How to Get Involved

Surveys: Monitoring birds that live in your garden or area and providing the results to scientists who use it to determine the conservation issues and to develop ways of correcting them
Bird Finder: Identifying and finding out about specific species
Creating Places: Guidelines to create places for birds to live; what birds need and how to make them

monitor the birds in their garden, local area or any special place they wish to
learn about birds
develop their gardens, backyards or local open spaces to accommodate birds
Talk to or work with their local councils, schools or developers and encourage them to become involved at a landscape level
Start a Birds in Backyards Local Group

Encourage others in the area to also become involved and help to expand habitat for birds
Adapt Birds in Backyards by becoming a Birds in Backyards Local Group and design and run their own projects with the support of Birds in Backyards
Have their own Birds in Backyards website home page and specifically focused survey
Create opportunities for like-minded people to work together
...and much more.

Develop local Birds in Backyards Local Groups that can work with them in ensuring that local native plants and animals are provided for throughout their area by
- utilising both private (gardens, backyards, domestic areas) and public areas (remnant bushland, parks, open spaces) to develop safe havens for birds
- developing wildlife corridors between remnant bush lands
Use the Birds in Backyards resources to help with local education about birds and biodiversity
Disseminate the Birds in Backyards information internally to inform planners, engineers and others working in local government how to allow for birds and biodiversity in new and old developments
Have their own Birds in Backyards website home page and specifically focused surveys
Birds in Backyards A4 posters of local birds can be developed for their area

Register to use ‘Answering the Call’ the BirdLife Australia school curriculum sustainability program that uses the Birds in Backyards website and resource
Develop parts of their playgrounds into habitat for birds
Use surveys to teach about biodiversity monitoring within scientific studies
Access the Birds in Backyards resources such as the A4 ID posters to help support activities
Have their own Birds in Backyards website home page to show what great activities they have been doing and to inspire others

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