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It’s official, the red-necked stint is CLLMM’s favourite migratory waterbird for 2026!  Thanks to everyone who voted in our poll this year to mark World Migratory Bird Day. The red-neck stint, Calidris ruficollis, is a worthy winner as Australia’s smallest shorebird. It weighs just 25 grams and has a wingspan of 29-33 cm. But despite its small size […]

We were delighted to host a Flow-MER Cultural Network meeting at the Centre last month. One Basin CRC is the knowledge exchange provider for Flow-MER, the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder’s Science Program. The program assesses how the Murray–Darling Basin environment responds to environmental flows and informs how Commonwealth environmental water is managed.  A Cultural Network has […]

Ocean beaches are central to life in the Coorong, Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth (CLLMM) region. They support wildlife, underpin local fisheries and offer space for recreation, reflection and connection to nature. Despite their importance, our understanding of these beaches has remained fragmented. Research has tended to focus on individual elements such as fisheries or […]

The Coorong, Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth (CLLMM) region is one of Australia’s most important waterbird habitats, supporting more than 140 species and between 100,000 and 300,000 birds each year. Many of these are migratory travellers along the East Asian–Australasian Flyway, and their presence has been central to the region’s listing as a Wetland of […]

The Coastal dunes project team has just published the first report from their research on coastal beach-dune dynamics in CLLMM.  The team have spent the last three years investigating: Their first report outlines what they found out about coastal beach-dune dynamics and historical changes in the Victor Harbor to Kingston region.  The team found that […]

Drought is a recurring feature of the CLLMM region, and our Climate Extremes project revealed that it causes extensive and persistent ecological change. As part of that project, we recently hosted Drought Drill, an event that brought together ~40 people from 17 organisations to workshop how we prepare and deal with drought events in the […]