Monitoring shorebirds within the Reef 2050 Integrated Monitoring and Reporting Program: final report of the shorebirds team in the megafauna expert group

Shorebirds, also known as waders, gather in intertidal areas or on the fringes of freshwater wetlands. There are two major components to current shorebird monitoring in the Great Barrier Reef, each are discussed in the RIMReP report.