A mother kangaroo that survived being shot through the head with an arrow has been captured and treated after evading rescue teams for four days.

The kangaroo was captured by RSPCA and Australia Zoo staff near Toorbul, north of Brisbane, on Tuesday morning, and taken to the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital on the Sunshine Coast for treatment.

The young, fully grown female, who also carrying a joey in infancy, had the arrow successfully removed from her head.

"The arrow came extremely close to the kangaroo's skull and brain," an Australia Zoo statement said.

"It actually grazed the skull and came millimetres from her eye socket and optical nerves."

Ultimately, the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital aims to release the kangaroo and her joey back into the wild.

"This is especially important for wild, adult kangaroos as they do not fare well in care, often risking a common condition called 'myopathy' which is induced by stress," the zoo's statement said.

"The successful surgery and fast release back to the bush is the best-case scenario for this kangaroo and joey who will hopefully rejoin their mob soon."

RSPCA Queensland spokesman Michael Beatty urged anyone with information on the case to contact it on 1300 852 188.

"Obviously we'd like to find out who did it," he said.

"There's too many of these things go on. How this kangaroo survived this is extraordinary."

Mr Beatty said in most cases animals shot with arrows either died a slow death or lived long enough to be rescued but ultimately had to be euthanased.

"That was the amazing thing, it [the kangaroo] was still very agile and the arrow missed its brain and its eye by millimetres ... it was very lucky," he said.