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#acoustics #citizenscience #Tasmania #conservation #science #conservationscience #wildlife #monitoring #STEM #ornithology #bittern #bat #curlew #threatenedspecies #biodiversity #nature #CallTrackers #NatureTrackers 🌏🧪🦇🪶🦉🌿🎙️
clawkins.bsky.social Clare Hawkins @clawkins.bsky.social · Sep 6
Take part in Tasmania's annual population tracking of noisy but elusive species...
Choose your survey square (anywhere in the state, there's one <6 km from you) & book your recorder.
Help discover who's calling where—& over time, how their populations are going!
naturetrackers.au/projects/cal...
Picture of a small dark green Wildlife Acoustics recorder set up on a stake in a rainforest in northwestern Tasmania, captioned: CallTrackers season 2026-27 starts on 7th September: Threatened Species Day. Have you booked yours yet? naturetrackers.au' and featuring the lime green CallTrackers logo with a bright pink sound wave, and, in black a bat and an Australasian bittern .
September 6, 2026 at 9:30 PM
clawkins.bsky.social
Take part in Tasmania's annual population tracking of noisy but elusive species...
Choose your survey square (anywhere in the state, there's one <6 km from you) & book your recorder.
Help discover who's calling where—& over time, how their populations are going!
naturetrackers.au/projects/cal...
Picture of a small dark green Wildlife Acoustics recorder set up on a stake in a rainforest in northwestern Tasmania, captioned: CallTrackers season 2026-27 starts on 7th September: Threatened Species Day. Have you booked yours yet? naturetrackers.au' and featuring the lime green CallTrackers logo with a bright pink sound wave, and, in black a bat and an Australasian bittern .
September 6, 2026 at 9:27 PM
utas.edu.au
Citizen scientists across Tasmania can help track down the haunting call of one of the world’s most threatened migratory birds, the critically endangered far eastern curlew.

Attend a workshop during #NationalScienceWeek across the state: utas.au/CallTrackers

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Far eastern curlew
August 18, 2025 at 1:35 AM
canuckcarl.bsky.social
Thank you for this informative thread on the Far Eastern Curlew and the the CallTrackers app. Technology is amazing, though I only have a 17 year old Blackberry phone which doesn't have the Smartphone technology.
August 7, 2025 at 1:39 PM
clawkins.bsky.social
Dive into the sounds of Tasmania's wetlands from dusk till dawn...🧵⬆️
#acoustics #citizenscience #Tasmania #conservation #science #conservationscience #wildlife #monitoring #nationalscienceweek #STEM #ornithology #bittern #threatenedspecies #biodiversity #nature #CallTrackers #NatureTrackers 🌏🧪🦇🪶🦉🌿🎙️
August 13, 2025 at 10:39 PM
clawkins.bsky.social
...hone the recognition software, so we can all better monitor for bitterns across Tasmania.
It's fun, there'll be great snacks, & you don't need to be an expert. Have a go for National Science Week!
Details & bookings: events.humanitix.com/bittern-ques...
#nationalscienceweek
Bittern quest: boom or bust? [afternoon]
Learn about the mysterious, Endangered Australasian bittern, & help track down its booming call among data collected across Tasmania by CallTrackers volunteers!
events.humanitix.com
August 13, 2025 at 10:39 PM
clawkins.bsky.social
In Hobart this Sunday? Your ears are very much needed for this special BITTERN QUEST!
Help check CallTrackers' haunting recordings from around Tasmania—tentatively identified as likely the 'boom' of an Endangered Australasian bittern—in order to...
#nationalscienceweek #citizenscience #bioacoustics
A small raft is being punted by someone dressed as a squire; on the raft is a life size model of a horse, entirely covered in red and white squared cloth, and ridden by an armoured knight. They on a calm river and floating past some promising looking bittern habitat (reeds) Photo: Jim Whitehead
August 13, 2025 at 10:39 PM
clawkins.bsky.social
#NatureTrackers' big #news! 🧵
with @btobirds.bsky.social
#bioacoustics #acoustics #citizenscience #CallTrackers #Tasmania #conservation #science #conservationscience #wildlife #monitoring #nationalscienceweek #STEM #ornithology #birds #curlew #threatenedspecies #biodiversity #nature 🌏🧪🦇🪶🦉🌿🎙️
clawkins.bsky.social Clare Hawkins @clawkins.bsky.social · Aug 7
This season, we can announce a new call recogniser in the software: for Critically Endangered FAR EASTERN CURLEWS, seen but rarely heard in #Tasmania.
It recognised calls from our 1st recordings near curlews, at dusk & dawn.
Where else will #CallTrackers detect them?
#news 🧪🌏🪶🌿🎙️
📷 Elaine McDonald
Far eastern curlew on low wetland vegetation in Tasmania, showing off its immensely long, slightly downward curved bill.
August 7, 2025 at 5:08 AM
clawkins.bsky.social
Please be part of it! Sign up! And for #NationalScienceWeek there are friendly intros to CallTrackers across Tasmania...
naturetrackers.au/news/spring-...

#CitizenScience #monitoring #conservation #Tasmania #NatureTrackers
🧪🌏🪶🌿🦇🎙️

📷 Helen Cunningham
Spring into wildlife monitoring action! | Latest news | NatureTrackers
National Science Week workshops across Tasmania, September schools visits and more…
naturetrackers.au
August 7, 2025 at 4:48 AM
clawkins.bsky.social
—by Cradle Coast Authority’s NRM + Devonport City Council, under the Aus Govt-funded Urban Rivers & Catchments Program.
As the habitat improves, will #CallTrackers start to record the haunting curlew call & the bittern's boom?
Now we can find out.
#acoustic #conservation 🧪🌏🪶🌿🦇🎙️
📷 Elaine McDonald
Flying far eastern curlew against a plain pale grey sky.
August 7, 2025 at 4:48 AM
clawkins.bsky.social
This season, we can announce a new call recogniser in the software: for Critically Endangered FAR EASTERN CURLEWS, seen but rarely heard in #Tasmania.
It recognised calls from our 1st recordings near curlews, at dusk & dawn.
Where else will #CallTrackers detect them?
#news 🧪🌏🪶🌿🎙️
📷 Elaine McDonald
Far eastern curlew on low wetland vegetation in Tasmania, showing off its immensely long, slightly downward curved bill.
August 7, 2025 at 4:48 AM
clawkins.bsky.social
If you contribute to CallTrackers' annual surveys for #Tasmania 's 'noisy but elusive' species (like bats & the Endangered Australasian bittern)—you get to use @btobirds.bsky.social's Acoustic Pipeline software. Increasingly accurately, this can flag likely calls of these species...
#citsci 🧪🌏🪶🌿🦇🎙️
Small, green wildlife acoustic recorder set up at Moulting Lagoon, Tasmania, to record ultrasonic and audible sounds made by wildlife: recorder on stake in foreground; dunes, sand and sea in background Australasian bittern, facing camera, well-hidden in green reeds with upward-pointing dull yellow bill, yellow eyes looking forward, beige and white feathered breast. Photo: Helen Cunningham
August 7, 2025 at 4:48 AM
clawkins.bsky.social
...and keep your eyes peeled for VERY exciting news coming soon, about the species we can learn about through CallTrackers acoustic monitoring...

#Tasmania #CallTrackers #NatureTrackers #bats #bitterns #citizenscience #stem #nationalscienceweek #acoustic #conservation 🌏 🧪🪶🦇🌿🎙️
August 5, 2025 at 7:50 AM
clawkins.bsky.social
Learn all about it for #NationalScienceWeek! Every Sept-March, you can help monitor wildlife across #Tasmania & learn more about your more elusive neighbours, by borrowing #CallTrackers’ state-of-the-art recorders from various libraries.
Find out more in a workshop: naturetrackers.au/news/spring-...
August 5, 2025 at 7:40 AM
clawkins.bsky.social
...check out this very cool online workshop which will enable you to explore your recordings further 😲 🦇
Find out more with Tas bat expert Dr Lisa Cawthen:
www.scienceweek.net.au/event/chirop...

#acoustics #bats #Tasmania #wildlife #monitoring #nature #calltrackers #nationalscienceweek
Chiropterology for Beginners: How to decode the secret world of bats - National Science Week
Step into the fascinating world of bats with this special Australian National Science Week session! Discover the basics of chiropterology (the study of bats) as you learn how to survey bats and decode...
www.scienceweek.net.au
August 3, 2025 at 3:11 AM
clawkins.bsky.social
Tasmanians! Getting into the massive #NationalScienceWeek buzz? Maybe you've already booked into a 'Discover CallTrackers' acoustic monitoring workshop, or 'Bittern Quest'? Details in #NatureTrackers' calendar—see August: naturetrackers.au/about/events...
But ALSO...

#CitSci #STEM #Tasmania 🧪🌏🌿🎙️🪶🦇
August 3, 2025 at 3:11 AM
clawkins.bsky.social
Here are some nice articles on SBS:
Source of the cartoon: fritsahlefeldt.com/wp-content/u...
A little more info: earth.org/shifting-bas...
Conversation article with other angles: theconversation.com/forget-envir...

#NatureTrackers #WorldWildlifeDay #WhereWhereWedgie #ClawsOnTheLine #CallTrackers
Are You Suffering From Shifting Baseline Syndrome?  | Earth.Org
Shifting Baseline Syndrome is a gradual change in the accepted norms for the condition of the environment due to a lack of knowledge of its past condition.
earth.org
March 3, 2025 at 11:20 AM
clawkins.bsky.social
A few spots left for this #CallTrackers acoustic monitoring workshop by the Mersey Estuary in #Tasmania! This Thurs 27th Feb, 4-6 pm. Learn how to set a recorder up, & how this can help conserve noisy, elusive species & support some exciting restoration work...
events.humanitix.com/calltrackers...
CallTrackers In Action!
Get to grips with the CallTrackers project through a hands-on workshop by the Mersey: monitoring curlews, bitterns, bats & more through their calls
events.humanitix.com
February 24, 2025 at 9:52 AM
clawkins.bsky.social
We have 2 months left before the end of the season, and we're currently quite short of surveys.
Read what's involved, then book a square and a recorder: naturetrackers.au/projects/cal...
Questions? Just give CallTrackers HQ a hoy.

#CallTrackers #NatureTrackers #bioacoustics #citizenscience
Small green acoustic recorder set up on a light, portable pole, with forest and a creek surrounded by wetland (leading into Tooms Lake) behind.
February 2, 2025 at 3:02 AM
clawkins.bsky.social
In #Tasmania? How about marking #WorldWetlandsDay by getting into the CallTrackers project? Help map & monitor elusive, Endangered Australasian Bittern booms, bat chirps & more. It's a fun adventure with a super-cool #bioacoustics gadget...
📷 Helen Cunningham

🦇🎙️ #citsci #CallTrackers
Australasian bittern hiding among reeds, eyeing the photographer dubiously and standing upright with bill pointing upwards to blend in. It's hard to make out through the reeds, but it's the size and shape of a stocky heron, with streaky cream and brown breast and long, solid bill. They're rarely seen - much easier to detect by the male's booming calls.
February 2, 2025 at 3:02 AM
clawkins.bsky.social
Info on how to help monitor noisy but elusive species across Tasmania through #CallTrackers here: naturetrackers.au/projects/cal...
CallTrackers | Our projects | NatureTrackers
CallTrackers is the Bookend Trust’s third and newest NatureTrackers project, aimed at using sound recorders to find and monitor noisy but elusive species.
naturetrackers.au
November 26, 2024 at 9:51 AM
clawkins.bsky.social
…picking up a #CallTrackers acoustic recorder. The echidna showed no sign of noticing me - the dream nature observation.
*And* the @btobirds.bsky.social
#AcousticPipeline
call recogniser tentatively ID’d 3 bat species in the recordings.

#Tasmania #NatureTrackers
#Bioacoustics
A dark green bioacoustic recorder is in the foreground, cable tied to a slim pole. Behind is wetland vegetation and a creek leading into a lake, and forest rising up a slope all round the right hand side of the lake and towards the viewer
November 26, 2024 at 9:51 AM
clawkins.bsky.social
The thing about field biology is that it gets you out into a whole heap of nature. Who knows what you’ll encounter on a #citizenscience species monitoring trip?
A couple of weeks ago I had this lovely experience on the way back from…

#CallTrackers
#WildOz 🧪🌏🌿🦉🦇
November 26, 2024 at 9:51 AM
clawkins.bsky.social
I've long been gathering & interpreting species monitoring data scholar.google.com.au/citations?vi...
In recent years have started coordinating monitoring through #citizenscience - naturetrackers.au/projects/ - including our #CallTrackers #bioacoustics project.
Would love to be added.
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November 24, 2024 at 10:44 PM
clawkins.bsky.social
Oops & to clarify - #CallTrackers is all about #Bioacoustics!
November 16, 2024 at 5:04 AM