Birds Australia and the Australian Museum are pleased to announce the launch today of the Birds in Backyards website www.birdsinbackyards.net
The site is designed to link old and new bird lovers alike into the magic of Australian birds. An initiative of the Sydney-based Birds in Backyards program, the site is focused on urban birds, habitats and conservation issues and is relevant for the 85% of Australians who live in urban areas. Special Features include:
· Bird Finder – name that bird! The Birds in Backyards Bird Finder, is the first comprehensive tool to help you name that elusive bird on-line. It allows users to enter the size, shape and colour of a bird. This prompts identification of your bird, from an initial database of 150 species found in Sydney and other Australian east coast cities, with work underway on the final target of 800. You can also listen to the calls of 120 species
· On line Volunteer Bird Surveys Who will hear the first Koel of Spring?Where are all the Superb Fairy-wrens?
There is also extensive information about habitat, gardening for birds and some historical data on birds of Sydney.
