📊 Our Results · 2025–26 · City of Moreton Bay

What a year of
shorebird stewardship looks like

Stewards. Two field tools. One bay. Year-round.

Every record on this page is filed through one of two tools

📱 ShorelineWatch : site visits, audits, post-event records 🚩 StewardWatch : flag reads on banded birds

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Sample data, not from actual field visits Illustrative entries showing the program's potential. Not records from actual Shorebird Steward field visits. The Steward's role is to observe, document, and interpret, management of shorebird habitat remains with local, state, and federal authorities.

141 Records filed

👥 15 Stewards

🚩 12 Flag reads

📍 25 Monitored sites

🗓️ Year-round Season

Records are filed across the full year, beyond the migratory window. Resident species, stay-behind shorebirds, post-storm and post-event surveys are all part of the dataset.

The year at a glance

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Site Visits (VISIT)

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Roost Audits (AUDIT)

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Shoreline Surveys (SURVEY)

Roost Verdicts

How did the roosts rate?

GREEN 22

AMBER 16

RED 10

46% of assessed roosts rated GREEN, safe, undisturbed, meeting ecological standards.

Field Activity

Records submitted per month

Natural flushing (raptor, wave surge) is recorded separately, giving the anthropogenic disturbance record the credibility it needs. Of 48 disturbance events, 28 were human-caused, the rest, natural.

Roost Site Health · All Monitored Sites

Verdict Distribution by Site

Assessment outcomes across the City of Moreton Bay

At-a-glance Health Strip

Each site's verdict balance

Boondall North shows the highest RED frequency. ⚡ Jet ski disturbance concentrates at Kakadu Beach and Manly Harbour, recorded separately from dog and human events, giving each disturbance record its own provenance.

Disturbance Heat Map · 2025–26 (annual)

When, where, and what flushed the birds?

⚡ Jet skis rank as the second highest anthropogenic disturbance source, peaking October and March, precisely when godwit numbers are highest. Natural flushing (raptor, wave) is recorded separately, keeping the human-caused record clean and independently verifiable.

The Flag Wall · 12 Colour-flagged Birds Recorded

Individual bird sightings

Every flagged individual recorded by FSB stewards this season

★ B6. Bar-tailed Godwit · Record flight: 13,391 km Alaska → Tasmania, 11 days (October 2022, juvenile). Recorded 4 times at Kakadu Beach this season.

Flags by species

What flagged species are we seeing?

Flag origin

Where were these birds flagged?

The Steward Team · 2025–26

Field Contributions · All record types

Active stewards ranked by submissions

Team profile

The steward network

15 trained Stewards active this season

8 sites covered 128 total records

Every trained Steward works from the same course material. Some interpret at the waterline to whoever’s there; some don’t. Both are full Stewards.

Commitment over time

Steward activity across the season, who showed up, and when

Species Counts · What We Saw

Peak counts by species

Highest single-count recorded per species

Seasonal presence

Species presence across the season

Conservation context

Recorded species by EPBC / IUCN status

Critically
Endangered

Endangered

Vulnerable

Least Concern

Species
Total

Of the species recorded this season, the majority are of national or global conservation concern. Moreton Bay supports 32 migratory and 16 resident shorebird species, among the most important EAAF non-breeding sites in Australia.

What a year ofshorebird stewardship looks like