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20.01.2022 Some amazing records here! With lots of love and great care, we hope to see more of these records broken.

19.01.2022 Such a spectacular young man we were honoured to help.

17.01.2022 Bird Re-homing has placed many Galahs over the years. Here is one of our first in his forever home. We currently have two Galahs looking for loving homes.

01.01.2022 A lovely post from Melbourne artist Lamai Anne about her experience with Bird Re-Homing Services Inc. As always, we thank Lamai for her support for Bird Re-Homing Services Inc with her beautiful artwork donations. Her last donation allowed us to pay for the freight of at least a year's worth of feed for our surrendered birds. Please see available prints from Lamai at http://www.birdrehomingservices.com.au/lamai-anne to help us continue our work for all birds needing a new home.

01.01.2022 I want to share something terrible that happened to me and hope that it can be used as a teaching moment. Last week in Byron Bay one of my two beautiful lorike...ets Bachi was killed by a carpet snake. I did everything I could to make sure that the enclosure was snake proof but they can get into incredibly small places. I bought another cage for my remaining bird Mingus with much smaller bar spacing and made sure he was inside every night. One day the wind was incredibly strong and the cage blew over and he escaped. I called all clinics in the area, posted on parrot alert and lost pet finders and also on the Byron community Facebook page. A wonderful lady contacted me and said she had found him in her backyard one afternoon and brought him inside, put him in a box with some banana and water, kept him overnight then took him to the vet the next morning. I called the vet the next morning very excited and asked if they had Mingus. The guy who answered the phone said they hadn’t had any pet birds come in but he would check with the other staff and call me back. I managed to wait 6 hours and after no response I called again to be told that he was working on it. I finally got a call a little while later. They euthanised my Mingus as they decided that he had beak and feather disease and seemed unwell. So this doesn’t happen to anyone else, please let me explain. Psittacine beak and feather disease virus (PBFDV) is a disease that affects psittacines (parrots). It attacks the feather follicles of the bird and also the beak and claw matrices. A bird with PBFDV will present with feather loss on the head, wings (primary flight feathers) and tail feathers. They are often called ‘runners’ as they cannot fly. Some species like the cockatoo with have obvious beak and nail deformities. A bird with plucking issues will present with feather loss on areas that they are able to reach with their beak such as their body and their legs. Mingus had a very stressful event happen to him when he was young and he started plucking. I took him to an avian vet in the area and we started him on medication and coupled it with behavioural modification. He stopped plucking and was a very happy, settled and sometimes typically crazy lorikeet however the damage he had done to his feather follicles was irreversible and so he remained ‘naked’. I had him tested for PBFDV during this time as a precaution and it obviously came back negative. If in the future you find a bird (or any other exotic animal) in this area, please take it to an exotics vet or a clinic that you know to be kind to exotic animals. These places will hopefully have the intelligence, knowledge and kindness to know the difference between a very common viral disease and an equally common behavioural issue seen in domestic birds. If you are in the Byron area I cannot recommend Lennox vet highly enough. The team there are absolutely phenomenal and believe that ALL species are equal and treat them accordingly. If you find a bird and are unsure if they are a pet, try talking to it. You may look stupid but you could save their life and you have no idea how important they could be to someone. My Mingus was an avid talker. Maybe if they had spent a few minutes trying to talk to him I wouldn’t have lost my baby. If you work at a small animal practice and are unsure, call an avian or exotics clinic for advice. Post online on lost pet finders, parrot alert and Facebook. And if someone calls about their missing pet, please try to call them back as soon as possible. Even if you don’t have the full story, if an animal has been dropped off at your clinic let the owner know you are working on it. I hope this never happens to anyone else. My heart is absolutely broken.