A team of researchers is calling on citizen scientists and bird-watchers across Queensland to record sightings of backyard brush turkeys through a new app.

The app, Brush Turkeys: birds in suburbia, has been launched by the University of Sydney as part of a research project with Taronga Conservation Society and the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney.

In the past decade, there has been an increase in the number of urban brush turkeys colonising south-east Queensland and northern NSW. Credit:Taronga Conservation Society

It allows users to report their sightings of brush turkeys and provide information about their behaviour.

"People can add details such as where the turkeys are foraging, and the foods they are eating, where they are building their mounds, and whether there are chicks present,” said Dr Alicia Burns, a behavioural biologist at Taronga Conservation Society.