Marine Wildlife Sighting and Response Numbers

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It is often difficult to know what organization to call if you sight a live animal swimming offshore or a distressed animal that has stranded on a beach. 

Below is a list of numbers that we hope you will find helpful. 

Marine Animal Entanglement Response

  • Overseeing organization - Center for Coastal Studies (CCS)
  • Focus: to report sightings of live or dead entangled marine animals
  • Rescue Hotline Number: 800-900-3622


Sea Turtle Sighting Hotline for Southern New England
  • Overseeing organization - Mass Audubon at Wellfleet Bay
  • Focus: to report live or dead sightings of sea turtle in the waters of southcoast MA
  • Hotline Number: 1-800-888-Sea-Turt (1-888-732-8878)


Cold-stunned Sea Turtle Sightings  
  • Overseeing organization - Mass Audubon at Wellfleet Bay
  • Focus: to report sightings of live or dead stranded, cold-stunned sea turtles
  • Rescue Hotline Number: 508-349-2615 x 2104


Ocean Sunfish and Basking Shark Sightings 
  • Overseeing organization - New England Coastal Wildlife Alliance (NECWA)
  • Focus: to report offshore sightings of live or dead ocean sunfish and basking sharks
  • Hotline Number: 508-566-0009


Ocean Sunfish Strandings
  • Overseeing organization - New England Coastal Wildlife Alliance (NECWA)
  • Focus: to report live or dead sightings of stranded ocean sunfish along the shores of New England
  • Rescue Hotline Number: 508-566-0009


Atlantic Torpedo Ray Sightings
  • Overseeing organization - New England Coastal Wildlife Alliance (NECWA)
  • Focus: to report live or dead sightings of stranded torpedo rays  along the shores of New England
  • Rescue Hotline Number: 508-566-0009


Stranded Marine Mammals 
  • Overseeing organization - International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) 
  • Focus: to report sightings of live or dead stranded marine animals on the shores of Cape Cod
  • Rescue Hotline Number: 508-743-9548
  • Also National Marine Life Center in Bourne at 508-743-9888


North Atlantic Right Whales
  • Overseeing organization - National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
  • Focus: to report sightings of live or dead right whales offshore
  • Hotline Number: 866-755-6622 or USCG VHF radio Channel 16


Bird and Small Animal Rescue and Rehabilitation
  • Overseeing organization: WildCare
  • Focus: to report an injured bird or other small animal (terrestrial or marine)
  • Rescue Hotline: 508-240-2255
  • Website: https://www.wildcarecapecod.org


Wildlife Veterinary and Rehabilitation

  • Overseeing organization: Cape Wildlife Center
  • Focus: To care for sick, injured or orphaned wildlife on Cape Cod
  • Hotline Number: 508-362-0111  
  • After hours number (emergence only): 617-835-68454
  • Website: https://capewildlifecenter.com

  • Overseeing organization: New England Wildlife Center
  • Focus: to rehabilitate wildlife of New England
  • Hotline Number: 781.682.4878 (please call ahead)
  • Website: https://www.newildlife.org

  • Overseeing organization: Tufts Cummings Veterinary Medical Center
  • Focus: veterinary care and rehabilitation of injured wildlife of New England
  • Hotline Number: 508-839-7918 (call ahead)
  • Website: https://wildlife.tufts.edu

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