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Snuggle up and survey!

Submitted by Holly on 31 May 2021.

Feel the crisp winter air and join your birds outside for a winter bird survey (or stay indoors with a nice hot cuppa and watch them through the window...)

20 mins and some information about your garden helps to understand our local birds and gives us invaluable insight into their daily lives.

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It's time to have a #CuppawiththeBirds

Submitted by Holly on 09 Apr 2020.

While spending most of our time at home can be frustrating, it also gives us a great opportunity to be #BirdingAtHome.

We want you to take just 10 mins for yourself whenever you can. Get away from the TV and the news, make a cuppa and do a 10 min bird count at home. Share your list of birds using the tag #CuppawiththeBirds.

Keep your kids chirpy at home with these activities!

Submitted by Holly on 26 Mar 2020.

Hello parents, carers and kids! Are you looking for at-home activities to keep everyone chirpy? Here at BirdLife we have lots of resources that are fun AND you can learn about amazing birds and places

Bird books, time together forges special bond between Padthaway father and son

Submitted by Chickowee on 21 Jun 2021.

Archer Leddy will tell you his first memory of birding was when he was barely a 1-year-old.

"When I was a baby, [I was] looking through my binoculars out by the front gate, looking for birds," Archer says.

Your Winter Gardening Must Do's

Submitted by Holly on 31 May 2021.

With the days getting shorter and oh, so much colder, it’s a great time to get prepared for spring.

Winter in the southern states of Australia can be bitterly cold, grey and puts most of us into a semi hibernation. However, we also experience beautiful, clear, crisp and sunny days, which are perfect to get our bodies moving and venture outside.

Autumn survey results - what did you see?

Submitted by Holly on 31 May 2021.

A big thank you to the 398 of you who completed just under 1400 Birds in Backyards surveys this Autumn. We had 58278 birds recorded (297 species) across all the major urban centres of Australia (see the map below).

Birds in Schools, BirdLife’s free online education program, is supporting teachers across Australia to deliver education and conservation action for birds

Submitted by Holly on 21 May 2021.

The events of 2020 saw Birds in Schools, like many programs, move online. Birds in Backyards launched our e-learning platform, with lessons and materials beautifully redesigned and adapted for the online platform in the last term of the year.

Mouse plague poisoning could lead to tragic death of native wildlife

Submitted by Holly on 21 May 2021.

The New South Wales Government has requested an emergency permit to roll out huge quantities of bromadiolone in agricultural areas to combat the current mouse plague. Such a roll out will have disasterous consquences for our native birds and other wildlife.

Only the lonely: an endangered bird is forgetting its song as the species dies out

Submitted by Chickowee on 17 Mar 2021.

Just as humans learn languages, animals learn behaviours crucial for survival and reproduction from older, experienced individuals of the same species. In this way, important “cultures” such as bird songs are passed from one generation to the next.

Come and learn about owls - it will be a hoot!

Submitted by Holly on 08 Mar 2021.

The Powerful Owl is Australia’s biggest owl, and one of our biggest nocturnal predators. Powerful Owls may be able to kill a possum in a single squeeze, but they can’t compete with the rapid clearing of their habitat. Our urban spaces may be the saving grace for Powerful Owls. They can survive within cities and, in some cases, even breed in suburban backyards.