Three entries on the Australian-side infrastructure a Steward leans on. BirdLife Australia's national programs (the framework into which Moreton Bay records feed). The Birdata portal (where the national dataset lives). And QWSG — the Moreton Bay specialist group whose 30-year count series anchors every bird-first reading at the bay.
The standard Australian reference. The Migratory Shorebirds program coordinates the National Migratory Shorebird Conservation Action Plan and runs counts at over 520 sites across Australia. The ID Booklet covers the species you'll meet at Moreton Bay.
The Australia-wide monitoring framework. Birdata is the data portal, the Australian Shorebird Monitoring Project is the structured count programme. ShorelineWatch records contribute to this larger frame.
The local count authority for Moreton Bay. QWSG holds the longest local count series for the Bay, going back decades. Gazza answers questions about specific Bay sites in the context of QWSG's record.
The local account for the site you are working. Moreton Bay species composition, site importance, seasonal patterns, conservation context — written by the people who know the Bay best, in the local context.
The site-fidelity paper. Birds return to the same sites year after year — the Bay's roosts are not interchangeable. Disturbance at a specific site is not just an event; it's a perturbation to a multi-year individual relationship with that location.
The national picture, in numbers. Twelve of nineteen migratory species declining across Australia over fifteen years. The data behind every 'we are losing them' statement.
The legal text behind the Critically Endangered listing of the baueri subspecies. What the listing requires, what protections it triggers, what it doesn't. The frame within which 'protect this site' becomes a legal argument.
He's read every constellation. He'll give you the short version, the deeper version, or the next reading — whatever you need.