Birgita has extensive experience in wildlife ecology, and her primary research focuses on the conservation of shorebirds, waterbirds and their wetland habitats. Birgita has been working on shorebirds for nearly 30 years. She started her shorebird journey with the Victorian Wader Study Group in 2000 and has been contributing to volunteer catching and monitoring, and scientific research ever since. In her Federation University role, Birgita is responsible for the Centre’s environmental research program, leading a wide variety of projects relating to citizen science, natural resource management and digital agriculture, as well as supervising Higher Degree by Research students. She has also dabbled in research on woodland bird responses to riparian restoration. Birgita is the Chair of the Australasian Wader Studies Group and a representative to the International Wader Study Group Executive Committee. She was recently appointed to the East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership Technical Advisory Group where she looks forward to providing scientific support to groups and individuals in the Flyway trying to protect migratory waterbirds. Birgita is leading The Latham’s Snipe Project, a national citizen science project investigating the ecology, migration and habitat use by Latham’s Snipe.