LATEST NEWS & EVENTS
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
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
Botulism in Lake Jualbup
Avian botulism was detected in Shenton Park's Lake Jualbup in January 2024 but recent rain – after seven months of drought – disturbed sediment and caused an outbreak. On May 2nd, our volunteers ended up rescuing 23 ducks (Pacific black ducks, grey teals, pink-eared...
Mandurah Walk & Talk
Thanks Barbara, Danny, Jo and Lee who presented at our Walk and Talk at Samphire Cove on Sunday 28th April. Walk and Talkers were entertained and educated by your stories of how WASR was founded in Mandurah in 2003 by local legends Linda Emery, Marg Larner, Allison...
A busy start to 2024
We have been busy, busy, busy! Botulism outbreaks, entanglements, displaced juveniles, families on the move as their wetlands dry up, fractures, penguins in moult and a magpie stuck in roof racks! Please visit our Facebook page for more images and details:...
Entangled Swan Rescue
Watch one of our wonderful volunteers rescue a black swan entangled in hook and line! Thanks, Jo! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ljbm-6PEuc When she's not rescuing birds, Jo is taking amazing photos of them! Visit her flickr page below to view a sample of her work!...