For Shorebirds · ShorelineWatch

Help count the birds still here.

Moreton Bay's shorebirds are part of the East Asian–Australasian Flyway, the longest migration on the planet. Their numbers are dropping. We need more eyes at the waterline. Yours, regularly, would help.

You don't need to be a bird expert. You don't need a course. What you do need is binoculars or a scope, a stretch of bay, and a couple of minutes to learn the basics.

Gazza will give you the brief — about two minutes — then ask you a few simple questions to check we're on the same page. Pass, and the observation tool unlocks on this device for thirty days. Drop a pin where you watched, tap roughly what you saw, hit submit. That's it.

Your records flow into the same dataset that trained Stewards contribute to. Every one of them helps.

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Gazza

Larrikin · Bar-tailed Godwit · sixteen crossings

"Two minutes, mate. I'll show you the bay through my eyes — what to look for, what to watch out for. Then a few simple questions, nothing fancy, just to make sure we're seeing the same thing. Then you're away."

Already a Steward, or training to be one? Use the full Steward tool →. Different door, same bay.
Delivered in partnership with
Jacobs Well EEC
Queensland's first purpose-built field study centre · since 1975
REF Environmental
Restoration ecology & field consultancy · Moreton Bay
BIEPA
Bribie Island Environmental Protection Association · Pumicestone Passage
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