So this is Juliet.
Juliet's a Baza.
Pacific Bazas are a local native bird of prey.
Which are known for their monogamous behavior, which means they mate for life.
So she was unfortunately hit by a car.
We know she took a bad knock to the head because
she's got a lot of blood in one of the eyes,
and that's called hyphema.
And she also has a really nasty wound under one of her wings.
But luckily, there's no boney change or no fractures.
She's going to rest and stay on oxygen, as well as have
some good pain relief, anti-inflammatories and antibiotics on board
for the wounds that's under her wing.
When she was found,
her partner, so the male bird, was actually protecting her.
So this is Romeo.
When the rescuers came to collect them, they couldn't even separate the two.
He's had a full anesthetic
and a full check over. X-rays, bloods and has a clean bill of health.
When we get Juliet to the point where we can release her,
we can send them off together.
So at the moment, we're just taking her bandage off.
She had a wound stitched up under this wing.
The wound looks really nice.
So it was stitched up three days ago.
Its looking fantastic.
So I'm just going to put another dressing on that today.
To stop her chewing at it.
So you can see that there's still some blood in the eye.
Mel: Its so much better than Saturday!
Yeah, it looks incredible, doesn't it?
So her eye is healing beautifully her wing wound's healing beautifully.
It's just the bruising on her brain that we've got to wait for.
And I'm just doing some gentle physio on the wing just because it's in a bandage
we want to make sure the joints stay nice and usable.
And then the important thing about this one is to make sure
we don't do it too tight and constrict her body too much.
So this one's just got to be on really gently
just to stop her being able to access that wound
but now it's just about time and waiting for the...
swelling in her head to go down.
Romeo's looking amazing, so I have absolutely no concerns with him.
He's just got to wait for his love, Juliet
to get better.
She is improving every day.
She still has a long way to go, but I'm keen to give her some time
with Romeo later on today.
Juliet and Romeo have both been here for about a week now,
and over that period of time, like Juliet's made some real vast improvements
in terms of what we've seen.
We're really happy of how that one's coming together.
The stitches are holding well and it's nice and it's clean.
The stitches will have to be in for at least a couple of weeks or so.
Romeo has been doing really well, just keeping her company in
the nursery as well.
So really happy how they're going
once we're happy with the stability of both of them.
Most likely they'll be sent off to a specialist wildlife carer
who is very experienced in the care of this particular species.
With birds of prey in general and raptors.
Of course they rely very heavily on their
eyesight to be able to hunt prey effectively
and the blood within the actual eye and actually obscured
our view of a lot of what was going on within the eye.
Overall from the first, from the first instance and first observation we've seen...
It's looking much better than what it was before.
Obviously the circumstances by which Romeo and Juliet came into
this hospital are very special to us.
And the story behind how Romeo has been protecting her throughout her injury
and keeping her company throughout this ordeal
means a lot to all of us here at the hospital.
So it's of the utmost importance to us that we were able to give
these two lovebirds the happy ending that they deserve back out into the wild.