A family house became a hospital for thousands of wild birds, but it has now run out of room. Tweet Tweet Rescue and Rehab needs help to spread its wings and find a dedicated facility.
Cape Town, South Africa (21 July 2026) – If the walls of Danica Munro’s home could talk, they’d certainly sing in birdsong. About fledglings that arrived featherless and fragile. Owls that recovered from collisions. Doves, sunbirds, hadedas, and hawks that left healthy enough to return to the skies. The walls would even cluck about rescued battery hens that ended up in Munro’s care, before finding freedom for the very first time.
Over the past decade, her house has become one of the Western Cape’s busiest bird rehabilitation centres.
Now, Tweet Tweet Rescue and Rehab needs help in spreading its wings in order to continue its lifesaving work with wild birds.
It all started a decade ago when Danica rescued a newly hatched dove after three unsuccessful attempts to reunite it with its nest. She knew almost nothing about raising wild birds, but remarkably, in her care, the chick survived. Then came another rescue, and another.
By 2018, overwhelmed volunteer rehabilitators were looking for someone – anyone – to help carry the load.
“I thought I had an extra hour a day,” Danica says. “I had a natural ability to raise, rehabilitate and care for the wild birds without humanising them, to ensure successful reunion back to nature.”
That hour every day has grown into eight incredible years. Tweet Tweet Rescue and Rehab now operates seven days a week, from 4am until 9pm, helping everything from tiny garden birds to injured raptors. Since becoming CapeNature permitted in 2022, it has cared for more than 8500 birds, returning around 70% of them to the wild.
Admissions have climbed from just over 1100 birds in 2023 to more than 3200 in 2025. And halfway through 2026, another 1380 birds have already arrived needing care.
These figures are a measure of success but they are also a measure of need. Every bird represents a phone call someone answered, a school child who found a lone fledgling, a motorist who stopped for a raptor on the roadside, or a concerned neighbour cradling an injured bird, with nowhere else to turn.
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It has since become a trusted rehabilitation partner for vets, SPCA branches and the NSPCA. It has even stabilised injured birds of prey before transferring them to The Owl Orphanage. Sadly, they have since had to shut down operations until funds can be raised.
Tweet Tweet finds itself at a similar crossroads. The organisation urgently needs a property that can become its permanent facility, because it has simply outgrown Danica’s family home, which currently fulfils the huge role of being a safe space for rescued birds.
A dedicated rehabilitation house would create proper treatment areas, ICU spaces, species-specific recovery rooms and room for education and volunteer programmes. The hope is to find a suitable property in Goodwood, Parow or Bothasig.
As a non-profit, the organisation desperately needs help in raising the funds needed to secure its new home, which would go on to help thousands of birds, for many more years to come.
The target is R2.5 million. So far, around R32,000 has been raised through an online crowdfunding campaign. Danica says that if enough people made even just a small contribution, they could help Tweet Tweet spread its wings.
The timing is dire, too. With spring only weeks away, the clock is ticking. Baby bird season is the organisation’s busiest time of year, with hundreds of calls that come through.
For many years, if an injured bird in Cape Town needed somewhere to go, there’s a good chance it ended up at Danica’s front door. She’s holding onto the hope that, this time, the community can help open another one.
If you’d like to support Tweet Tweet in finding its forever home, you can do so by donating via this link.
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