Darlington Bird Rescue

Darlington Bird Rescue We are on limited intakes, chicks and young birds are our main focus right now. please email [email protected] and if I can help I will
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We take in most species of birds so long as we have the space. If we can't help, we can signpost you to the right place.

01/08/2026

Is there anyone near billingham that has a small net (can even be a butterfly net), to help catch an elusive little button quail loose in someones garden?

31/07/2026

The people guessed it!

This is a Little Grebe hatchling found at North East Wake Park this morning.

He is enjoying some warm bloodworms ❤️,
(Thank you again coast to coast for helping with another unusual case 😅🙈), every hour and is in the incubator apart from that. I won't be fully rearing this bird, I do not have the facilities (or experience) to follow it through as much as I would adore too.

You can truly see how small they are here. I did have to force feed him the very first feed as he was very weak, but soon after that he perked up and started pecking the food for himself.

Aren't those brows amazing!

After 5 more pigeon squabs arrived today, I am in desperate need of formula. It looks like 4 here, but another nakey bab...
31/07/2026

After 5 more pigeon squabs arrived today, I am in desperate need of formula. It looks like 4 here, but another nakey baby was hiding underneath.

I am going through a litre nearly each feed with all the hand rears currently, some are on 3-4 feeds per day, the smallest are on 6.

We use nutribird a19 hand rearing formula and columbae crop milk.

https://parrotessentials.co.uk/nutribird-a19-hand-rearing-food-for-baby-birds-parrots-high-energy-formula/

https://www.deliveraw-uk.co.uk/products/nutribird-a1-hand-rearing-formula

https://www.gardenfeathers.co.uk/hand-rearing/wildiets-columbae-pigeon-crop-milk-replacer.html?srsltid=AfmBOopHJqj7Afa3UtvHf9SxqemFAevndMGRh2bN0mc-5VlRaveEF2R7

Here are a few links to these if anyone would be so kind to send the babies some 🙏!

Donations can be sent to 67 Eldon Street DL3 0NN

A very unusual intake today. Can anyone take a guess what this little one is? (If you know from the post on my private p...
31/07/2026

A very unusual intake today.

Can anyone take a guess what this little one is?

(If you know from the post on my private please don't spoil it 🙏)

It is already eating from the tweezers and needs to be fed this way for at least 5 days.

It has feet like a moorhen/coot, it is not one.

It is not a duck. It is a completely different species that does dive for fish and small invertebrates.

30/07/2026

This is normal right 😂

Take a delivery of a fledgling gull at 11.30pm, just for it to crawl onto your knee and stand happily under your arm. He has the cutest face tuft

30/07/2026

Is anyone able to help with two calls in stockton please 🙏🙏?

Happy to pay fuel.

If people could just stop shooting innocent birds, that would be great, thank you. I am now intaking at least one every ...
30/07/2026

If people could just stop shooting innocent birds, that would be great, thank you.

I am now intaking at least one every 24 hours.

It is affecting me mentally. I can't keep doing this.

This is P-Dawg, she was found a week ago in a back garden, so likely shot very closeby.

I will be making another police report.

30/07/2026

Walk away from the very last mouthful of my coffee for a few minutes to feed babies, come back to a baby gull having the time of its life 🤦‍♀️. He only came in yesterday from Hartlepool and is making himself at home.

I leave my coffee through the back corridor or the pigeons will steal it, now the gulls too 😂

I believe I need a flask, but I hate drinking from them 😩, mainly because of their spouts.

(Sometimes people ask if they can get me anything as well as the birds, honestly, nescafe latte coffee sachets are the reason I keep going lol, if anything is going to be appreciated, its a box of them 🤣)

Video shows the young gulls (plus our disabled adult) eating reptilinks from coast to coast the other day. The corvids ate as many as they can before the gulls got free reign... As you can see, they didn't last long.

There are a few youngsters that unfortunately haven't healed fully from their wing injuries, the little one in the middle is one. His wing can actually open, so I've been doing physiotherapy to try and help him gain mobility. There's another that had a incomplete humerus fracture that healed slightly bowed, making his wing sits higher, but I've watched him flapping and gaining lift so he should be okay.

Then somehow this season, I have 2 half blind gulls, one is the tiniest baby ever, I don't know if he is a common gull or just stunted, but he's different to say the least, his feathering is coming in beautifully with normal development otherwise. I tried to introduce him to a new smaller baby also from Hartlepool this morning the finders called Dom. It didn't go well :( Neither can be with these guys yet as they are half the size, it's simply not safe.

The other is our Beyblade, who we knew from a few days old had difficulties with his eye and was in treatment. It was likely a peck injury from whatever dropped him off that roof.

I could write a whole series about the gulls here and still have more to tell

29/07/2026

I do apologise for the general lack of updates 🫶

I haven't been feeling great physically and have also had multiple pretty hard cases I have been working with so I'm just feeling very drained

Tomorrow I'm going to do an update post on the pigeon from Ropner Park who was beaten by teenagers. She is doing great ❤️

I am tired of receiving birds that people have attempted to rehabilitate and failed. This pigeon was found in Stockton o...
29/07/2026

I am tired of receiving birds that people have attempted to rehabilitate and failed.

This pigeon was found in Stockton on Yarm Road.

This is the 2nd time in a week.

This pigeon STINKS of TCP liquid antiseptic and has some sort of purple spray over the wound that won't clean off fully and has stained my hands too.

It has been shot through the wing, by the looks of it, a long time ago.

The other was a young wood pigeon found with rings that isn't self feeding yet even though it is more than old enough, who also tested positive for candida.

Please, if you do not know what you are doing, seek advice.

This bird will have been in agony without painkillers, TCP is TOXIC to birds due to the vapours it emits and the chemicals it contains, and because of the lack of correct care, this bird likely won't fly. The breaks underneath don't actually feel that bad, and have fused but because it has been left to fester without the correct treatment, the tendons are, to put it bluntly, fu**ed.

You can even see that this wound started healing a while ago.

I've cleaned it out fully, there is no full cavity thankfully, the tissues underneath are pink, healthy and rejuvenating slowly. There is a slight smell of infection in the underside of the wing where there is a second hole so she will be started on antibiotics, painkillers, and as she is skinny, I'll be giving her some crop feeds.

This is a juvenile pigeon too. It would've been shot as a fledgling with the healing presented

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