This is a resource page of additional information for the Tiger Bay Wetlands Walk.

Link: WETLANDS

This link takes you to The Department, through the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office website with information about Australian wetlands, the Ramsar convention, managing wetlands and more.

List: TIGER BAY’S TOP 40

Apps: BIRD ID APPS

• Birdly – BirdLife Australia app – 938 species included; FREE, Android and iOS
• Birda – shares sightings with the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF); FREE, Android and iOS
• Pizzey & Knight Birds Of Aus – field guide with over 900 species; BUY, Android and iOS
• Morcombe & Stewart Guide (Birds of Australia) – field guide with 790 species; BUY, Android and iOS
• Stewart Australian Bird Calls – identification through bird calls, 3800 recordings for 725 species; BUY, Android and iOS

Citizen Science Project: FROG IDENTIFICATION – AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM

Guide: WETLAND BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA FEATHER MAP

The Feather Map of Australia project collected waterbird feathers from wetlands around Australia. The feathers were analysed using nuclear techniques, such as mass spectrometry and high resolution X-ray fluorescence, to identify stable isotopes and minerals that are incorporated into feathers through the ingestion of food. The analyses identified the differences in feathers from diverse parts of Australia, creating a Feather Map.

Guide: WOODLAND BIRDS GUIDE

This booklet by Birdlife Australia aims to help you identify woodland-dependent and common woodland species of south-eastern Australia.

Paper: GASTROLITHS

Keen to find out more about why crayfish produce ‘stomach stones’ or gastroliths? For more detail, look at this paper from the New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, titled The function of freshwater crayfish gastroliths and their occurrence in perch, trout, and shag stomachs by D. Scott & K. W. Duncan (2010).

Link: FISH IN WETLANDS

Fish use wetlands for breeding, feeding and shelter. Find out more from the NSW Environment and Heritage.

Citizen Science Site: WETLANDSNAP

WetlandSnap is a citizen science initiative to engage and mobilise communities to help track environmental conditions at wetlands and rivers. WetlandSnap are capturing images of wetlands and rivers that will be used to assess water, soil, plants and other biota, and how they change over time.

Images and spatial information submitted from public WetlandSnap sites and one-off snapshots from other sites are intended to be openly available for visualisation, outreach, research, and other purposes.

TO CONTRIBUTE: If you would like to participate in this citizen science project please take a photo from the post, leaning your phone on the frame. Email your photo to WetlandSnap at Macquarie University (wetlandsnap at mq dot edu dot au) using the post identification in the subject line of your email. eg TB1. The ID for the site is on the post – take a photo of it too, to remind you of it when you send your email. There are tips on how to take a good photo on the WetlandSnap website.

Once we have a collection of photos over time, we will use these to study how these important environments change. A folder with the collected photos will be put together on the WetlandSnap website. This may take some time. Your patience is appreciated.