A far north Queensland wildlife carer is urging people not to feed wild cassowaries, saying the endangered birds risk death if fed near roads. 

The call follows on from a family of cassowaries nearly being run over on multiple occasions along the Kuranda Range Road recently.

Nearby residents are asking motorists not to feed the adult male cassowary and his three chicks in the hope the birds will head back further into the rainforest. 

The birds may also be eating rubbish thrown out commuters' windows while driving. 

Wildlife Habitat Port Douglas' Bruce Alexander said cassowaries were being fed elsewhere in the region and that it must be stopped. 

"Education has stopped a lot of people from feeding them up in the Daintree ... but there is still some feeding done up there from what I've heard," Mr Alexander said. 

"The bird will go where they shouldn't and possibly get attacked by dogs or smashed by cars."

Mr Alexander - who has developed a special relationship with the Habitat's cassowary, named Cassie, that allows him to pat and scratch her - said approaching a cassowary is extremely dangerous.

"You could get yourself in a lot of trouble," he said. 

"I would never use the word vicious or aggressive but they're very, very defensive and capable of defending themselves.

"The consequences could be dire."

Experts estimate there could be less than 1000 cassowaries living in the wild.

Tropical Cyclone Ita had negatively impacted cassowary habitat Mr Alexander said but hadn't been as bad as initially expected.

"It did come down through cassowary habitat and wipe out some corridors but most of the damage was just on outskirts of their habitats," he said.