Time to See
Migratory birds enlarge our worlds. They connect us to places across the planet and to those who share our love for them. Their courage in making their long flights across the world is inspiring. The loss of many of their feeding, breeding and resting places along the East Asian-Australasian Flyway is heart-breaking. The numbers of the critically endangered Eastern Curlew have dropped by 80% in the last thirty years. The Eastern Curlew is just one breed of endangered shorebirds who return every year to the wetlands of Western Port Bay. Further industrialisation of the Western Port Bay wetlands endangers them all.
It’s time to see that a Ramsar site
Is not a place where industry should be
Time to hear the cries of birds
Calling us to act carefully
For Far Eastern Curlews
Red Knots and Fairy Tern
For Bar-Tailed Godwits
Will we listen and will we learn?
For waterbirds and waders
Their breeding ground’s at stake
For saltmarsh and seagrass
Will we wake for pity’s sake?
It’s time to see that a Ramsar site
Is not a place where industry should be
Time to hear the cries of birds
Calling us to act carefully
Words and music by Laura Brearley
* APRA/AMCOS Work Registration Identification Code GW58622148
Migratory birds enlarge our worlds. They connect us to places across the planet and to those who share our love for them. Their courage in making their long flights across the world is inspiring. The loss of many of their feeding, breeding and resting places along the East Asian-Australasian Flyway is heart-breaking. The numbers of the critically endangered Eastern Curlew have dropped by 80% in the last thirty years. The Eastern Curlew is just one breed of endangered shorebirds who return every year to the wetlands of Western Port Bay. Further industrialisation of the Western Port Bay wetlands endangers them all.
It’s time to see that a Ramsar site
Is not a place where industry should be
Time to hear the cries of birds
Calling us to act carefully
For Far Eastern Curlews
Red Knots and Fairy Tern
For Bar-Tailed Godwits
Will we listen and will we learn?
For waterbirds and waders
Their breeding ground’s at stake
For saltmarsh and seagrass
Will we wake for pity’s sake?
It’s time to see that a Ramsar site
Is not a place where industry should be
Time to hear the cries of birds
Calling us to act carefully
Words and music by Laura Brearley
* APRA/AMCOS Work Registration Identification Code GW58622148