Welcome to ALTBAYS Show (feat. Jess Hamilton and Leo Magri)
Meet Annemieke Kregting
Kuaotunu Bird Rescue started in 2005 when someone brought an abandoned duckling to Annemieke Kregting. As a veterinary nurse all of her working life, originally trained in Holland, Annemieke was the ideal person for this job.
Local people then started bringing other injured, orphaned or ill wild birds to Annemieke, and Kuaotunu Bird Rescue came into being.
Today Kuaotunu Bird Rescue Trust handles between 450 and 500 birds per year.
Birds are brought in from the very tip of the Coromandel Peninsula to as far as Whangamata, and include most bush, wading and seabirds, to the more unusual and less frequently seen such as bitterns and albatross.
To better handle this workload Kuaotunu Bird Rescue Trust has recently upgraded its hospital which now has a critical care/treatment room and 3 aviaries, plus a native bird isolation unit.
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