WIRES Food for Wildlife:
Approved Wildlife Food List

Small Mammals

• Brushtail Possums - small amounts of sweet potato, corn and carrot
• Mountain Brushtail Possums – small amounts of sweet potato
• Echidnas – eggs, lean mince*
• Tasmanian Devils – meat* such as beef heart, raw beef bones, raw chicken carcasses and most fish**
• Quolls – eggs and meat* such as raw chicken carcasses
• Phascogales – eggs and lean meat*
• Bandicoots – lean beef mince
• Tree kangaroo – small amounts of sweet potato

Bats

• Flying-foxes – pears, apples, grapes, stone fruit, paw paw and melons (avoid watermelon), full-fat flavoured yoghurt and goats or cows milk
• Microbats – goats milk

Reptiles

• Blue-tongues, Shinglebacks, Cunningham skinks, Pink-tongued Skinks, Land Mullets - apples, pears, grapes, melons, mango, peas, carrots, pumpkin and leafy green vegetables
• Monitor lizards – raw chicken carcasses
• Sea turtles – fish**, squid and broccoli
• Fresh-water turtles – long-necked turtles can be offered whole fish** such as whitebait and shellfish such as uncooked prawns. Short-necked turtles can be offered the same as fresh-water turtles but also spinach, parsley, dark leafed lettuces, cabbage, broccoli, pumpkin, tomato, apples, pears and stone fruits.

Birds

• Omnivores such as Magpies, Currawong and Ravens – meat* such as beef heart, lean beef, corn, alfalfa sprouts, bean sprouts, corn on the cob and peas
• Carnivores such as Butcherbirds, Kookaburras, Kingfishers - meat* such as beef heart, lean beef
• Insectivores/Granivores such as Plovers – eggs and meat* such as beef heart, lean beef
• Insectivores/Granivores such as Moorhens, Swamp Hens, Coots and Rails - meat* such as beef heart, lean beef
• Nectarivores such as Lorikeets - small amounts of mandarin
• Frugivores such as Figbirds, Bowerbirds, Orioles and Fruit Pigeons - corn on the cob, peas corn and carrot
• Frugivores such as Cuckoos – meat* such as beef heart, lean beef
• Granivores such as Cockatoos – corn on the cob
• Granivores such as King Parrots and Rosellas – corn on the cob
• Granivores such as Quails – green leaf vegetables
• Herbivores such as Geese and Swans – peas, beans, corn and green leafy vegetables (avoid cabbage family)
• Herbivores such as Ducks and Purple Swamphens – green leafy vegetables (avoid cabbage family)
• Piscivores such as Shorebirds (Terns, Pelicans and Seagulls) and true seabirds (Albatross, Shearwaters, Petrels and Cormorants) - fish** such as whitebait, pilchards, red-spot whiting, sardines, squid and mullet
• Piscivores/Insectivores such as Ibis, Herons, Darters and Egrets - meat* such as beef heart, lean beef and small fish**
• Piscivores such as Penguins – oily fish**
• Raptors - meat* such as beef or lamb heart, raw chicken carcass and fish**