App allows city-dwellers to turn citizen scientists and track Australia's urban birds

Big City Birds app launched to help researchers better understand sulphur-crested cockatoo, ibis and brush-turkey

There's a new reason to engage with some of Australia's most ubiquitous birds. A new app allows users to record the whereabouts of big city" species like the sulphur-crested cockatoo and the Australian white ibis.

Researchers at the University of Sydney and Taronga Conservation Society have launched the Big City Birds app to assist scientists with data collection and help them better understand some of our most common species.