Bookend Trust

14/08/2026

Please spread the word! These two have some fascinating science and fun to be shared next week...

08/08/2026

If you're on Flinders Island, or Truwana on 17-21 August, the NatureTrackers team would love to talk wildlife and wildlife monitoring science with you. It's National Science Week!
Everyone is warmly invited to take part in the annual NatureTrackers projects – helping keep watch over birds of prey, wetland birds, bats, burrowing crayfish and more, across Tasmania... And how might that work fit in with any monitoring you're doing yourself? Come & chat all about it with Jim and Clare...

🦅This National Science Week, are out showing the Furneaux Islands some love and bringing their awesome citizen science projects!

📍Flinders: 17-20th August
📍Truwana: 20-21st August

Get involved at a school or library near you! https://inspiringtas.org.au/event/calltrackers-in-…furneaux-islands/

26/07/2026

For comprehensive information about bird flu in Australia, see the government website https://birdflu.gov.au/
For other options for reporting observations of healthy, injured or dead wildlife in Tasmania, check out NatureTrackers' Report Something page: https://naturetrackers.au/report/

Bird flu has now been detected on Australian shore. What would you do if you found a dead bird?

10/07/2026

We're starting to plan for that special time of year again!
📣 North-western teachers - bookings for Claws on the Line visits are now OPEN... 🦞

29/05/2026

Good luck everyone! Wishing you fantastic survey days…

It's the start of the second (& final) round of surveys for Where? Where? We**ie! 2026! Sixty-five teams are taking part, all across Tasmania, with twenty-nine of them heading out to their booked survey squares today, to survey for all raptor species and also the three white cockatoo species. Find out why here https://naturetrackers.au/projects/where-where-wedgie/ – and follow along the results, as they're uploaded throughout the days, here https://webapp.naturetrackers.com.au/map_results
Good luck everyone!

27/05/2026

Don't forget to book!
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Last chance to book!! Today's the deadline for booking a Where? Where? We**ie! 2026 survey - so if you were thinking of taking part, go for it. Each additional survey makes for more accurate science (especially where, together, we cover a survey square for 2 days).
Join us all on this *eighth* year of raptor surveys - details & bookings: https://naturetrackers.au/.../where-where-wedgie/take-part/
📷 Mick Brown

06/05/2026

NatureTrackers is at Agfest! Come & talk Where Where We**ie & all things raptor - we’re here for all 3 days. Find out how your wingspan compares with various raptors (Coordinator Clare’s arms can’t quite reach a sea eagle’s); and pick up a free raptor ID guide.

We’re on corner Main/Fifth Street, kindly hosted by TasNetworks.

The first surveys are *next weekend*! (Friday - Sunday 15-17 May).

Can’t get over to us at Agfest? Find out all about it, & access the booking details, via https://naturetrackers.au/projects/where-where-wedgie/

Booking deadline is a few days before each weekend.

23/04/2026

There have been some big Atlantic puffin wrecks (mass mortalities) this year due to storms and disruption of foraging, so it's good to see that Skomer Island at least has strong returning numbers for the breeding season.

Puffin numbers are declining in many areas, but Skomer is bucking the trend.

14/04/2026

It's that Where? Where? We**ie! time of year again, with bookings open for the citizen science and the webinars, and a big range of associated educational resources. Please share with the Tasmanian teacher/s in your life! 🦅
(Click on the shared post's date/time to see the links in the comments)

Welcome to the beginning of our eagle adventure this year.  I'm Dr Clare Hawkins and, through the videos on these pages, I'll be taking you on a scientific journey to learn about birds in Tasmania with my friend Dr James Pay.  In the resources for teachers, you'll also find some fascinating oppor...