Edwina Haynes, who is an authorised Wildlife Information, Rescue and Education Service (WIRES) rehabilitator, is currently looking after three Black-faced Cuckoo-shrikes whose habitat was lost due to the roadwork at the south end of the Holbrook bypass.
Ms Haynes has been a WIRES volunteer for just 18 months and in that time has been involved with over 40 animals from magpies to wombats and kookaburras.
“We work with agencies like Abigroup to look after the animals when big projects like the bypass are underway,” she said.
“I expect to have them (the Black-faced Cuckoo-shrikes) for a couple of weeks depending on how they are going. I will have to train them to ‘catch on a wing’,” she added.
Currently Ms Haynes is kept fairly busy by the three chicks that generally eat every hour.
Once the animals have been rehabilitated, the aim is to release them within 50 metres of where they were found.
There are three authorised WIRES members registered with National Parks and Wildlife in the area including one in Woomargama, Holbrook and Mullengandra.
If you see any injured native animal please call WIRES Murray River Branch on 0427 493 716.
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