The Bird is there.
Here, give me a camera.
G'day,
Hello! -And Welcome
to the Australia Zoo rescue unit.
Today we are tagging along with the awesome rescue team
to basically help out with everything rescue.
Every single day, it's something different.
And the rescue unit is a really big part
of the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital.
We go out every single day,
respond to calls,
pick up animals from local vets,
take them back to our hospital,
get them treated,
and then release them back out into the wild.
And honestly, you never know what's going to happen.
Definitely, the rescue unit can get up to a hundred calls
every single day,
drive hundreds of kilometers every single day.
So, busy one ahead of us.
Let's do it. -Yeah.
Welcome to Rescue.
So we've just got a call
and Renee's just spoken to a member of the public,
someone that actually found yesterday
a little baby bird egg
and has taken it in,
put it next to- was it their refrigerator?
They've sort of artificially incubated it
and it started hatching.
And so right now, there's a little tiny
bird as we speak, coming out of this egg.
And we don't know what species is.
We're not exactly sure what's going on.
So we're heading there right now
to pick up this little bird.
And yeah- it should be exciting to see what it is. Gonna be great.
It's definitely not something that we see every day.
All right, we'll go grab him, ay?
Have a look at this.
Unfortunately, this egg actually fell. It fell into the pool?
Renee: -Yeah Robert: Is that what she said?
Renee: The whole palm frond fell down. Chandler: The pool.
Robert: The whole palm frond that the nest was built in,
fell into the pool, but this little egg survived.
She put it next to her fridge
where it was warm and kind of incubated it.
And now there's a little bird hatching out.
So I have no idea what species this is at this point.
I'm not a bird expert,
but if you look closely, you can see that little bit of movement.
That's the end of his beak
just poking out every now and again.
That is so cool!
So while we were on
the way to another vet pick up, we just got a call right in the town
that we were in,
about a little bird, a plover, that's stuck
in a pretty precarious position
on a high rise apartment building.
And there, a little tiny plover.
poor little guy.
So that's number one,
but yeah, number two is in a bit of a
precarious spot, hey?
Yeah.
So we're getting more information as we go along, but apparently,
the little bird was just
stuck on that ledge with mom carrying on
and calling out.
But it's interesting, we don't-
Nah, can't see anything, can't see anything at all.
Chandler: Yeah! Robert: Good idea.
Chandler: I think it's a good idea, look out on the ledge.
Chandler: I like that idea.
I'm way too short. Got the short Irwin genes.
Here, give me a camera.
This Chandler here, hello.
Me and Robert are currently on the roof
See the coast out there. This poor little baby bird has fallen
into a very precarious spot.
She hasn't made it.
This is the harsh reality with a man made environment.
Animals really find it tough to eke out an existence.
Not a good outcome.
All right, we'll get her back.
But at least we've got that other one that lived. That's so good.
Chandler: We've got that other one that lived.
And hopefully this will calm her parents down to.
Well, so unfortunate with that first one.
That was really sad, really, really sad It's devastating.
Hopefully this one pulls through.
It's so good to see that one at least made it.
And maybe the mom and dad will learn not to nest there anymore.
For a little bird,
it's a really tough place to fledge.
So, yeah, I mean, just
even saving one is really important.
And even though we are focused
on the baby birds, ultimately
you want to make sure
mom and dad are OK so they can -Yeah.
keep having little chicks on their own.
So hopefully this will minimize stress on them too.
Yeah, definitely. -help them carry on.
All right.
Good job.
So we're here, this is our final stop.
We are picking up yet another bird,
this is a noisy miner that's come to a vet clinic
and we're picking him up to take to our hospital.
Let's do it. Last one.
Nurse: Noisy Miner!
Robert: Hello little one. Chandler: You're okay buddy.
He's just got a little bit of an eye injury there.
Yeah. -Yeah.
And we tried to test fly him,
wasn't interested to take flight
and it's just his rear tail there.
I'm not too sure about that one.
So...
We'll get him checked out.
Awesome.
Robert: No worries, yeah, thanks very much. Chandler: Awesome. We'll do our best.
Alright.
Chandler: Alright Guys. Robert: So...
Last part of the day,
the last step is getting everyone
that we've rescued and picked up
back into the hospital.
So this is a little triage area at the wildlife hospital.
So we'll pop them all in there,
let all the vets know what's going on
and then as soon as they can, get everyone
all checked over and looked at.
Well, thanks very much for joining us, guys.
On an exciting day on Rescue,
we started the day with a lot of pick ups,
ended up on the top of a roof,
chasing after plovers. There's highs and lows every single day,
but it's definitely, I reckon,
the best job in Australia Zoo. It's so cool.
Definitely. Thank you guys for tuning in
And we'll see you next time.
Awesome. See you for another rescue, guys.
Renee: Thanks. Chandler: Yeah.
See Ya's
Woo!