Citizen science

The Eyre Peninsula Landscape Board supports citizen science as an innovative and exciting way of engaging the community, while increasing our knowledge of Eyre Peninsula’s natural environments. 

Pix Stix

For anyone with a smart phone!

Pix Stix is a citizen science project monitoring long-term changes in the environment. We monitor changes caused by climate change, such as 'coastal squeeze' of saltmarsh and mangroves caused by sea level rise; as well as changes arising from human interventions to improve environmental conditions such as revegetation or grazing control.

You can get involved by texting us a photo from one of the many Pix Stix sites across Eyre Peninsula. Your image will then be added to our online gallery for everyone to see.

Find your closest Pix Stix post at www.pixstix.com.au

EP Iconic Birds

For the novice or skilled twitcher.

Eyre Peninsula has many amazing but often secretive birds. This includes what we call ‘iconic’ species like the Australian Bustard and Osprey.

These iconic birds - whose populations may be declining or endangered - have very distinctive features, making it easy for correct bird identification by both novices and seasoned bird watchers. This provides a wonderful opportunity for citizen scientists to contribute to the conservation of these iconic birds.

We would love to hear about your sightings of any of these iconic birds:

• Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo
• White-bellied Sea-Eagle
• Little Penguin
• Bush Stone-curlew
• Australian Bustard
• Osprey
• Malleefowl

You can also enter sightings of other unusual birds by selecting 'other' from the list of birds on the form.

Record your Eyre Peninsula iconic bird sightings at www.epiconicbirds.com.au

By entering your sighting, you will help us understand where these birds are and what they are doing. Over time this will build a larger dataset that will help the community see how these populations are doing. Conservation action can then be undertaken if needed.

Your contribution to our knowledge and understanding of these species is highly valued. Any photos you submit will be added to our online gallery.

Malleefowl

Malleefowl are listed as vulnerable in South Australia and also nationally. On Eyre Peninsula, their numbers are declining. Previously we had a separate malleefowl citizen science portal but this is now part of our EP iconic birds portal.

EP Birds

For the skilled twitcher.

Eyre Peninsula is home to a growing network of skilled bird observers with more than 200 community members having attended bird identification training courses across Eyre Peninsula. Many of these trainees now volunteer as part of our EP Bird Monitoring Program, adopting specific monitoring sights where regular bird surveys are conducted, and/or contributing data on opportunistic bird sightings and surveys. This has led to more than 13,500 sightings recorded on the EP Birds Online Portal on the Living Atlas of Australia.

We enter many of the bird sightings onto the Biological Databases of South Australia. Data can also been accessed through NatureMaps.

Would you like to join this group of skilled twitchers?

You would be contributing to the region's long-term environmental monitoring program, with the data you collect going to the Biological Database of South Australia. We are always interested to hear from new people - whether you are a seasoned birder or beginner, a young person or a community group.

If you are interested in becoming involved, please email EPLBAdmin@sa.gov.au. We also have volunteering opportunities focused around long-team monitoring of shorebirds.

EP Bird Monitoring Program volunteers can access the EP Birds Online Portal and identify sites where bird monitoring is needed. You may also be interested in viewing videos of our previous bird identification training course on our YouTube Channel.

Previous projects

Our King Tides citizen science project was active until the end of 2025. This project helped us to gather data on the impact of king tides. Our Pix Stix project now captures data on this at various locations. You can click here to view our flickr photo gallery of historic king tide events on EP.

We also had projects for sightings of koalas, echidnas and goannas that tied in with previous project work. With that work now finished, we no longer collect sightings of these animals. You can see the previously submitted photos for these projects in our flickr photo gallery.

Find out more

Data collected through all of these projects (excluding Pix Stix) is entered into the Biological Databases of South Australia (project number 1322), and is available to the public via NatureMaps. All photos submitted through these projects can be viewed in our Flickr albums.