Eastern Australian Waterbird Survey (EAWS)

Waterbird data for the Basin Plan Evaluation 2020

Created 17/11/2020

Updated 13/11/2024

Overview

The Eastern Australia Waterbird Survey, run by the Centre of Ecosystem Science at the University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) since 1983, by Richard Kingsford and his team. This survey covers the Eastern part of the Australian continent, flying a plane across transects of this region. The relevant attributions are made below.

This survey is a large-scale, long-term survey method to measure the abundance and diversity of waterbirds across this large region, as well as providing information about the health of wetlands and rivers.

This information supports the evaluation of the effectiveness of the Basin Plan, under Schedule 7, for waterbird related targets identified.

Attribution

UNSW website link and UNSW Database link

Source

This data file or API can be downloaded from:

https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/b50e3aed-e8ae-42eb-ae74-588ddcd4a75a/resource/e7dc2840-ebab-47e3-a50b-489a549a79de/download/eaws_1983-2019-with_in_the_basin.xlsx