BirdLife WA - Useful Resources

Welcome to BirdLife Western Australia’s Useful Resources!
Here you’ll find apps and guides to help you identify, count and protect them.

Birdata
Birdata is BirdLife Australia’s online national bird monitoring platform and app. It is Australia’s longest running digital database for bird sightings with more than 30 million records (and counting). It incorporates BirdLife Australia nationwide surveys: Birds in Backyards, Birds on Farms and Aussie Bird Count.
Click here to get started on Birdata and download the Birdata app.

BirdLife WA Guide to Citizen Advocacy
All native vegetation is habitat for birds. When it goes, so does WA’s birdlife. Developed for Western Australia, this guide outlines the ways you can participate in the native habitat clearing assessment processes and help influence decisions. This guide is tailored towards decisions made at the state and federal level.
Download the Guide here.

BirdLife WA Local Bird Guides
Get to know the names and characteristics of your local bird life by downloading one of our illustrated bird guides. Specially developed for local areas, these guides add a new dimension to your local river, wetland or nature reserve.
Check out the different bird guides here.

Important digital links:

International
– BirdMark

BirdLife Australia
– Website
– Avian Influenza (bird flu)
– Aussie Bird Count
– Facebook Page
– Act for Birds
– Birds in Backyards / BIBY TV (YouTube)
– Migratory Shorebird Directory
– Australian Shorebird Monitoring
– Beach-nesting Birds Hub
– Beach-nesting Birds Newsletters: Word About the Hood
– Birds on Farms
– Birds in Schools
– Library Catalogue
– HANZAB online

Birdata
– Website
– Basics & Beyond online course

BirdLife WA
– Website
– LinkedIn Page
– Facebook Page
– Wheatbelt Bird Surveys Facebook and Google Drive
– Events (on website)
– Events (on Facebook)
– Birds on Farms (on Facebook) and WA flyer
– Western Australian Shorebird Monitoring (on Facebook)
– WA Bird Notes (pdfs since 2000 here, to sign up here)
– CockyWatch
– Cocky Notes
– Bird Guides
– Guide to Citizen Advocacy
– GWW Newsletters ‘Woodlands on the Wing’ / GWW email
– Spotlight on Volunteers
– Volunteer Opportunities

Regional Groups (with online presence)
– Albany (website / Newsletters / Facebook)
– Bunbury (Newsletters / Facebook public / Facebook members)
– Cape to Cape / Margaret River (Newsletters)
– Midwest-Geraldton (Facebook / Newsletters)
– Peel / Mandurah Bird Observers Group (website)
– Wheatbelt Avon (Facebook / Newsletters)

Observatories
– Broome Bird Observatory (BirdLife website / website / Facebook / brochure)
– Eyre Bird Observatory (website / Facebook / Newsletters)

Wildlife Resue
– Wildcare Helpline
– Western Australian Seabird Rescue
– Kanyana Wildlife: Wildlife rescue in Perth and surrounds (link to flyer here)
– Kanyana Wildlife: Make a wildlife rescue kit (link to flyer here)
– Busselton and South West – Swan and Cygnet Rescue Hotline (link to flyer here)