Welcome to Birds Australia North Queensland Group

Birds Australia North Queensland

Welcome to the home page of the North Queensland Group of Birds Australia!

Latest update: 9 February 2010.

CONTENTS

About Birds Australia North Queensland (BANQ)

Newsletter

News

Coming Events

Past Events

Pied Imperial or Torres Strait Pigeon (Courtesy Ian Montgomery, Birdwayť)

ABOUT BANQ

Birds Australia North Queensland (BANQ) is a regional group of the national organisation Birds Australia.

The BANQ region covers a large area of north Queensland - from Ayr north to the Torres Strait Islands and west to the Northern Territory border. Regional contacts are based in Townsville, Mount Isa, Cairns, Atherton Tablelands, Mossman/Daintree and Cape York.

You can contact us by email or write to: Birds Australia North Queensland, PO Box 37, Belgian Gardens, Qld 4810. For more about Birds Australia visit the national websiteť.

Members receive our quarterly newletter Contact Call to keep them up to date with our activities.

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NEWS

Birds Australia Congress and Campout 2010

Townsville is hosting the Birds Australia Congress and Campout 2010. See the details on this website and on the Birds Australia website.

News Items:

Map added to Brochures page to show main districts referred to in the brochures.
Proposed Easter campout at Yourka Station has been postponed for logistical reasons (post-wet season access); Cooktown has been suggested as an alternative and a decision will be made at the committee meeting on 20 February.

Read the report on the Pied Imperial-Pigeon count at Mission Beach on 21 November 2009.

The theme and call for papers for the Birds Australia Congress 2010 have been posted: Details.

Events for 2010 have been added: put them in your diary/calendar!

Read the report on the joint BA and TRBOC outing to Pajingo Station, 23 - 24 May 2009

Read the report on the AGM 2009 Weekend in Paluma, 2 - 4 May 2009

20 May 2009: new links for Bird Tourism on Atherton Tableland and in Karumba added to the links page.

18 May 2009: new brochure on Charters Towers and District is available from Brochures page.

Details have been posted for the Carpentarian Grasswren Surveys in July and August.

Read the report on the Easter 2009 Campout at Mount Surprise

Read the report on the Shorebirds 2020 Workshop in Cairns on 21 March 2009 and subsequent Wave the Waders Goodbye

Read the report on the Australia Day 2009 Weekend at Kingfisher Park

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COMING EVENTS

February 2010

Wednesday 10 February: Shorebirds 2020 Summer Count, Cairns

Meet on The Esplanade opposite the RSL at 4:30pm. Contact Dominic Chaplin, Tel. 0419 028 077.

Saturday 20 February: Committee Meeting, Cardwell.

Starting at 10:30am at the Reef and Rainforest Centre.

Sunday 21 February: Shorebirds 2020 Summer Count, Lucinda

Meet in the car park at the jetty at 9:00am. Contact: Ivor Preston, Tel. 0439 062 640.

March 2010

Saturday 27 March: Wave the Waders Goodbye, Cairns Esplanade. Contact Alan Gillanders, Tel. 0408 953 786.

Preliminary session on identifying waders; register at 3:00pm in the Catalina room in the RSL.

Wave the Waders Goodbye: meet at 4:30pm on the Esplanade opposite the RSL.