0202411010437

Community data on beach-washed seabirds in Australia Description: Beach-washed birds have been documented through dedicated coastal monitoring programs in numerous countries around the world. At present, Australia does not have one of these programs, and as such, some of the only data on beached birds has been collected by community (citizen) scientists. Data uploaded to existing community-science portals, such as iNaturalist, are incomplete as they were not designed for this purpose. Thus, in 2023, the Adrift Lab (www.adriftlab.org) launched a beach-washed seabird program.
STARDIT ID: 0202411010437

Dates

State ongoing
Start 2023-09-01
Form updated 2024-11-01

Report authors

Jennifer Lavers (link)
0000-0001-7596-6588

Jack Nunn (link)
0000-0003-0316-3254
Checked report as part of project 'Improving Citizen Science to Benefit Society: A Discussion Paper' -https://stardit.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/0202407220511

Location

Australia

URL

https://adriftlab.org/news/reporting-seabird-mortalities-to-adrift-lab/

Aims

Create opportunity and a safe space for community (citizen) scientists to generate and submit robust data on the birds they observe on beaches

Provide real-time feedback to community scientists to enhance the user experience, and undertake quality control checks on the data being submitted

Generate the first, dedicated beached-bird data for Australia

Investigate the causes and consequences of mass mortality (wreck) events involving Australian seabirds

Keywords

Seabird

Beached bird survey

Australia

Community science

Citizen science

Mass mortality

Wreck event

Category

research

Inputs

organisation

Living Ocean (link)

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Method: Data curation
Barriers: All roles are currently unpaid
Compensation: other(co-authorship on scientific article(s))
Declared interests: Marine science, marine conservation

Outputs and impacts

publication/report/document

Stage: Submitted for publication

Scientific research (peer-reviewed) article

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