BirdLife Australia, Birdata

Birdata is BirdLife Australia?s online national bird monitoring platform. Compiled from the combined efforts of professional researchers and citizen scientists, Birdata is Australia?s longest running digital database for bird sightings. It tells us where our birds are living, and how their populations are changing over time. It contains nationwide expert and citizen science surveys, as well as targeted threatened species surveys critical to BirdLife's conservation programs.

The information held in Birdata is also used more widely for publications, legislation and academic research throughout Australia. Each time a Birdata survey is submitted, it is added into our database and directly contributes not only to BirdLife Australia?s on-the-ground conservation work, but to broader conservation planning and land management.?Birdata records are shared every week with community groups, corporations, universities and government bodies to inform decision making and research, to give Australia?s birds the best possible future!

Australia?s largest and longest-running wildlife database, Birdata?s impact on conservation in our country is hard to over-estimate. Even more importantly, with thousands of citizen scientists contributing to it every year, it is a live and growing dataset. We achieve this because Birdata is not just a database, but also, a simple and fun survey tool for citizen scientists, targeted at collecting the data we need to save our most threatened species and keep all of Australia alive with our beautiful common birds. In practice, this means Birdata has been used to:

- Elevate the conservation status of the Plains-wanderer, Australasian Bittern, Eastern Curlew and Australian Painted Snipe (among other species) in recent years.
- Inform the comprehensive Action Plan for Australia?s Birds.
- Inform the declaration of over 300 Key Biodiversity Areas.
- Direct private and government protected area networks.
- Sound the alarm bell for declining species like the Mallee Striated Grasswren.
- Influence local fire management.
- Inform government and NGO conservation actions.

The Atlas of Living Australia holds non?Restricted Access species data and a subset of Restricted Access species data from Birdata. To obtain extracts that include restricted species, please contact BirdLife Australia directly. As BirdLife data is provided under a non?commercial licence, consultants must also liaise with BirdLife to arrange access to full?resolution records for any commercial use.

You can submit information to this important environmental database by conducting a survey in the Birdata app or on our website: https://birdata.birdlife.org.au/