37 migratory shorebird species occur regularly along coastal Australia, with many protected in Ramsar sites. This project analyzed 30 years of shorebird monitoring data curated by BirdLife Australia's National Shorebird Monitoring Program to update national trend estimates for 15 species under conservation reassessment. The work was conducted by the NESP Marine and Coastal Hub in 2021-2022 to inform the National Migratory Shorebird Conservation Action Plan.
Use Cases
- Update conservation priority assessments based on updated national trend estimates for 15 migratory shorebird species.
- Analyze the relative effects of human pressure and conservation efforts on population trends using 30 years of monitoring data.
- Inform resource allocation for shorebird recovery programs based on the most current trend data.
- Support the reassessment of conservation status for migratory shorebirds by the Australian Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water.
Strengths
- Analyzes 30 years of shorebird monitoring data, providing a long-term perspective.
- Focuses on 15 migratory shorebird species whose conservation status is actively being reassessed.
- Updates national trend estimates that were previously nearly 10 years old.
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network via data_gov_au.
- Collection Method
- Analysis of citizen science monitoring data curated by BirdLife Australia's National Shorebird Monitoring Program.
- Time Range
- 30 years of historical data, analyzed for the 2021-2022 project.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-17 01:37:46.743821; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Coastal Australia.