🕊️ Help Us Build a Flight Aviary for Wellingtons Kererū
We are Wellington’s only DOC permitted bird hospital outside of the Zoo, we need your help to build a flight aviary for our cities kererū.
Korokoro, Lower Hutt
🩹 🐦 🏥 Flock Birdcare Wellington is a small DOC-permitted bird hospital entirely self funded and by volunteers and donations.
🪺 🌱💕 We care for sick, injured, and orphaned native and introduced birds, helping them recover and prepare for release back into the wild.
Flock is now the only DOC permitted bird rehabilitation facility in Wellington besides The Nest at Wellington Zoo.
⚠️ But, we can't accept kererū just yet. First we need to complete a purpose built 4x2m predator proof flight aviary.
Once the aviary is complete, kererū will have a safe species appropriate space to recover, rebuild strength, and return to the wild right here in Wellington.
Every donation goes directly towards building this aviary and creating that lifeline for kererū.
Ngā mihi nui for supporting our work. Together, we can make Wellington a safer place for our birds 🤝🥬🦆
📌 DOC Wildlife Act Permit No. 120038-FAU
For more information, please visit our website.
🌐 Flock Wellington
Nyssa Skorji's involvement (page creator)
DOC permitted bird hospital in Lower Hutt, run and funded by volunteers & donations. Our vets are Avian Empire, we are WReNNZ members supported by local vet clinics and the SPCA. Donations go into a dedicated account for operations and aviary costs
Use of funds
Funds will go towards purchasing and labor to build a 4x2m predator-proof flight aviary for rehabilitating native birds. If we don’t meet our target, donations will still support native bird care and facility upgrades to meet DOC standards.
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Latest update
We got our doc permit 💫🐦 🙌 25 September 2025
We are now DOC permitted!
We are excited to share that Flock Birdcare Wellington is now officially DOC permitted. This means we can accept native birds into care under our permit conditions.
Our permit covers tūī, pīwakawaka (fantails), tauhou (silvereyes), and riroriro (grey warblers). The one exception is kererū, which we cannot take until we complete our purpose built 4x2m flight aviary.
This makes Flock the only DOC permitted bird hospital in Wellington outside of the Zoo. Run and funded entirely by volunteers and donations, this milestone would not have been possible without your support.
Every donation to this page helps us take the next step, building the aviary so we can also accept kererū into care.
Ngā mihi nui for helping us make this happen
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