Get Involved
Join our citizen science project to collect important evidence about the presence of bell miners, BMAD and outcomes of management interventions. We're keen to hear from you!
Have bell miners or think you have BMAD?
Contribute to our Community of Practice
The growing abundance of bell miners in an area often parallels the decline of eucalypt trees. These are the obvious indicators that BMAD may be at work.
By implementing on-ground interventions that assist in the recovery of BMAD-affected forests, you are helping to mitigate the negative result of past forest disturbance practices and halt the decline of regional biodiversity values. BMAD is a well know but not fully understood phenomena. You can help us better quantify and understand the positive impact of good land management practices on BMAD by sharing your BMAD management experiences through our Citizen Science project.
So if you have bell miners, think you have BMAD or are actively managing BMD, tell us about it!
You can join the BMAD best practice management citizen science project here:
After joining the project, you can get involved through 3 different surveys
We've added some instructional videos on how to do this below. You can provide updates to each as often as you like. The more data, the better.
1. Add a Bell Miner Record - tell us the locations of a bell miner colony.
2. Bell Miner Visual Counts - count the birds in a colony. This should take about 10 minutes.
3. Success in Control Methods - a free form survey about your experience in trying to manage BMAD. Share your story with us and others.