Bill Fulton recalls counting 1162 dead birds during a four-and-a-half kilometre morning beach walk.

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That's a rough average of one every four metres.

But when he tells people about the work and its confronting reality, they're curiously inclined to dismiss it as kind of normal.

"We want people to know that this is different," Mr Fulton tells AAP.

"This is on a mega scale and it's threatening the survival of the species."

Thousands of seabirds washed up on Australia's shoreline during the summer of 2023/24.

Theories differed about what trigge

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