Please join Hume City Council's Urban Biodiversity Officer, Melissa Doherty on a guided nature walk along Malcolm Creek in Craigieburn for City Nature Challenge 2026.
We will start the morning by doing a water bug survey, and then walk along Malcolm Creek looking for birds and plants.
Meet on the footpath by Featherpark Way, Craigieburn. There is car parking along Featherpark Way. Here is a Google map link:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/Jj892wPStt2TTT769
This is an accessible concrete footpath suitable for wheelchairs and prams.
Beginner citizen scientists welcome.
City Nature Challenge 2026
This community biodiversity survey is for the global City Nature Challenge (CNC) weekend running from Friday 24 April to Monday 27 April 2026. It’s free, easy, and fun to get involved.
Bring your mobile phone or digital camera to take pictures of the wild plants, animals and fungi you see, or make sound recordings of frog or bird calls. Any observations taken over the four days, need to be uploaded to iNaturalist by Sunday 3 May 2026, to be included in CNC 2026. These observations are automatically added to the CNC projects.
This is a friendly competition amongst cities to make the most observations of the most species by the most people. Hume City is collaborating with other local government areas and several organisations to form the Greater Melbourne project.
Everyday people with no expert ecological knowledge can contribute as citizen scientists to help nature, and also learn more about the local environment.
Here are links to the iNaturalist project leader boards for GSB 2025:
To prepare for the guided nature walks and talks
- Install the iNaturalist app on your mobile phone and create an iNaturalist account
- Make sure your phone battery or camera is fully charged on the day
- Wear long pants and weather-appropriate clothing, bring a rain/wind-proof jacket
- Wear safe, fully-enclosed walking shoes to go in long grass
- Bring a hat (sunscreen will be provided)
- Bring your own drink bottle and snacks
- Some binoculars will be available to borrow, or bring along your own
- Hard copies of the Birds of Hume and Fauna of Hume will be available at the event, or find digital versions at Discover Nature in Hume.
Contact for more information
Melissa Doherty
Urban Biodiversity Officer, Hume City Council
melissado@hume.vic.gov.au
(03) 9205 2200, 0409 702 086
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Disclaimer
By participating in this event, you acknowledge that you are aware of the inherent risks involved and voluntarily assume all risks of injury, damage, or loss that may occur during this walk and talk event in a nature reserve.