Society for the Preservation of Raptors Inc.

11/03/2023

Apologies to everyone who has been trying to email us lately.

We'll be taking steps to migrate our email and website to new hosting services over the next couple of weeks.

Thank you for your patience.

02/03/2021

URGENT:
Transport needed from Hyden to Perth (for a box containing a Wedge-tailed Eagle)
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06/05/2020

Our founder and coordinator, Phil Pain at the Eagles Heritage Margaret River Raptor Wildlife Centre is feeling the pinch. With no visitors through the gates since the COVID-19 restrictions came into play, there's no money coming in, but all the usual expenses are going out!

If you can help with a donation, please visit the Eagles Heritage GoFundMe campaign, and if you can't, please share the link and spread the word. Every little bit helps.

The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic has forced the Eagles Heritage Margaret River Raptor W… Nancy T needs your support for Eagles Heritage Raptor Wildlife Centre

01/04/2020

This is what essentials look like when you're a raptor rehabilitator. With everything shutting down to try and slow the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, income grinds to a halt, but birds still have to eat.

At present Eagles Heritage has had to close its gate, and with no AFL games, Auzzie isn't flying.

Thus far, only one Society member has a GoFundMe campaign running. We ask that you give Yvonne a helping hand if you can.

When and if other members start fundraising, we will post here.

Help Yvonne and Auzzie here:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/1xai6ujh2o

29/03/2020

Here's Polly again. You may recall that Polly was admitted to one of our South West WA member facilities on the same day it was revealed that the late, great Graham "Polly" Farmer had suffered from chronic head trauma caused by multiple concussions during his WAFL/AFL career. Thanks to the excellent care provided by our amazing vet Dr Sam Sexton, our little Polly's head injuries seem to have healed, but he also has some damage to the right wing. Polly is flying well, but he needs to regrow some feathers before he'll be able to hunt silently. Keep your talons crossed that Polly is able to continue with his recovery. At the moment he's on track for release, so we're very pleased and feeling optimistic!

05/03/2020

This is Polly. Polly is a Southern Boobook Owl. Polly doesn't much care for cameras, so no close-ups for him! Polly was handed in to GEOvet Busselton with a severe head injury, hence the name for the late, great Polly Farmer, who suffered from CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy). Polly was cared for by the wonderful and kind-hearted Dr Samantha Sexton until he was well enough to be transferred to Society member facility the Blackwood Valley Raptor Centre. This morning, Polly was declared well enough to have some time outside in the Stage 2 orchard aviary where he can stretch his wings, climb, stooge around in the fruit trees if he wants to or bathe in the shaded bird bath.

Let's hope Polly can make a full recovery and go back home to his own patch out in the wild.

08/01/2020

DON'T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU READ... Especially on some "news" sites.

A tabloid "news" site calling itself australianews-first has posted a deliberately inflammatory article about Black Kites and their natural behaviour of spreading low-intensity scrub fires. They've basically plagiarised the article and photos from other sites and posted it as their own work.

If you read this article, please be aware that the "author" has very conveniently left out the fact that the behaviour being described (picking up burning sticks and dropping them to flush more small animals out of the undergrowth) is only possible in a low-intensity scrub fire. In a crown fire, the bireds (just like everything else) cannot (and don't want to) get close enough to pick up sticks and spred flames. They're too busy fleeing for their lives like everyone else. Please don't believe everything you read. Some so-called "journalists" hate to let facts get in the way of a good stir-up.

A number of native Australian birds are making the bushfire crisis worse. The Whistling Kite, the Black Kite and the Brown Falcon are all known to use fire as a way to flush out prey from fields in Australia. The birds’ behaviour has led to the nicknames ‘arson raptors’ or ‘firehawks’ as t...

16/05/2018

SCIENCE! Set to music. This is so very clever. And awesome. :)

26/04/2018

The BBC Natural History Unit does it again with some really cool footage of a Peregrine chasing an Olympic Skier for the little lure attached to the back of the skier's helmet.

16/04/2018

Huge THANK YOU to volunteers Annette and Suzanne from F.A.W.N.A Inc. who rescued Harry the Square-Tailed Kite and got him to Dr Sam at GEOvet last August. After initial treatment and stabilisation with Dr Sam, Harry was transferred to the Blackwood Valley Raptor Centre where he underwent care and rehabilitation. Last week he passed his final pre-release assessment and on Sunday he was taken back to where he was found and released.

Like most raptors, Square-Tailed Kites mate for life, and the courting season will start May/June, so Harry is home in time to win back his girl and make more Square-Tailed Kites this breeding season!

I can just see it... "Honey, I was abducted by aliens, and they PROBED me!"

08/04/2018

We had a small but fairly well engaged group at the Basic Course in Wildlife Rehabilitation this weekend just gone. Anyone interested in becoming a raptor rehabilitator in WA can visit our website at www.raptor.org.au to find out the benefits of membership and download a form.

The Society for the Preservation of Raptors is a volunteer organisation made up of wildlife rehabilitators and people who care about wildlife and the environment

09/02/2018

Ants can be some of the most difficult insect pests to control. Here at last is some info on pesticide-free ways of managing ants.

Ants in the house can really bug the best of us, so here's some natural ways to keep them at bay.