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…Our team partner with landholders across the country to learn more about birds and their habitats on private rural properties, and use this information to conserve and protect woodland birds. The Birds on Farms team are looking for experienced birdwatchers to conduct regular standardised bird surveys on private properties across…Read more

…be on really close terms with your birds, try feeding them.” Around the same time, the Bird Observers’ Club Promotions Officer, Ellen McCulloch, stated that “feeding birds can be just about the most powerful public relations exercise you can make” since it encouraged people to connect emotionally with the birds…Read more

How you can help fire-affected birds How to help birds before, during and after bushfires. How to help birds before, during and after bushfires Birds are especially vulnerable to fire, so here are some ways you can help your local native birds before, during and after bushfires. Provide water Before,…Read more

…bird with a conspicuous ring of white feathers around the eye and belongs to a group of birds known as white-eyes. The Silvereye shows interesting plumage variations across its range. The grey back and olive-green head and wings are found in birds through the east, while western birds have a…Read more

…from Alaska to Tasmania in only 11 days flying at an average of more than 50km/h, losing almost half of their body weight along the way. While most birds leave Australia in April and May, to return to their breeding grounds, some birds (mostly young birds) remain all year round….Read more

Bar-tailed Godwit in the start of breeding plumage, facing and looking left

…State of Australia’s Birds, the 2020 Action Plan for Australian Birds, and the volunteer-led State of Tasmania’s Birds. Analysis of Birdata surveys has also driven the uplisting of several threatened species across Australia—the conservation statuses for birds as varied as the Australasian Bittern, Mallee Emu-wren and Australian Painted Snipe are…Read more

…habitat and priority conservation areas for the Australasian Bittern. Find out more about our Bittern Listening Surveys and register your interest here. 5. Volunteer for Birds on Farms INTERMEDIATE (SOME PRIOR KNOWLEDGE/EXPERIENCE REQUIRED) Birds on Farms volunteers conducting a bird survey in Southern NSW Our Birds on Farms team partners…Read more

10 of Australia’s most elusive birds He seeks them here, he seeks them there, Sean Dooley has sought them everywhere. Here he ponders which Australian birds are the most elusive. 10 of Australia’s most elusive birds: Australian Pimpernels He seeks them here, he seeks them there, Sean Dooley has sought…Read more

…hatch. While these attacks are quite unnerving, the birds seldom actually strike their ‘victims’, preferring a close approach to scare them away. Identification Masked Lapwings are ground-dwelling birds that are closely related to the waders. The Masked Lapwing is mainly white below, with brown wings and back and a black…Read more

…social flocks throughout the breeding season. These groups normally consist of only one breeding pair, the other birds being offspring from previous years. The young birds take four years to reach breeding maturity and stay with the parents during this time. The young birds help with nest building, incubation and…Read more

Chough facing and looking left, brown blurred background

…brush up on survey techniques and introduce newcomers to the joy of counting birds. And after the Count? That’s where Birdata comes in. Bird surveys are the foundation of bird conservation—without the data they provide, we would struggle to determine (and justify) which birds need our help, and what the…Read more

…allow rangers to better understand their local birds and monitor them. Also the Mapoon Aboriginal Shire Council from the Gulf of Carpentaria — to conduct workshops to increase knowledge about shorebirds and their management to allow Mapoon Land & Sea Rangers to monitor migratory shorebirds. And Parks Australia (Kakadu National…Read more

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Australia’s hidden history of bird feeding

How you can help fire-affected birds

Silvereye

Bar-tailed Godwit

What is Birdata?

8 ways to get involved in science and bird conservation

10 of Australia’s most elusive birds

Masked Lapwing

White-winged Chough

How to do a bird count or survey

Indigenous Grant for Bird Research and Conservation