Are you a bushwalker in south-eastern Australia? Contribute to conservation by recording sightings of Hooded Plovers and Eastern Ground Parrots. BirdLife Australia’s Beach-nesting Birds Program is training and encouraging bushwalkers to record incidental sightings of Hooded Plovers and Eastern Ground Parrots along remote stretches of the Victorian coastline. Coastal birds – accessible vs remote areas Australia’s coastline is home to some of the most threatened groups of birds in the country. Coastal birds face a wide range of threats, from human disturbance on beaches to habitat loss and f ..read more

This page is a temporary home for the Working List, as we work to bring information across from the old website. In the meantime, you can access the Working List of Australian Birds (Version 4) by clicking the button below. Birdata is currently operating with Version 2 of the Working List of Australian Birds. The full taxonomy will be updated in our systems in 2023, to ensure that Birdata matches our official species list. You can direct any queries or feedback to birdata@birdlife.org.au and taxonomy@birdlife.org.au. Explanatory notes, along with the detailed content about BirdLife Au ..read more

Birdata is Australia’s largest bird monitoring platform, comprising over 22 million individual species records from every state and territory. This huge data repository is the result of tireless efforts from regular people across the country – your birding counts! Contributors range from BirdLife Australia volunteers to schools, scientists, local conservation groups and Indigenous corporations. The structured nature of Birdata surveys means that these data are suitable for in-depth scientific analysis, particularly when people have surveyed the same location over many years. BirdLife Aust ..read more

What birds might you see in the month of January? Here’s a few to keep a look out for… ... The post Birds to look out for this month first appeared on Birdata ..read more

The Quiet Extinction While much recent attention has focused on the plight of the Mallee Emu-wren, it turns out that the bird that it shares similar habitat with—the Mallee Striated Grasswren—may also be facing an extinction crisis. Sean Dooley reports on recent revelations showing that this quiet, shy bird is in danger of being forever silenced. Overshadowed In recent years, Australian Birdlife has brought you the saga of the desperate efforts to pull the Mallee Emu-wren back from the edge of extinction—how the South Australian population of this avian featherweight was completely wiped out ..read more

Welcome to the new-look Birdata homepage! Just like the birds, Birdata has moulted into some bright new plumage. But not only does our homepage now look different, we’ve added some new information and user-friendly functions too. You can still access the familiar Birdata functions via the tabs at the top of the page, so hopefully things shouldn’t be too difficult to find. Here’s the highlights, from the top of the page down: Big,  clickable buttons to get you straight into submitting new records, viewing your older sightings or exploring the entire database.   A suit ..read more

FIRST ENCOUNTERS BY PAULA PEETERS Plains-wanderer  Five years ago, I was asked to create a colouring book about the Plains-wanderer and its riverina grassland habitat. So in the high summer of 2015, off I went to NSW’s Hay Plain in search of this strange bird.   In the morning, I walked across low sandhills between Black Box trees. They spread their arms wide, dead claws arching over and reaching down. A Crested Pigeon whoo-ed, and Red-rumped Parrots made high-pitched squiggles with their voices. Noisy Miners argued about something. Choughs flew about in conspiring groups like ..read more

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing! The post Hello world! first appeared on Birdata ..read more