounding areas
  • ( — Native Pigeons   [Kereru] — )
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  • Nikola Hurring
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  • c/o Doc Otago Conservancy
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  • Phone: (03) 477-0677 or 0800-362468
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  • email: [email protected]
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  • Website: website: www.projectkereru.org.nz
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Dunedin : —  Broad Bay
Little Bird Rescue — A young Tui
Palmerston : — (South Island)
  • Penguin Rescue
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  • Rosalie Goldsworthy
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  • Moeraki Lighthouse, RD 2 Palmerston, OTAGO 9482
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  • Phone/Fax: (03) 439-4033
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  • Cell Phone: 021 171 0832
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  • email: [email protected]
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  • Website: www.penguins.org.nz
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  • SKYPE: rosalie.goldsworthy
Little Bird Rescue — Two young Waxeyes
Queenstown : —
South Island Kaka, Kiwi Birdlife Park
Southland
Invercargill : — and surrounding area
  • Bush Haven Native Bird Rehabilitation Trust
  • ( — Natives, Tui, Kereru, Bellbird, Owls, Kingfishers, Parrots and Southern Falcon — )
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  • Kathy Morrison & Douglas Black
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  • 33 Oretia Road, Otatara
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  • Phone: (03) 213-0504
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  • Cell Phone (Kathy): 027 786 5365
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  • email: [email protected]
Susan Shannon; Kereru
Kereru; from Proceedings of the Zoological Society, 1881 -- Endemic bird Amokura; Gould -- Native bird Rook; Albin -- Introduced bird
  • Endemic — found only in New Zealand.
  • Native — birds that are naturally found in the country or are self-introduced.
  • Introduced— brought here by humans.

Information for this page is gathered and managed by Rosemary Tully.
Please email any additions or corrections to: [email protected]

Department of Conservation
(DOC emergency hotline)
  • EMERGENCY number (0800 362 468)
  • for: (native and endemic birds ONLY)