''The State of Australia's Birds'' (SOAB) is a report series that tracks trends in Australia's bird populations. From 2003–2010, this was delivered as an annual report produced by the

Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union The Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU), now part of BirdLife Australia, was Australia's largest non-government, non-profit, bird conservation organisation. It was founded in 1901 to promote the study and bird conservation, conservati ...

(now known as BirdLife Australia) in the form of an illustrated colour magazine supplement. The 2015 version of the report marks the beginning of a new era in the series, with the introduction of the Australian Bird Index.

Overview

The SOAB reports collate and analyse information on trends in the conservation status of bird populations in Australia. Some of the material presented in SOAB is extracted from BirdLife Australia's monitoring projects, notably the

Atlas of Australian Birds The Atlas of Australian Birds is a major ongoing database project initiated and managed by BirdLife Australia (formerly the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union) to map the distribution of Australia's bird species. BirdLife Australia is a n ...

citizen science project. All issues are available for free download.

2003-2010 Reports

The reports were published as supplements to ''Wingspan'' magazine. The 2003 and 2008 editions of SOAB were five-yearly overviews, while the other editions were themed on various aspects of Australian avifauna (for example, SOAB 2010 was themed on Birds and Islands).

2015 and Future Reports

The 2015 (SOAB) report launched the first Australian Bird Indices for terrestrial birds and introduces Australia's Red List Index (RLI), a means of tracking trends in the status of Australia's most threatened bird groups. BirdLife Australia plan to release a comprehensive SOAB report in 2020, that will include indices for all of Australia's bioregions, highlight trends for a wide range of terrestrial species, and provide an evaluation of the monitoring gaps. The 2020 report also aims to incorporate information from the National Environmental Science Program Threatened Species Index project, the first iteration of which was a Threatened Bird Index, showing declines across multiple threatened bird taxa.

List of issues

# ''The State of Australia's Birds 2003'' # ''The State of Australia's Birds 2004'': Water, wetlands and birds # ''The State of Australia's Birds 2005'': Woodlands and Birds # ''The State of Australia's Birds 2006'': Invasive Species # ''The State of Australia's Birds 2007'': Birds in a Changing Climate # ''The State of Australia's Birds 2008'': A Five Year Review # ''The State of Australia's Birds 2009:'' Restoring Woodland Habitats for Birds # ''The State of Australia's Birds 2010'': Islands and Birds # ''The State of Australia's Birds 2015'': Headline Trends for Terrestrial BirdsEhmke ''et al''. (2015).

References

Notes

Sources

* Ehmke,G., Cunningham, R., O’Connor, J., Garnett, S., Lau, J., Herman, K. (Eds). 2014. The State of Australia's Birds 2015: Headline Trends for Terrestrial Birds. BirdLife Australia, Melbourne. * Kirkwood, J. and O'Connor, J. (Eds). 2010. The State of Australia's Birds 2010: Islands and Birds. Supplement to ''Wingspan'' Vol. 20, No. 4, 2010. Birds Australia, Melbourne. . * Olsen, P. (Ed). 2007. The State of Australia's Birds 2007: Birds in a Changing Climate. Supplement to ''Wingspan'' Vol. 17, No. 4, 2007. Birds Australia, Melbourne. . * Olsen, P. (Ed). 2008. The State of Australia's Birds 2008: A Five Year Review. Supplement to ''Wingspan'' Vol. 18, No. 4, 2008. Birds Australia, Melbourne. . * Olsen, P., Silcocks, A. and Weston, M. (Eds). 2006. The State of Australia's Birds 2006: Invasive Species. Supplement to ''Wingspan'' Vol. 16, No. 4, 2006. Birds Australia, Melbourne. . * Olsen, P. and Weston, M. (Eds). 2004. The State of Australia's Birds 2004: Water, wetlands and birds. Supplement to ''Wingspan'' Vol. 14, No. 4, 2004. . * Olsen, P., Weston, M., Cunningham, R. and Silcocks, A. (Eds). 2003. The State of Australia's Birds 2003. Supplement to ''Wingspan'' Vol. 13, No. 4, 2003. Birds Australia, Melbourne. . * Olsen, P., Weston, M., Tzaros, C. and Silcocks, A. (Eds). 2005. The State of Australia's Birds 2005: Woodlands and Birds. Supplement to ''Wingspan'' Vol. 15, No. 4, 2005. Birds Australia, Melbourne. . * Paton, D. and O'Connor, J. (Eds). 2009. The State of Australia's Birds 2009: Restoring Woodland Habitats for Birds. Supplement to ''Wingspan'' Vol. 19, No. 4, 2009. Birds Australia, Melbourne. .

External links

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