Monthly winners of the prints will be contact directly and have their name and images posted on Glenelg Hopkin CMA social media and online on this website. 2022 photography competition winner: Sarah Campbell A monthly prize is awarded to an original Sanderling photo with a readable leg-flag or best flock photo (in-flight or roosting). Photos and sightings sent to go into the running to win a framed print of the Jimmi Buscombe original artwork, Sanderling on plantation Teak. Our photography competition is back for the Summer of 2022-2023! The Sanderling have begun their journey back to our beaches with the first spottings on Australian shores in October 2022. SNAP A PHOTO OF A SANDERLING THIS SUMMER AND WIN!
CMA TRACKING HOW TO
The birds will leave our shore in early May, so if you’re trying to get the last of the sun at the beach, it would be fabulous if you would assist with our program research.ĭetails of how to download the app are here: COLLECTING DATA WITH ECOTOPIA APP
CMA TRACKING BLUETOOTH
In the summer of 2022/2023 we are keen to know these birds have returned, and to do that, people on the beach can download an app, turn their bluetooth on, and the trackers will ‘ping’ the tracker. The electronic trackers are small, lightweight, transmitters (weighing less than 5g) and are fitted under strict animal ethics guidelines. In previous summers visiting our shores, electronic trackers were fitted to 10 sanderling, and we’d love to know if you get a ‘ping’ to know where these birds are. Once your image information is uploaded, you will receive feedback as to where that bird you spotted and took a photo of, was last seen and where – sometimes the other side of the world!Īlternatively, images can be sent to and a member of the team will input the data to Birdmark on your behalf. Images of the birds and details of the leg flag tags can be uploaded to the Birdmark website which tracks movements of water birds around the globe. In particular, taking good, clear images of the leg flag tags which identify birds. Members of the community are encouraged to be part of the project by taking photos of Sanderling as they arrive at the beaches. Funding for this community research partnership is provided by the Victorian Government’s Community Volunteering Action Fund. Initiated through the Glenelg Estuary and Discovery Bay Ramsar Coordination Committee, the project is managed by South-west Environment Alliance with support from Friends of Shorebirds SE, Deakin University, Victorian Wader Study Group, Birdlife Australia and the Glenelg Hopkins CMA.
The Sanderling Tracking Project is a coordinated effort of community groups, researchers and land managers. In doing so, the project seeks to define roosting and foraging habitat characteristics for Sanderling at Discovery Bay, which, once complete, will allow the better prioritisation of resources to safeguard critical habitat. This project aims to fill this knowledge gap by estimating the space use and time and energy budgets of foraging and roosting Sanderlings using Discovery Bay, (Vic/SA) as the overwintering period progresses. Participants at a shorebird expert and land manager workshop held in Warrnambool in June 2019 agreed that the limited knowledge on roosting and foraging behaviours of Sanderling at Discovery Bay is a barrier to effective species conservation. While in Australia, Sanderling are confined to high energy ocean beaches and their diet consists of a diverse array of invertebrate taxa.
The EAAF population migrates to Australia and New Zealand to spend the Austral summer and numbers approximately 30,000 individuals. Sanderling are a small <100g northern hemisphere migratory shorebird that breed in the high Arctic north of 63⁰ latitude. The putative reasons for dramatic population declines across the EAAF are diverse and include: land reclamation / coastal development (both overseas and in Australia), climate change, invasive species and human disturbance. Shorebirds the world over are in decline, and migratory species using the East Asian-Australasian Flyway (EAAF) including the Sanderling ( Calidris alba) are of foremost conservation concern.
This project is a community-initiated project to identify the habits of the Sanderling birds who arrive on the southern shores of Australia each Summer and focusses on the Discovery Bay area of south-west Victoria, and the beaches of south-east South Australia.
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