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  1. Site Page: Unlocking the mystery of the Regent Honeyeater – Atlas of Living Australia

    Posted on 13th April 2021 A recent study by Ross Crates, a scientist at ANU’s Difficult Bird Research Group, explains why Regent Honeyeaters are changing their songs. More importantly, Ross wanted to find out what the change means for their future. Ross Crates in the field with an endangered Regent Honeyeater. Australia’s most endangered songbird Australia’s most threatened songbird, the Regent Honeyeater (Anthochaera (Xanthomyza) phrygia), is changing its bird call...

  2. Site Page: Call for citizen scientists! Ecologists gathering in Launceston want to know what nature is in your backyard – Atlas of Living Australia

    Posted on 28th November 2019 600 ecologists gathering in Launceston have called for local’s help to snap local plants, fungi and animals – with one researcher particularly interested in hearing about local Honeyeaters. During the Ecological Society of Australia conference delegates and the Launceston community are being invited to contribute to science and environmental decision making by participating in a BioBlitz...

  3. Site Page: ALA webinar: Saving species at speed – Conservation and the science of animal movement – Atlas of Living Australia

    Posted on 22nd September 2021 Australian animals show an enormous diversity of movement behaviour, due to a long evolutionary history of adaptation to highly variable – and occasionally extreme – environmental conditions...

  4. Site Page: The Atlas now has over 25 million records – Atlas of Living Australia

    Posted on 30th August 2011 The recent addition of 1.2 million records from the Canberra Ornithologists Group (COG) Garden Bird Surveys data set brings the grand total of Atlas records to just over 25 million! We have occurrence records – specimens, sightings, surveys – together with images, links to videos and species profile fact sheets. The Canberra Ornithologists Group (COG) has been diligently compiling garden bird surveys for 30 years...

  5. Site Page: Selection of multiple layers – Atlas of Living Australia

    Posted on 31st January 2012 The Spatial Portal will remember a previous set of (environmental) layers where there is an option to select multiple layers, as in most of the analysis tools and for adding layers to the map. Any set of environmental layers can be uploaded, pasted, or downloaded for later use. The ‘Short name’ of the layer is used for brevity. See About Short Names » Layer Set Options Choose to use the pre-set 5 most independent terrestrial layers for analysis...

  6. Site Page: Australia’s bathing birdies – Atlas of Living Australia

    Posted on 30th May 2016 Citizen scientists help uncover the secrets of bird baths across Australia Dr Gráinne Cleary from Deakin University’s School of Life and Environmental Sciences, recently published Australia’s largest ever study into the use of urban and rural bird baths in private gardens...

  7. Site Page: Beauty from nature: art of the Scott sisters – Atlas of Living Australia

    Posted on 30th August 2011 An exhibition featuring illustrations of butterflies, moths, caterpillars and plants by Harriet and Helena Scott, two of 19th century Australia’s most prominent natural history artists will be held at the Australian Museum in Sydney on 3 September – 27 November 2011. Highlights of the exhibition are 60 watercolour paintings created between 1846 and 1851 for their father A.W. Scott’s landmark publication Australian Lepidoptera and their Transformations...

  8. Site Page: DNA key to identifying eggs in museum collections – Atlas of Living Australia

    Posted on 15th January 2021 A new study shows how the scientific value of collections can be improved by DNA technologies that provide high-confidence taxonomic identifications of specimens. There are 24,000 clutches of bird eggs from more than 1,000 species in the Australian National Wildlife Collection (ANWC). Here are the eggs used in this study. Image credit: ANWC, CSIRO...

  9. Site Page: Species (Add to Map) – Atlas of Living Australia

    Posted on 7th February 2012 This tool allows you to search for a species available via the Atlas (including at higher taxonomic levels) and map their distribution. The selection of taxa (species, genus etc) uses a method called auto-complete. As you enter letters, the system searches for taxa that match what you have typed. The auto-complete function should support browsers on any system including tablets. Add to Map options From the menu option, select “Add To Map” and then “Species”...

  10. Site Page: Over 10 million collections-based records on the Atlas. – Atlas of Living Australia

    Posted on 8th May 2015 It was early in 2014 that the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) announced that it had reached one billion downloads and now in 2015, the ALA is proud to announce another great achievement...