Take flight with the 2025 Aussie Bird Count!
Take flight with the 2025 Aussie Bird Count!
Registrations are now open for Australia’s largest citizen science project. BirdLife Australia’s annual Aussie Bird Count is on 20-26 October 2025.
From Monday 20 to Sunday 26 October 2025, BirdLife Australia is inviting people of all ages to take just 20 minutes out of their day to spot, identify, and count the birds around them.
Last year, more than 57,000 participants submitted nearly 130,000 checklists and logged more than 4.1 million birds across the country using the free Aussie Bird Count app.
Bold, adaptable species – the Rainbow Lorikeet, Noisy Miner, and Australian Magpie – again topped the charts. Will they swoop in for the top three once more in 2025?
How to take part
- Pick your spot – anywhere you like, from your backyard to your favourite park or garden
- Spend 20 minutes quietly observing the birds you see
- Submit your count using the Aussie Bird Count app, which will help you identify the birds you see and hear
You can go out and count as many times as you like during Bird Week as long as each count lasts 20 minutes and is submitted separately.
The event is an important step towards connection between people, place and purpose.
It is also helping Australians to embrace the natural environment and sustainable thinking, through activations in classrooms, councils and even workplaces, with many embracing it as a learning tool, community activity and wellbeing initiative.
Download the free Aussie Bird Count app or visit www.aussiebirdcount.org.au to register.
Wild in The Gap!
Thank you to amateur photographer Anne Cornegé (Facebook Group: Wildlife in The Gap) for her beautiful photo of a Scarlet Honeyeater in bottlebrush.
We welcome anyone who has a great wildlife photo taken in the Western suburbs to send us your photo/s. We would love to feature wildlife images in The Western Echo on a regular basis.
Please send your photo/s to Melanie: editor@westernecho.com.au
Main photo credit: Anne Cornegé
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