Beach-nesting Birds

Australian bird of the year 2025: vote for your favourite #birdoftheyear in the Guardian / BirdLife Australia poll From little penguins to (very big) cassowaries, every bird has its fans. Vote for your favourite in the 2025 Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll

Calling all #seabirders! Australian Bird of the Year is back and we NEED you to give Australian Fairy Terns some love! it's not looking so good for this tiny seabird in the polls (so far!) or in the environment, so please vote for them! @worldseabirdunion.bsky.social shorturl.at/OCA21

Here in NSW we only have about 70 Hooded Plovers remaining.
Many of our beaches have been badly eroded this year and our hoodie breeding season has started slowly. (photo from my archives :) #shorebirds #birds #WildOz

Thanks for joining us for #PloverAppreciationDay! Please continue to be the voice for these vulnerable birds, not just today but every day. Hoodies are now breeding, so give them space, follow the signs and keep your dog on the leash when you visit hoodie beaches!

What a way to celebrate 10 years of #PloverappreciationDay ! Please join us in celebrating the winners of our student art competition! #PAD2025

Years 4/5 students from Margaret River have submitted Hooded Plover sculptures made from plaster, wood and acrylic paint. Each little Hoodie has their own leg flag with the students’ initials! And Year 4s from Currambine Primary School took inspiration from Australian Artist Pete Cromer! #PAD2025

Did you know that there is a Hoodie Play Pod at Point Turton on the Yorke Peninsula with tiles made by volunteers and local school students? We partnered up with Karen Carr from Squashed Cocky who helped create this outdoor boardgame for everyone to enjoy! #PAD2025 #PloverAppreciationDay

Check out Coral-Mae's (age 9) felt plover, inspired by the Pacific Golden Plover. This submission comes all the way from The Crags, South Africa! Golden Plover chicks are born in the arctic tundra amongst the thawing ice and thriving plant life looking like moss puffs. #PAD2025

Art murals and sculptures play such a powerful role in communicating local conservation issues – especially when placed in coastal towns with high numbers of visitors! Unlike the secretive and well-camouflaged Hoodie nests and chicks, you really can't miss these striking artworks. #PAD2025

Today is the big day - Happy #PloverAppreciationDay ! We're excited to share submissions to our student art competition and some of the art from our talented coastal communities. Stay tuned for our announcement of winners at 5pm AEST later this evening! #PAD2025

It's #PloverAppreciationDay this Tuesday 16th and we've already had incredible entries to our art competition!

It’s not too late! If you know someone aged between 4-13 who wants to share their talents and appreciation for plovers, have them enter our competition! Details in photo.

World Shorebirds Day This is the official website of World Shorebirds Day. All rights reserved.

Celebrating and Protecting Shorebirds
6 September is recognized as World Shorebirds Day to raise awareness of the alarming rates of decline in world shorebird species and vital habitat. Urgent action is needed. Learn more at www.worldshorebirdsday.org.

We’re not sure, the fungus trials were a CSIRO initiative, but we don’t have any updates. Will try following up with them!

What better way to celebrate National #ThreatenedSpeciesDay than with the first #HoodedPlover chicks of the season in south west WA? The tiny fluff balls were seen foraging along the beach with their parents. Remember to give birds space!
📷 @birdlifeoz.bsky.social Project Officer Tegan Knowles

Envirogain have been busy removing Sea Spurge from #hoodedplover sites on Bass Coast and South Gippsland beaches this winter. Getting #habitat ready for nesting! 🥚🙌

This project is funded by the @ausgov.bsky.social under Saving Native Species and delivered by @birdlifeoz.bsky.social

📸: envirogain

Where in the world are your Chicago Piping Plovers?
El was the last to be observed in Chicago and that was on August 17. Now, we await reports of sightings from wintering grounds although no sightings is not cause for alarm as Imani, Sea Rocket, and Pippin have proven. 1/3

Running into the long weekend like

And if you need inspiration, here is some #ploverart from previous years' young #ploverlovers - how good are these?

#PloverAppreciationDay #PAD2025

Plover Appreciation Day art competition for kids aged 4-13. Submit entries to bnb.events@birdlife.org.au by 15 September 5pm AEST. With this art competition, we want to raise awareness of the plight of ground-nesting plovers through creativity among the little ones.

Less than a month for #PloverAppreciationDay on 16 Sept! We started dedicating #plovers this day back in 2015. We'll be celebrating 10th anniversary with an art competition for children. Entries by 15 Sept to bnb.events@birdlife.org.au. We'd love to see #ploverart on socials from all ages as well!

Hooded Plover adults in western Victoria - by Dan Lees

Hi! We're new here but maybe you followed us on X! We're @birdlifeoz.bsky.social's Beach-nesting Birds team - working to give birds that nest on Australian beaches a chance to raise their young 🐥 We've uploaded our past X posts, so you can learn about our work if you didn't know us!
#plovers

Last chance to register for BirdLife Australia's Beach-nesting Birds Conference! Registrations close Sunday 13th May!

Where: Anglesea, Victoria
When: May 31st - June 2nd

Conference Program:

South Gippsland locals! Did you know that an endangered #seabird is nesting on your local beaches?
Please join us next Monday at our pop-up stall to learn about the tiny and fragile Fairy Tern, their nesting colonies on your local beaches and how can you help them!

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. - YouTube

The Beach-nesting Birds Program relies on volunteers coming together, working alongside BirdLife scientists, to play an important role in helping our beach-nesting birds.

What are the benefits of volunteering with us? Hear what our volunteers have to say

Did you know that over 15,000 migratory shorebirds fly thousands of kilometers to visit Adelaide each summer? Learn more at a free Workshop - Intro to Migratory Shorebirds, Dec 3, Thompson Beach SA: @glamadelaide @GAINBioblitz @BirdSanctuarySA @BirdlifeOz

Join #Inktober webinar on Monday 2nd Oct at 6pm! Our very own @SonSanchez9 will be chatting about beach-nesting birds with @RTW_Aus and artist by Vanda Cummins from #LokiLoves while drawing a #HoodedPlover! @BirdlifeOz
Check out the other #LokiLovesInktober2023 themes & webinars!

One last #PloverPower we wanted to share - the power of keeping us connected with nature & our vollies know it well! Our new Volunteering with @BirdlifeOz's Beach-nesting Birds series is coming soon!
Thank you all for a great #PloverAppreciationDay & keep the plover love coming!

Plover Appreciation Day is only starting in some parts of the world and we love to see how spread plover love is!
#PloverAppreciationDay #PloverPower

Lesser Sand Plovers are big on #PloverPower Scores! Brave migrants to breeding grounds in Central Asia and Siberia, who transform with the "Mask of Zorro" breeding plumage, intimidating any bird that thinks they're "Lesser" because of their name!
#PloverAppreciationDay #PAD2023

Greater Sand Plover earns the Powers of "Jetstream", migrating to central Asia to breed, and Confusion over birdwatchers, being mistaken for the Lesser Sand Plover. Weaknesses (aka threats) are habitat loss, weather extremes & sea level rise
#PloverAppreciationDay #PloverPower

If you can, consider helping our @ChicagoPiping friends!
#PloverAppreciationDay

Another rare Shiny #PloverPower Card, the Hooded Plover western subspecies!
Nesting in coastal habitat and on inland salt lakes, Hooded Plover chicks are Super Foragers that feed themselves within hours of hatching! #PloverAppreciationDay
Make your card