About
The BirdMark portal is specially designed to accept submissions of your resightings of colour marked waders along our flyway. It supports multiple different languages, offering the possibility for volunteers and researchers to enter and submit observations both interactively or as a file.
Videos on the various ways in which you can do this are included in our Help Guides. Feedback on your observations, including a history of the birds that you have observed, will be returned to you within a couple of days of submitting your data.
With the launch of this site we hope to further boost the reporting of marked shorebirds, which is crucial for ongoing conservation and scientific research, informing on the birds’ population dynamics, movements and site use.
We would love to hear your feedback, so feel free to contact flagging@awsg.org.au if you have any suggestions or queries regarding this portal.
The BirdMark Team
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.
