Featherdale Sydney Wildlife Park

Spring has sprung at Featherdale!
As the leaves turn green as we tune into spring, we’re delighted with surprises popping up throughout our animal collection. Featherdale is alive with bundles of new arrivals.
For your next visit, you can save with our Spring Saver package.
... For $99, you’ll receive: Admission for 2 Adults & 2 children (3-15y) Personal koala experience with photo Animal food vouchers and activity sheets for the kids 4 drink vouchers for Mum, Dad and the kids - (Choice of Tea, Barista Coffee, Water or Soft Drink) Souvenir carry bag
*Offer is valid from 1 September 2018 - 30 November 2018. Bookings are non-refundable.
Book online now and visit today 🍃 https://featherdale.rezdy.com/264929/spri ng-saver-package
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Today is #ThreatenedSpeciesDay2018 and we commemorate this day by educating and advocating for the conservation of our native, unique species which are at risk of extinction.
For this special day what better animal than to highlight the Koala üê®
Current threats to this species include continued habitat destruction, fragmentation, and modification, bushfires, and disease. Public concern for the species is high. There are management problems with several populations; remnant po...pulations living at high densities in isolated patches of habitat are at greatest risk.
With the largest collection of Koalas in NSW, Featherdale Wildlife Park is an active participant in breeding and conservation programs. Featherdale was a stakeholder in Australian Museum’s Koala Genome Project, where an Australian-led team of scientists has sequenced the complete koala genome. The genetic blueprint contains more than 26,000 genes, including a number of novel genes related to their diet and immune system. This is important for conservation and the development of treatments for devastating diseases such as chlamydia and koala retrovirus
How can YOU help? (1) Share this post to raise awareness for the Koala (2) Share Zookeeper Chad’s post with Archer the Koala (3) Learn more about today and why it’s so important https://bit.ly/2KjOjze
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Wonderful to visit TODAY with Zookeeper Chad and Archer the Koala to honour Threatened Species Week and spread the important message of raising awareness for Australia’s endangered species.
With the largest collection of Australian animals in the world, Featherdale strives each and every day to educate all Australians and visitors from around the world just how precious and unique our Aussie animals are.

SAVE A SPOT IN OUR ZOOKEEPER FOR A DAY PROGRAM THESE OCTOBER SCHOOL HOLIDAYS
The Zookeeper for a Day is a fully supervised program run by qualified education officers and keepers with morning tea, lunch and bottled water provided. Our budding zookeepers will also receive a Zookeeper for a Day shirt, gift bag, souvenir book and free kids entry for their next visit to Featherdale. Each child will receive a Certificate of Completion at the conclusion of the day
Save a spot via ...the link below: https://bit.ly/2MTWkky
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Catch Zookeeper Chad and his adorable #Featherdale friends on Today Extra on Channel 9 this morning - talking all things Threatened Species Day and helping all Australians learn more about the important Australian wildlife species that we need to learn about and protect.

At Featherdale, September is #ThreatenedSpecies month where we commemorate and spread awareness over our native animals at risk of extinction. Each day, we will our most threatened species that we care for at the park.
Today’s special species is the Plains-wanderer.
The Plains-wanderer is listed as Critically Endangered. There are now possibly fewer than 1000 Plains-wanderers left in the wild, and in drought years, when overgrazing of habitat occurs, the population may be mo...re than halved.
The Plains-wanderer is found in the low-land native grasslands in the Riverina region, in Northern Victoria and smaller numbers are found in south-western and central Queensland. It is effectively extinct in south-west Victoria, south-east South Australia, eastern New South Wales and south-east Queensland. Lowland native grasslands are among the most depleted ecosystems in south-east Australia.
The main threat to the Plains-wanderer is clearing and modification of native grasslands for agriculture. Even if left to recover, the grasslands will remain unsuitable as a habitat for decades. Where patches of habitat remain, they may be too few and dispersed to be effective refuges during drought. Overgrazing causes the Plains-wanderer to leave an area when grassland is reduced to a remnant, as it becomes too vulnerable to predators.
How can YOU help? (1) Share this post to raise awareness for the Plains-wanderer (2) Share Zookeeper Chad’s Plains-wanderer Post (3) Learn more about Threatened Species Day (officially on September 7 2018)
https://bit.ly/2KjOjze
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NSW’s worst drought is affecting countless Australians - even our Australian wildlife. Zookeeper Chad visited The Morning Show with two special members of our #featherdalefamily to share another important wildlife message.
https://www.facebook.com/morningshowon7/v ideos/304445810346102/

At Featherdale, September is #ThreatenedSpecies month where we commemorate and spread awareness over our native animals at risk of extinction. Each day, we will our most threatened species that we care for at the park.
Today is also #wildlifewednesday, so we are gearing you up with some facts with today’s chosen species through our infographics (view here: https://bit.ly/2MPbQ1h). Today’s special species is the Tiger Quoll also known as the Spotted-Tailed Quoll
The Tiger Qu...oll is listed as an endangered species in NSW. Its distribution and population have dramatically declined, and the animal is now found over a restricted range. In many cases, quolls are living in isolated areas that may be too small to support viable long-term populations. This reduction in distribution and population has been caused by loss, fragmentation and degradation of suitable quoll habitat through land clearing, change in fire patterns and logging, loss of potential den sites such as large hollow logs, foxes and cats which prey on quolls and also compete with them for food, feral cats can also spread diseases which affect quolls as well as wild dog baiting programs which may result in accidental poisoning of quolls.
How can YOU help? (1) Share this post to raise awareness for the Tiger Quoll (2) Share Zookeeper Chad's Tiger Quoll Post (3) Learn more about Threatened Species Day (officially on September 7 2018) https://bit.ly/2KjOjze
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At Featherdale, September is #ThreatenedSpecies month where we commemorate and spread awareness over our native animals at risk of extinction. Each day, we will our most threatened species that we care for at the park. Today’s special species is the Bilby. Bilbies were common in many different habitats throughout Australia until European settlement and occupied more than 70% of mainland Australia. Predation, predominantly by European red foxes and feral cats, resulted in bi...lby populations now only occurring in the isolated arid and semi-arid areas of Western Australia, Northern Territory and Queensland. It has disappeared from 80% of its former range The most critical threat to bilbies and many of our other native species is predation from feral cats and introduced foxes. Bilbies also compete for food and burrows with rabbits. Farming animals such as sheep and cattle, which destroy the habitat of the bilby and compact the soil, are also a potential threat.
How can YOU help? (1) Share this post to raise awareness for the Bilby (2) Share Zookeeper Chad’s Bilby Post (3) Learn more about Threatened Species Day (officially on September 7 2018)
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At Featherdale, September is #ThreatenedSpecies month where we commemorate and spread awareness for our native animals at risk of extinction. Each day, we will highlight our most threatened species that we care for at the park.
Today’s special species is the Southern Cassowary.
Cassowaries are of great cultural significance to many Indigenous Rainforest peoples,and are an icon of tourism in Far North Queensland. Being a keystone species means that they play an integral part ...in the maintenance of the forest ecosystem.
Their most significant contribution to the ecology of the forest is as a disperser of rainforest fruits. Cassowaries eat up to 150 different fruit species; it is estimated that 70 to 100 plant species depend almost entirely on the cassowary for seed dispersal.
Whether it is land clearing for farming, urban development or logging, habitat loss and destruction is the major threat to the survival and well-being of cassowaries.
Land clearing impacts on cassowaries in several ways including direct loss of habitat leading to a decrease in cassowary numbers. Most animals that lose their habitat due to clearing are not successful in establishing themselves elsewhere and usually die due to stress, predation and or starvation. Land clearing negatively affects the ability of adults to establish and determine territory and status. Birds in areas neighbouring clearing are then placed under stress due to displaced cassowaries trying to establish new territories.
How can YOU help? (1) Share this post to raise awareness for the Southern Cassowary (2) Share Zookeeper Chad’s Southern Cassowary Post (3) Learn more about Threatened Species Day (officially on September 7 2018) https://bit.ly/2KjOjze
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A little spot for Team Featherdale on the Tokyo evening news tonight! Wonderful for Zookeeper Chad to share his team’s work with the Koala Genome Project with our friends in Japan.
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. .. http://news.tbs.co.jp/sp/newseye/tbs_news eye3462366.htm
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Waiting for Dad to wake up like...
Thank you to our heroes, our helpers, our teachers, our friends, our dads! Happy Father’s Day 🎊
... We have FREE entry and a FREE meat pie for visiting dads today. Whose dad doesn’t like free stuff? 😉
Save time and grab dad’s ticket online ➡️ https://featherdale.rezdy.com/…/dads-go -free-general-admiss…
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Thank you Raj Suri for capturing the spirit of Featherdale so beautifully!
For over 45 years, Featherdale Wildlife Park has been the custodian of the world’s largest collection of Australian native animals, and has welcomed countless Western Sydney locals and visitors from across Australia and around the world.
Featherdale opened in 1972 with the dream that it would be a place where people could interact, engage and deepen their respect for Australian animals, as a rich pa...rt of Australia’s history, culture and identity. This is the dream that our team of passionate keepers lead by Zookeeper Chad, and our entire park team carry on today.
This is what also inspires our visitors, suppliers and supporters every day. By standing with Featherdale, you are playing your part in sustaining Australia’s wildlife.
If the future and welfare of Australia’s wildlife matters to you too, please share this post with #featherdale and show your support for the work we do.
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Father’s Day weekend has begun and we’ve got you covered with a FREE feed for dad 😉
Dads get free entry and a free meat pie today and tomorrow! Save time and grab dad’s ticket online via the link below
Get closer to the largest Aussie Animal Experience this Father’s Day 🐨
... https://featherdale.rezdy.com/…/dads-go -free-general-admiss…
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HAPPY FATHER’S DAY WEEKEND 🎊
Come in with dad this Saturday and Sunday to Featherdale and dad will get FREE ENTRY and a FREE MEAT PIE from our Featherdale cafe 🥧 Save time and grab your dad’s ticket online now. Make this Father’s Day a special one ✨. https://bit.ly/2BYxTxE

Today’s friend for #FeatheredFriday is the Diamond Firetail! To safeguard their eggs and nestlings, Diamond Firetails are often recorded building their nests into the base of the large stick-nests of a bird of prey, such as a Whistling Kite, White-bellied Sea-Eagle, Wedge-tailed Eagle, Brown Falcon, Nankeen Kestrel or a Square-tailed Kite.

It’s your favourite time of the week 😉 #throwbackthursday!
Here’s #Featherdale as snapped by: @k_hjun_ @laurabella20 ... @z1yeon_318 @mh0025 @jayjaylucas
If you’d like to get featured, as always tag us and use #featherdale ✨
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You will know our #wildlifewednesday star very well! Our star for this week is the Northern Koala. Everyone can recognise this furry Aussie icon, but do you know the basic 101 facts on this marsupial?
Did you know that Featherdale has the largest collection of Koalas in NSW? Why not come say hi to our friends at the park. And what better time than in September which is Save the Koala Month üê®
Access our Koala infographic via the link below -... https://bit.ly/2N0F0cT
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Featherdale is looking worn out, and considering Sydney Zoo will be coming in a few years just around the corner, no doubt they are feeling the pressure. For what you get, the cost is quite high (considering all close up photos cost significantly extra too) but I respect how running costs and the welfare of the koalas would force their hands on this.



The positive: It does offer very open experiences for patting and feeding wallabies and the education talks are well informed and are spoken eloquently and organically (not robotically like many other repeated talks at zoos etc). Most of the animals look well fed and healthy. I don't know about the food but apparently the cafe makes surprisingly good cappuccinos.



The negative: first impressions count. The first cage you see on entry is dark, dismal, and contains depressed looking birds with filthy substrate. I would consider refurbishing this immediately. The rest of the cages are relatively small and the black pint is chipping off the bars, looks like some of the birds were in stereotypic behaviour patterns. The reptile house snake enclosures, when we looked in, each had a newly defrosted dead white mouse lying on the ground without keeper attendance. It's a generally poor practice to expect a death adder to move to find still prey, they are ambush predators and not active seekers of food. And finally, the flocks of ibis seem to becoming a big issue, stealing food right from the beaks of Penguins despite two keepers being on hand to feed them. Not sure how to Control the wily things, but it detracts from the overall experience.



Summary: If you want a rustic, rather swift hands on experience with native wildlife, go for it. Just don't expect a bargain or an all day experience.

Featherdale is looking worn out, and considering Sydney Zoo will be coming in a few years just around the corner, no doubt they are feeling the pressure. For what you get, the cost is quite high (considering all close up photos cost significantly extra too) but I respect how running costs and the welfare of the koalas would force their hands on this.



The positive: It does offer very open experiences for patting and feeding wallabies and the education talks are well informed and are spoken eloquently and organically (not robotically like many other repeated talks at zoos etc). Most of the animals look well fed and healthy. I don't know about the food but apparently the cafe makes surprisingly good cappuccinos.



The negative: first impressions count. The first cage you see on entry is dark, dismal, and contains depressed looking birds with filthy substrate. I would consider refurbishing this immediately. The rest of the cages are relatively small and the black pint is chipping off the bars, looks like some of the birds were in stereotypic behaviour patterns. The reptile house snake enclosures, when we looked in, each had a newly defrosted dead white mouse lying on the ground without keeper attendance. It's a generally poor practice to expect a death adder to move to find still prey, they are ambush predators and not active seekers of food. And finally, the flocks of ibis seem to becoming a big issue, stealing food right from the beaks of Penguins despite two keepers being on hand to feed them. Not sure how to Control the wily things, but it detracts from the overall experience.



Summary: If you want a rustic, rather swift hands on experience with native wildlife, go for it. Just don't expect a bargain or an all day experience.

Featherdale is looking worn out, and considering Sydney Zoo will be coming in a few years just around the corner, no doubt they are feeling the pressure. For what you get, the cost is quite high (considering all close up photos cost significantly extra too) but I respect how running costs and the welfare of the koalas would force their hands on this.



The positive: It does offer very open experiences for patting and feeding wallabies and the education talks are well informed and are spoken eloquently and organically (not robotically like many other repeated talks at zoos etc). Most of the animals look well fed and healthy. I don't know about the food but apparently the cafe makes surprisingly good cappuccinos.



The negative: first impressions count. The first cage you see on entry is dark, dismal, and contains depressed looking birds with filthy substrate. I would consider refurbishing this immediately. The rest of the cages are relatively small and the black pint is chipping off the bars, looks like some of the birds were in stereotypic behaviour patterns. The reptile house snake enclosures, when we looked in, each had a newly defrosted dead white mouse lying on the ground without keeper attendance. It's a generally poor practice to expect a death adder to move to find still prey, they are ambush predators and not active seekers of food. And finally, the flocks of ibis seem to becoming a big issue, stealing food right from the beaks of Penguins despite two keepers being on hand to feed them. Not sure how to Control the wily things, but it detracts from the overall experience.



Summary: If you want a rustic, rather swift hands on experience with native wildlife, go for it. Just don't expect a bargain or an all day experience.

Featherdale is looking worn out, and considering Sydney Zoo will be coming in a few years just around the corner, no doubt they are feeling the pressure. For what you get, the cost is quite high (considering all close up photos cost significantly extra too) but I respect how running costs and the welfare of the koalas would force their hands on this.



The positive: It does offer very open experiences for patting and feeding wallabies and the education talks are well informed and are spoken eloquently and organically (not robotically like many other repeated talks at zoos etc). Most of the animals look well fed and healthy. I don't know about the food but apparently the cafe makes surprisingly good cappuccinos.



The negative: first impressions count. The first cage you see on entry is dark, dismal, and contains depressed looking birds with filthy substrate. I would consider refurbishing this immediately. The rest of the cages are relatively small and the black pint is chipping off the bars, looks like some of the birds were in stereotypic behaviour patterns. The reptile house snake enclosures, when we looked in, each had a newly defrosted dead white mouse lying on the ground without keeper attendance. It's a generally poor practice to expect a death adder to move to find still prey, they are ambush predators and not active seekers of food. And finally, the flocks of ibis seem to becoming a big issue, stealing food right from the beaks of Penguins despite two keepers being on hand to feed them. Not sure how to Control the wily things, but it detracts from the overall experience.



Summary: If you want a rustic, rather swift hands on experience with native wildlife, go for it. Just don't expect a bargain or an all day experience.