Reviews of BirdCare Aotearoa. (Hospital) in Auckland (Auckland).

BirdCare Aotearoa

368 Reviews

142 Comments

Hospital

Animal hospital

74 Avonleigh Road, Green Bay, Auckland 0604, New Zealand

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Open hours of BirdCare Aotearoa

Monday

10 a.m.–2 p.m.

Tuesday

10 a.m.–2 p.m.

Wednesday

10 a.m.–2 p.m.

Thursday

10 a.m.–2 p.m.

Friday

9 a.m.–2 p.m.

Saturday

9 a.m.–2 p.m.

Sunday

10 a.m.–2 p.m.

Reviews of BirdCare Aotearoa

J. C. (. C.

All good people doing good jobs rescuing birds in the community I’ve this baby sparrow injured by cat at my backyard still alive when arriving the birdcare sorry for the little bird hope it’s going well being looked after

D. L. R.

I saved this little guy in Titirangi road - his leg was injured. Called up the BirdCare Centre and they told me to drop him between 10-11. Really friendly service and appreciate that they could take him in. They even gave me a reference number so I can call on his status.

R. B.

I rescued a wee hatchling starling from my stable floor, I raised it for 18 days and then after a hard decision I took it to the Bird Centre as I knew they could properly wean it. I grew very attached, sounds silly but it was an amazing experience. Thank you so much for taking it in. I'm so glad there is a place we can take birds to in Auckland.

J. W.

Dr Miller and the Birdcare team are awesome. Support these people, donate, and if you find an injured or sick bird, go here and be confident they will get the best outcome possible in Auckland. **EDIT** - original review posted a couple of years back. Things have changed dramatically and Dr Miller has not been GM for some time now. I am leaving the original review text and rating as a positive legacy of former BCA as I think it is unfair to tarnish former executive management, and their army of dedicated volunteers who were able to keep this going as long as they did. True heroes and legends, who hyper extended themselves daily for their cause. In February 2025, Birdcare sent a rather cold email to their list subscribers announcing their cessation of services as we know them. In this communique they offer non-native rescuers no viable alternatives, simply making high level statements without substance or detail about community group upskilling that will occur to fill now unmet needs - asking for patience. There was no loud call to arms and no clear indication of the level of financial remedy required to maintain services (there has been lowlight mention of the need for support in their comms over the past years but no indication that this change was actually a likely outcome). They no longer care for non native birds. Sparrows, blackbirds, plovers, pigeons, doves, thrushes, ducks, swans - all now out of scope, rescuers - you are now completely alone in your cause unless you have a friend who is a vet and hasn’t already dumped you for asking about birds. In business I have always been taught the key differences between the “what” and “how” of doing things and the critical importance of the how. In this case, while disappointing - the “what” is what it is. I cannot remark or comment on the financial situation or its degradation - charity work is tough and people are not generous in 2025. The cost of coffee crisis has closed the wallets of people who can actually still afford to donate and this is a damning indictment of the state of NZ society. The “how” here however, is deplorable and nothing to do with commercials, and the response to public backlash has been to actively groom their FB comments removing any and all criticism on approach and going so far as to block people. Please note their new advice to the public on their website and here on Google - take your injured or sick wild non-native bird to your local vet. My advice: Once you’ve done that - leave a review here and describe the reaction you got from your local vet upon following this. Im sorry but unless it is one of 2-3 practices in Auckland with an Avian specialty you will be told to go away and probably brusquely (unfortunately copious sums of money does not improve this response - I tried). Try and be persistent - but be careful if you also rely on this vet practice to care for your pets. They (vet clinics) used to tell people to go to Birdcare. I do not know what they will say now. Very poorly managed change. I would suggest an ADKAR course for the seniors perhaps might help for future changes.

М. В.

Lovely place, great to know that someone cares of injured birds

A. S.

This was a fantastic place to take an injured bird my cat brought in. Knowledgeable, quick and very kind. They even gave me a little calling card so I can check up on the bird. It's the little touches like that that make this place fantastic

P. C.

Found an injured Mallard on the road and dropped it off BirdCare. It was comforting to know that the duck would be looked after. Thank you so much for all you do. 💕

A. J.

Think ahead and try to bring a donation with rescued birds or make time to pop in and lend a hand. Run by busy volunteers who clean poop, feed and care for wild birds in all weather, right through every holiday and often for months on end. In the 15 minutes I was there 5 cars arrived to drop off more than 10 birds. Heroes.

A wonderful place. Full of very hardworking people caring for birds. Please do contribute with a donation if you can.

L. W.

Had to take a baby tui . Was a long way to go and unfortunately they are on restricted hours. The lovely lady on the phone knew it would take us possibly outside their hours but she said to come anyway and they would take it. On arrival there was a huge queue and more arriving after us. These people do a fantastic job they should be applauded for what they do ❤

B. G.

Great team doing great work. Be sure to help out with a donation if you can.

A. S.

Awesome service worthy of your support and donation. Dropped off a waxeye fledgling to them we had found and fed some farex as recommended for nectar eaters.

S. C.

The lady there was very helpful in taking the injured bird in. A bunch of dedicated folk.

J. R.

We dropped off a baby dove at the Centre, lovely place and great team there looking after the birds, please do some donation if you can.

P. L.

Great place. Friendly and passionate team. We were happy to find a safe place for the dove we found near our house.

This place is amazing. End up using them quite regularly. Open from 8:30 to 16:30 so it's important to keep those injured or abandoned birds warm if you can't get there straight after getting the bird. In need of volunteers, if you are interested have a look at their website to apply.

k. p.

The careers who look after our feathered friends do a good job of helping them get well. Great Job to them.

S. Y.

Great place for bird rescue 👏, good staff communication, around applause 👏

M. B. O.

BirdCare do an amazing job taking in birds and helping them. Thank you, keep up the great work.

C. K.

They do a great job helping the birds. You can volunteer here and donate to help the sick birds. Lots of baby birds being helped.

v. c.

Caring helpful people.They helped me with orphaned spotty thrush in the nest, and today I dropped an injured pigeon to them.it turned up on my doorstep and just sat there.

C. W.

They were very happy to take care of bird I found.

Wonderful caring place for our sick and injured birds. The team were amazing when I took in an injured bird. You guys are awesome 👏👏👏👏

A. H.

Amazing staff with amazing values and such an amazing cause thank you all so much for all your efforts ❤️

D. N.

Such a great place! Fabulous people working hard to care for NZ Native and Non-Native Birds.

Friendly staff and they do great things looking after birds that need help. We rescued a wax-eye chick from our cat and took it to them to treat and look after until it had grown enough to fly. We made a donation also as it was the least we could do to help support the rehabilitation of a native bird. Do consider supporting this worthy cause.

R. R.

Lovely people, very professional. I'm very grateful for their service

D. V.

Very friendly and very helpful . Such a positive thing they do rescuing birds .. amazing people

J. M.

We took a baby bird there and they were excellent. Staff were so friendly and the set up was superb. The NZ bird rescue centre relies on donations for this worthy cause. Thank you.

B. F.

Very friendly staff . Super helpful

L. A.

What a place! One of a kind! Our pup bit a bird. We took care of it overnight and then I drove it to NZ Bird Rescue. They sure have full hands, people already waiting with injured birds. NZ needs place like this to look after its wildlife! Very nice lady took care of me and was very warm and welcoming.

N. R. I.

They are doing a great job! We found a newborn Sparrow a week ago and managed to raise him until today that we left him with this amazing team. We trust they will take care of him from now on. Pictures of Day 1 and Day 8 🥰

D. H.

Very helpful people. Pleasure to deal with. Highly recommend

They do an amazing job of taking in injured and orphaned wildlife.

S. M.

I felt welcomed and my questions were answered kindly by the young female volunteer. Such a ling way to go...if only we had a bird rescue in South Auckland.

M. H.

This wonderful place has always welcomed the poor little birdies we've found either fallen from their nests or hurt somehow. Thank you for all you do you wonderful people.

S. M. M.

A popular place to take injured birds, where the variety of extremely knowledgeable people genuinely care for the animals entrusted in their restorative care. Aviaries, warming area and recovery/hospital room needed to treat Auckland and its surrounding regions' bird life, comprise the area's sole bird rescue service. They appreciate donations of all kinds and eftpos is available.

G. M.

A Special thank you to everyone helping and taking this little newbie in this morning ❤️09/07/20. I was distraught in the first instance and what to do? This little chick fell out of its nest, landing in a smaller tree below breaking it's fall and hanging about unknown. I decided to rake the debris from the recent storms and this little one all of a sudden fell to the ground in front of me. I'm so happy i could check this little one in 200709#4 with you. Thank you everyone so much. You are all stars. Gavin Mc.

z. B.

Please bring injured birds here. Unfortunately we cannot accept roosters. A good charity to donate.

A. C.

They took in a bird we found and are caring for him

Y. K.

Walking my little dog in the evening and this Baby Gull was trying to fly and looked weak. Took him home next day rang Bird Rescue in Auckland. They would take him but I live in Thames so I have to bring him up. Talked with local Vet and great news a Lady in Thames looks after Birds needing Rescue. All what Baby Gull needs is lots of Food he was under weight. Thanks to the Lady in Thames 🤗

I. L. R.

When I droped off an injured duck, there were 6 other people in the short time I was there also dropping off injured birds but not one person made a donation- so please, if you can, give a donation to help the many many injured birds being dropped off here every hour, every day.

A. W.

Fantastic team of caring and compassionate people.

l. m.

Great place friendly team rehabillitated my duck so amazing and called when she was ready these people are fab i only wish they had govt funding they are hardworkers and the facility is excellent your teamare amazing thankyou for all your wonderful services please donate they need donations

S. M.

Amazing, caring people devoting their 'spare time' to looking after very sick and injured birds, voluntarily. I was most impressed with their set up for caring for all different types of birds and rehabilitating them ready for release as soon as they are able to eat on their own.

K. R.

Good service, took in the young injured duck we found, just hoping they were able to help it.

J. B.

Very competent and friendly staff. Saved 3 birds already. Keep up the good work!

L. T.

Called over with a King Fisher fledgling caught by my cat. Had a quick tour of other rescued birds with Lyn Macdonald and was impressed to see how well organised they are. I left feeling pleased just had made the effort you drive to Green Bay. Thank you Bird Rescue for all your good and hard work.

S. G.

Very helpful, informed and informative. Great to pick up the newsletter with suggested donation items too. Next time I’ll bring some kitten food/baby food/farex/birdseed! Thanks to the amazing volunteers and staff.

B. H.

This is a well needed facility. Found a king fisher on the farm. Brought it to these guys to help rehab the little guy.

R. S.

This place is awesome I have taken injured birds 3 times and everytime they have taken them fixed them up and released them.

G. E. M.

Always a good experience to know these birds get a good start in life!

A. M.

Found a flightless baby parrot running back and forth on the road, one of those Australian ones. Cars running over top of him nearly hitting him. We managed to catch him and took him in to the hospital, so they could help release him in a safer place near his family. They noted down where we found him and were happy to help.

S. P.

Incredible human beings to dedicate their time helping NZ birds, native or not. Thank goodness for them!

These people do a great job with injured birds

P. G.

Very nice place. We adopted 2 budgies from them and their on going support is superb!

Great place to bring all kind of birds in need of specialist attention. Birds Injured, young, sick etc.

S. F.

Took in blackbird fledgling and straightforward service.

B. C.

Walking with a friend & found 3 baby birds. Took to sanctuary where the nice guy took over! Thank you for caring. BJC

superb meal with good company.

A. T.

Very helpful. Glad there are organizations like this out there. Check there website to see what they could use for donations.

Thanks for all the help and support you are offering to save these beautiful creatures

F. M.

Found an injured bird and took it in. No fuss, no payment demanded. Went online and made a donation however. Really nice friendly staff. And dont forget a friendly cockatoo to welcome everyone.

l. h.

Wonderfully helpful and kind people who are caring, knowledgeable and dedicated. Thanks for all you do xxx

They were very helpful when we dropped off an injured bird.

M. D.

We are so fortunate to have NZ Bird Rescue looking after our feathered friends in need!

save any hurted birds,really good place

O. O.

Wonderful people helping birds. Helpful with advice and took in an injured duckling I found.

What an amazing place and people who run this very worthwhile charity.

L. B.

Very helpful and am very confident that the injured bird I found will be well looked after. Very well equiped property and no hesitation in giving the bird the help it needed.

B. M.

Always fab to have somewhere to handover injured or orphaned feathered friends to get them the help and rehab they need if possible to acheive freedom once more

H. R.

These amazing people will attempt to save and heal any bird. Very knowledgeable and helpful. A real bird Sanctuary!

V. C.

Doing an amazing job for our birds

T. S.

Thank you for your support and kindness to our birds. Amazing job all of you do. To the volunteers amazing. You all are amazing people. I saved a pigeon named him Jimmy. Found on the road barely moving dehydrated a hurt leg and a minute away from bein driven over. Thank goodness I sore you move slightly. So relieved there is hope an d a wonderful place like you guy's exists. Xxxx Tracey.

J. L.

Perfect place for birds need TLC, good on you guys there!!

T. R.

Great place. They do fantastic work. Dropped a few injured birds here.

H. D.

Very helpful and caring

M. H.

Thank you for looking after the birds

P. H.

Great work,

K. T.

Great facility for the general public

C. V.

These guys do amazing things for NZ birds

D. W.

Very helpful people

These people to a great job to help our birds. Please send then a donation

K. L.

So friendly and accepting of the baby duckling. Much love. DONATE.

M. T.

Amazing place to take sick and injured birds.

P. A.

Yesterday i saved one duck and i m glad that NZ Bird rescue saved her...

S. H.

Took injured Ruru here and volunteers continue to take injured birds and rehabilitate over lockdown.

C. H.

Friendly, helpful caring folk. Thanks for all your hard work and care.

C. P.

Amazing People doing Amazing work with our wildlife 💙

Lovely place with very helpful, careing people.

F. T.

Awesome service. Thank u guys.

J. C.

If you find a bird needing help, these are the people to call! I wasted time calling department of conservation who said they would come and pick up a stranded Cook's Petrel, after leaving it in a safer place for a few hours they were to pick it up. Next evening, walked by and just made sure, poor thing was still there! Useless dep of conservation! Was very upset, went and got a box to take myself, of course when I got back it was gone, nobody saw anything either. Lesson learnt! Call bird rescue first! Bless you, great work!