From now until 30 June, every dollar you donate to WA Seabird Rescue will be matched up to $5,000 thanks to a generous supporter. That’s double the help for our seabirds! With up to 2,000 rescues a year, we rely on donations to respond with the right equipment and support
NEWS & EVENTS
LATEST NEWS & EVENTS
Temporary Rescue Hotline Number
Please call (08) 6117 9216 if you can’t get thru on our primary number. Due to Skype shutting down, we’re in the process of moving our rescue hotline to a new provider. As we transition, our main number may be temporarily unavailable 🙁
Parrot handling workshop
Over the weekend, 10 of our rescue volunteers completed a parrot handling workshop at WA Wildlife. We are receiving more calls to our hotline with requests to rescue parrots and bird species other than seabirds/waterbirds. Our induction training doesn’t cover this and we need to keep our volunteers safe. We
Principles for Recreational Fishing
With the large number of entanglements we always see over summer, we’re starting a ‘Principles for Recreational Fishing’ series of posts. Cormorants, darters, silver gulls and pelicans are the usual entangled patients, but we are also seeing more ducks and swans with entanglements, too. The images will share examples of
So many entanglements!
Here’s just a sample of the entanglements our volunteers have seen already this year – just one month into 2025! 🙁 We rescued a female darter who had cotton and fishing line wrapped around her beak, which was loosely attaching her head to fishing hooks in her neck and wing.