BUSY EASTER WEEKEND

BUSY EASTER WEEKEND

Over the Easter long weekend, our incredible volunteers responded to 89 calls and attended to the below list of birds in need: • 1 giant petrel • 3 darters • 2 pelicans • 1 oystercatcher • 1 fairy wren • 5 cormorants • 2 swans • 6 silver gulls • 1 coot • 2 galahs • 1...
WASR QUIZ NIGHT

WASR QUIZ NIGHT

Join us for a beak-to-beak battle of wits at the WA Seabird Rescue Charity Quiz Night! Gather your flock, test your trivia talents, and help support the incredible work rescuing and rehabilitating Western Australia’s seabirds, from pelicans to penguins and every gull...
Parrot handling workshop

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...
Principles for Recreational Fishing

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...
So many entanglements!

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...
It’s duckling season

It’s duckling season

Duckling season is well and truly upon us! So far this month, we’ve … Rescued a Pacific black duck mum and her 8 ducklings after they had fallen down a stormwater drain and relocated them to nearby Lake Gwelup Relocated 12 little shelduck ducklings and their parents...