The BirdMark portal is specially designed to accept submissions of your resightings of colour marked shorebirds (waders and terns) in Australia and along the East-Asian Australasian flyway.
The portal supports multiple languages, offering the possibility for volunteers and researchers to submit observations both interactively or as a file.
Your observations are crucial for ongoing conservation and scientific research, informing on the birds’ population dynamics, movements and site use.Contribute to the Conservation of Shorebirds
BirdMark provides a range of features in our effort to gather much-needed shorebird observations for research.
Leg Flag Importing
Submit your observation of shorebird leg flags to the BirdMark database.
Shorebirds have been tagged (with leg flags) for over 50 years, enabling long-term study of their health and behaviours across generations and geographic locations.
Data and Photo Overviews
Visit the Data and Photo Overview link to learn more.
Submitted observations are stored in the BirdMark database. We've generated galleries and reports to demonstrate what we have learned from our data, and invite you to explore them too.
Vetting (coming soon!)
Use your expertise to help us vet submissions in order to improve the accuracy of our BirdMark database.
Our legion of researchers and volunteers submit large volumes of images that capture shorebirds with a leg flag. Sometimes, the imaged shorebird's species or leg flag is unclear.
Help Guides
Visit the Help Guides link for more information.
We've created video tutorials and collated online resources to help inform of the methodologies behind leg flags and shorebird tagging, and how you can contribute your own observations to BirdMark.
BirdMark at a Glance
Behind the scenes of the BirdMark platform and how we are able to support world-leading research.
Total Resightings
668727
Oldest Resighting
02/09/1981
Contributors
7110
Species Observed
76
Most Observed
Great Knot
Unique Locations (10km)
3757
Submitted Images from our Contributors
Incredible photographs taken by our contributers. Captured are shorebirds with a visible Leg Flag, used to identify an individual and their geolocation.
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Double banded plover RAOF,YF banded in South Australia by FoSSE (Friends of Shorebirds South-East.
Who are we at BirdMark
BirdMark was initiated by the Australasian Wader Studies Group (AWSG), Victorian Wader Study Group (VWSG) and Deakin University, and born out of the need to bring together the banding data on shorebirds collected by a legion of volunteers and researchers. While initially focussing on shorebirds banded in Australia, BirdMark assists research and conservation of shorebirds along the entire East-Asian Australasian Flyway (EAAF), collating observations across 37 countries including Australia, New Zealand, China, South Korea, and more.
