These Wildlife Information sheets are provided as .pdf (portable document format) documents which can be downloaded to read offline or printed.

PDF files can be read or printed using Adobe's Acrobat Reader available free at Adobe's web site.

Australian Brush Turkey 
Information about identifying a Brush Turkey, their natural diet and breeding, and advice if you have one in your garden.

Bandicoots 
Description, habitat, breeding and behaviour information of bandicoots and advice if you have one in your garden.

Bushfire Advice
Helping native animals after bushfires.

Becoming a Wires volunteer 
Information on who can train to become a WIRES volunteer, how you can become a volunteer and what our volunteers do for native wildlife in distress.

Cats and wildlife 
How you and your cat can live with wildlife. Safety advice for your pet and our native animals and birds.

Facts about WIRES
Facts and figures about WIRES Australia's largest native wildlife rescue organisation.

Gardening for Wildlife 
Advice on providing the best habitat in your garden to encourage and assist native wildlife.

Let nature feed itself, natural foods for wildlife 
While many animal lovers like to feed native wildlife it can be very harmful. Please read our factsheet.

Living with magpies 
Advice and information on magpies including information about swooping magpies.

Living with possums and how to make a brushtail possum box
Possums in an urban environment and how you can help.

Making possum pouches
If you are a knitter you can help our volunteers who are always in need of possum pouches. This factsheet has the dimensions and requirements of small possum pouches.

Making macropod pouches 
We also need larger pouches for young kangaroo joeys. This factsheet has the specifications.

Making a ringtail possum home
Ringtail possums are much smaller than Brushtail possums and have different requirements for a home. It is relatively easy to make one, this sheet provides information on how. 

Native birds
Advice and information about native birds and why we advise people not to feed them as it can cause enormous harm. 

People and Plovers
Information on plovers and what you can do.

Responsible Pet Ownership 
How you can be a responsible pet owner to ensure native wildlife and our pets can share our urban spaces in harmony.

Threats to our wildlife
Australia's wildlife is under enormous pressure from habitat loss to feral animal predation. Read more.

Wildlife Friendly Fruit Tree Netting
Bats and birds are important to our environment. Read this information about how to safely protect fruiting trees and minimise distress and damage to our wildlife.