Caring for sick birds

This is a Workshop by Libby Sharwood of SAMREC (SA Marine Rehabilitation and Education Centre) Thank you Libby, you did an excellent job of explaining, sharing and educating us.

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This is Jades story, she's the seven year old in the pictures (Turning 8 in July).

The lady in the photo above is holding a fish and she showing us how they put vitamins inside the gills of the fish. She is also showing us how top hold the fish to feed it to the penguin. When you feed the penguins you have to be careful, because the penguins say thank you afterwards by biting your arm.

In the photo above, Charne and Stacey are feeding a Gannet bird with an intravenous drip. We learnt hold the bird and how to find the right hole in its mouth for the tube.

Above is me and Ian feeding a penguin. Oh by the way these birds are not alive. I am wearing glasses to protect my eyes and Ian is wearing gloves to protect him from bites.

In the photo above the lady is showing us how to feed the penguins with the syringe, tube and electrolyte mix. She also showed us how to pinch the tube, so that the food doesn't get stucked up again, when you are finished feeding the bird.

In the photo above the lady is explaining to us how to wash birds that have been covered in polluted oil. We must help the penguins by washing the oil off them and then looking after them until they are better. We took a feather each and dipped it in oil and then we dipped it in water and a whole lot of different solutions. The blue blue bucket at the end worked the best. In that bucket there was a bio-oil mix.