We are no longer asking people to fill in the online rescue form, unless it is to report a species not yet recorded as entangled on fences. This is the list of species to date. Click here if you would like to report a new species:
BATS
Spectacled flying fox (Pteropus conspicillatus)
Grey-headed flying fox (Pteropus poliocephalis)
Black flying fox (pteropus alecto)
Little Red flying fox (Pteropus scapulatus)
Tube-nosed fruitbat (Nyctimene robinsonii)
Common Blossom bat (Syconycteris australis)
Long-eared bat (Nyctopilus bifax)
Ghost bats (Macroderma gigas)
White-striped freetail (Tadarida australis)
BIRDS
Kookaburra, Galah, Rock Dove, Australian Magpie, White-winged Chough, Metallic Starling
Royal Spoonbill, Silver Gull, White-faced Heron, White-necked (Pacific) Heron, Short-tailed shearwater, Australian Pelican, Nankeen Night Hern
Buff-banded Rail, Little Button-quail, Red-chested Button-quail, Lathams Snipe, Bush Stone-curlew, Black-fronted Dotterel, Masked lapwing
Rainbow Lorikeet, Red-rumped parrot, Sulphut-crested Cockatoo, Little Corella, Night Parrot, Bourke's Parrot, Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo
Nankeen Kestrel, Wedge-tailed Eagle, Brown Falcon, Peregrine Falcon, Australian Hobby, Chestnut-breated Quail-thrush
Common Bronzewing, Flock Bronzewing, Crested Pidgeon, Inland Dotterel, Galah, Australian Ringneck, Budgerigar, Zebra Finch
Southern Boobook, Barn Owl, Grass Owl, Tawny Frogmouth, Australian Owlet-nightjar, Masked Owl
Sarus Crane, Brolga, Australian Bustard
Southern Cassowary
GLIDERS
Mahogany glider (Petaurus gracilis)
Sugar glider (Petaurus breviceps)
Greater glider (Petauroides volans)
Squirrel glider (Petaurus norfolcensis)
Yellow-bellied glider (Petaurus australis)
OTHER
Agile wallaby, Tasmanian Pademelon
Brush-tailed Bettong, Grassland Melomys
Red fox, freshwater turtle
We received 313 rescue forms and are now collating the data.
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