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.

Between the 1970s to early 2000s two major volunteer events – the Australian “Atlas” projects – collected huge amounts of information about Australian birds. More than 10,000 dedicated Aussie birders completed almost 370,000 bird surveys in all corners of the country, recording nearly 7.5 million bird sightings on paper forms that were mailed to the project’s headquarters. Today, there are over 200,000 surveys submitted to Birdata each year.

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 also shared with community groups, corporations, universities and government bodies to inform decision making and research, to give Australia’s birds the best possible future!

You can make your birding count by submitting your data to Birdata!