WATCH: Beautiful moment turtle, birds returned to the wild

While the owl-like birds were initially seized by officers from the Department of Environment and Science (DES) from a wildlife centre that kept them illegally, the turtle arrived at Sea Life Sunshine Coast Aquarium in February, 2020 in an unrelated case.Named Iluka – which means ‘by the sea’ in the Bundjalong language – the sea turtle had the underside of a flatback turtle, but the head and carapace colour of a loggerhead turtle.A Sea Life spokeswoman said Iluka was born in a nest…



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