Notice the birds still here.
Moreton Bay's shorebirds are part of the East Asian–Australasian Flyway, the longest migration on the planet. Their numbers are dropping. We need more eyes at the waterline. Yours, regularly, would help.
What you need is a phone, a stretch of bay, and a couple of minutes to learn the basics. No course needed to start. When you're ready to train properly, the Shorebird Steward Program is the next step.
Gazza will give you the brief, about two minutes, then ask you a few simple questions to check we're on the same page. Then the observation tool opens on this device. It'll ask for your initials (kept on this device, turned into a pseudonym for your records). Drop a pin where you watched, tap roughly what you saw, hit submit. That's it.
The tool stays open while you keep visiting the bay. Records you file under your pseudonym build a cadence the tool reads. A long pause prompts a quick refresh with Gazza on return.
Your records flow into the same dataset that trained Stewards contribute to. Same Gazza, same record stream. When you enrol later, he'll already know what you've seen.
Gazza
"Two minutes. I'll show you the bay — what to look for, what to watch out for. Then a few simple questions, to make sure we're seeing the same thing. Then you begin."