EXTRA: Has Bird Flu Hit QLD? (featuring The Twinnies)

Has the dreaded H5N1 Bird Flu hit Queensland? A sick sea bird has been taken into care on the Sunshine Coast under the suspicion of carrying the disease...and we have The Twinnies to talk us through it.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Robin Kidd and Couriotes.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
In the morning.

Speaker 3 (00:03):
So Queensland may have recorded its first about of the
H five N one bird flu case.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
What a name. Yeah, that's a big name for bird.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
Rolls off the dunk, doesn't it. So it seems to
happen around this time every year that there's a new
strain of bird flu. But a sick sea bird has
been taken care of on the Sunshine Coast right now,
and there's as a couple of people who are looking
after this seabird who you would recognize if you've ever
seen TV, like one of the I think they're on
today this morning or sometimes they've become fairly viral on

(00:34):
Instagram because they're twins.

Speaker 4 (00:36):
Yeah, they're the twinies, the twinnies, and they look after
amazing birds up on the Sunny coast and we've got
them online with us.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Hello Bridget and Paula, good morning. Hello, tell us how
is that sick bird? Where did you find it?

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Well? Actually Wildlife News, so the rescue and then he
got swa she did, and then he got delivered in
a carnival box to our center.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
And what kind of bird is it?

Speaker 2 (01:07):
He's a nold and Gie petrol.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
Can you describe how big the petrel is.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
He's quite a large bird and the wingspan is absolutely amazing.

Speaker 4 (01:19):
Yeah, and so how are you taking care of him?
Because isn't it dangerous with bird flu?

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yeah? He is, but we've got a makeshift like like
we have got a little room that what we are
extemed in to make it bigger. So he's in a
quarantine room at the moment, he's away from our other
birds and we have to gown up and make sure
that everything in his face.

Speaker 4 (01:47):
So does one of you look after the sick bird
and the other one look after the other birds?

Speaker 2 (01:53):
No? No, actually we go in the room together because
there's a lot of clinging roll. How dangerous can this
bird flu be for humans? I don't think it is
as bad as right?

Speaker 4 (02:08):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (02:09):
And what were the science? How do you know that
this bird has bird flu?

Speaker 2 (02:12):
In Western Australia? Like they're falling over, they're very weak,
puffed up, head wobbles and eyes half closed. And this
peture what we've got She was showing on the minds
of the we witness and I couldn't stand up. But
the only thing he or she hasn't got was the

(02:35):
head wobbles? Okay?

Speaker 3 (02:37):
And where do you reckon this giant? Where does this
giant petrol come from? Where's it been flying from?

Speaker 2 (02:41):
They all fly from the Antarctic right?

Speaker 3 (02:45):
Oh wow, that's a long flight when you got the flu,
isn't it?

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Just like? We have got another one in care? And
she she came back negg is okay, from from the
obviously not from the same joint one.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
Maybe from the part of the ice girls. What would
what would these birds do without? I know we wonder
that I bet you do.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
And so we've been doing this for twenty what's.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
The Bridget and Paula story?

Speaker 3 (03:15):
Guys like, are either of you in a relationship? What's happening?

Speaker 2 (03:19):
No? No, no relations We give all our love to
the world.

Speaker 4 (03:25):
Single Would would you ever date without the other one?

Speaker 2 (03:31):
Yeah? We want into that one.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
What happens if we were to find a couple of
twins in Britain that we're interested in dating twins?

Speaker 1 (03:42):
Can we make it work?

Speaker 2 (03:44):
No? No, I haven't got feathers.

Speaker 4 (03:50):
Feathers some of our most favorite people and we do
the most amazing things.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
How can people help your bird sanctuary?

Speaker 2 (04:02):
They can donate to us. And if anyone's got any
like sheets and towels with no hold or okay okay.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Sheets and where do we send it to girls?

Speaker 2 (04:18):
They can just struggle up over the gate with closed okay, okay,
all right on sper lands Borough.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Okay know it? Well, yes, you guys do an amazing job,
and thank goodness.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
For you, thank you, and if.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
You change your mind about the dating, you let us go.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
We'll get it sorted by Robin and coreyotes in the morning.