Tracking Australian Painted-snipe

👀 Here’s the key map from our presentation at the Australasian Ornithological Conference in Perth last week. It shows the long distance movements of Gloria, Marcelina, Knighty, Hope and Thomasina 😊 A strong pattern is emerging that emphasises the value of the Lake Eyre Basin.

And as always, thank you to everyone else that made all of this possible, especially with your donations to the crowdfunding. These are our eighth and ninth birds to be tracked.

Inhancer is thanks to Birdlife Australia as a tribute to Ian Hance, who made a huge contribution as a volunteer, spearheading a lot of the early collation and databasing of APS records.

Clive comes to us thanks to the Victorian Wader Study Group as a tribute to the late Clive Minton, widely recognised as the ‘grandfather’ of shorebird research in Australia.

We’re absolutely thrilled to introduce Clive and Inhancer, a pair caught this morning in the Macquarie Marshes and fitted with GPS 4G transmitters from Global Messenger. We are immensely grateful to the local landholders, Leanne, Garry & Jet Hall, who were central in the success.

Happy 20th Birthday to @BirdlifeOz’s Birdata! Here’s an example of how useful it is, showing the peak season for Australian Painted-snipe in southern Australia (Oct-Jan) compared to the north, as well as the peak years like 2010-2012 after the millennium drought broke.

👀 LOOK AT THIS NEW BREEDING RECORD!! It’s from an undisclosed wetland in the Townsville region of north QLD. This incredible sighting of a male Australian Painted-snipe with his three babies is absolutely sensational. Photos by Graham Holder.

One of our Macquarie Marshes birds finally hit 5G coverage and just have us a dump of 573 fixes! HE’S IN NORTH QLD!Its a gold mine of data.

Check out our recent upload of some high accuracy tracking fixes to the NSW Bionet Wildlife Atlas, all originating from just two properties with tagged birds. Be it Narriearra Caryapundy Swamp NP or private land in the Pilliga, revealing new APS sites like this is priceless.

👀 Look at this stunner from Derby yesterday! Jake Barker and Larissa Potter hit the jackpot at Munkajarra, one of only three known sites in WA over the past two or three years: paintedsnipe.com.au/2025/03/…