- images of wildlife caught on camera
- download the Wildlife Spotter video [9 MB]
- spokespeople available for interview
Australian wildlife scientists need your eyeballs this August to help them study where Australia’s wild things are for Wildlife Spotter—the ABC’s citizen science project for National Science Week.
Australia is a vast country. Researchers have set up automatic cameras that are snapping wildlife day and night. Now they need your help to analyse the millions of photographs they’ve captured in tropical rainforests, the dry rangelands, and around our cities.
From superb lyrebirds to common wombats, from bettongs to bandicoots, from brush turkeys to Tassie devils, and even feral cats and foxes—scientists want to know which species are roaming both in the wild and in urban areas. Participants will help answer questions including: how many endangered bettongs are left; how well native predators like quolls and devils are competing with cats for food; and how common are common wombats.
You can join in by heading to the Wildlife Spotter website at www.wildlifespotter.net.au. [Read more…] about Help find the wild things: citizen scientists needed to spot wildlife caught on camera
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