A bay-wide reference map for stewards, observers, and people who care about shorebirds. Quandamooka Country.
A reference, not ground truth
The 179 sites here are drawn from publicly available sources: the City of Moreton Bay Datahub's published roost mapping (the spatial backbone, 90 sites), the Queensland Wader Study Group, BIEPA, Healthy Land & Water, and Moreton Bay Marine Park designations. Placement is precise where official records allow, approximate elsewhere. The map may not reflect what is on the ground at any given site today.
With public and Steward involvement we intend to add many Pixels to the Picture.
If you know a site, see something that needs correcting, or have observations to contribute — tell us →
Made possible by Leaflet
This map runs on Leaflet, the open-source mapping library created in 2011 by Volodymyr Agafonkin — a Ukrainian developer from Kyiv. Volodymyr continues to build and maintain Leaflet from his home city under wartime conditions, and his work powers an enormous share of the interactive maps on the web — including the one you're using now.
A debt of thanks, from one shorebird steward in Quandamooka to a mapmaker in Kyiv. Слава Україні.
Steward-tier site Accessible; requires interpretation
Sensitive / restricted No general access
Documentation pending Unnamed in source, or locally observed — dashed outline
Colour encodes access tier · outline encodes documentation status. Sites without names (the 62 unnamed CoMB roost polygons) sit alongside named sites at their authoritative polygon centroids.
Time — climate stepper
Sea level rise projections from City of Moreton Bay Living Coast Plan and Redland CHAS. Coastal change accelerates after 2050.
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Show CoMB roost polygon outlines
Polygon outlines come from the City of Moreton Bay shorebird-roost layer: 28 named roosts (solid outline) and 62 unnamed polygons (dashed outline). Zoom in past 13 to see the polygon detail. Click any polygon for source info.
Northern Bay (CoMB) detail. 40 named Northern Bay sites + 62 unnamed CoMB polygons, with polygon outlines on by default. ← Back to bay-wide map
Sources & attribution
Sites drawn from Queensland Wader Study Group, Healthy Land & Water, Moreton Bay Marine Park, and Steward observations. Sea level rise projections from City of Moreton Bay Living Coast Plan and Redland Coastal Hazard Adaptation Strategy.
Coordinates are approximate where exact published positions were not available. Inundation polygons are illustrative pending QCoast2100 data refinement. Basemap: OpenStreetMap contributors.