The Atlas of Australian Birds is a major ongoing project initiated and managed by
Birds Australia (formerly RAOU) to map the distribution of
Australian birds. Birds Australia is a
not-for-profit bird research and conservation organisation, There have been other bird atlasses produced for various countries and islands around the world, but the Australian project was the first to cover an entire continent. Volunteers collected data on Australian birds in order to establish a database and publish a book (1984) summarising the findings. A second period of fieldwork nearly 20 years later resulted in the publication of a second atlas in 2002.
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