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: 23 June 2009

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:

Correction and apology: the Shorebird Workshop and Count in Cairns is on Sunday 13 September 2009, not the 3 September.
The weekend of 21 - 22 November has been confirmed for the Pied Imperial-Pigeon Count (organizer: Trish Pontynen) and the Christmas Party at Mission Beach.
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 biwavailable 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

Plans and accommodation options for the AGM and Birding May Day Weekend have been posted: detailsť

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

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COMING EVENTS

July 2009

Carpentarian Grasswren Surveys from Mount Isa: First Survey - Monday 13 July to Friday 24 July; Second Survey - Monday 27 July to Friday 7 August; detailsť

August 2009

Saturday 15 August to Sunday 16 August: Malanda Weekend.

Saturday 15: BANQ Committee Meeting at 1:00pm; local birdwatching at 4:00pm; group dinner at 7:00pm followed by illustrated talk by Graham Harrington on his recent visit to Namibia.

Sunday 16: local birdwatching at 8:30am.

September 2009

Sunday 13 September: Shorebirds Workshop and Count in Cairns: 1:45pm

The Workshop will included training in wader identification and counting. Mentors are need to assist beginners.

October 2009

Saturday 3 October: Annual Crane Count

Saturday 31 October and Sunday 1 November: Annual Black-throated Finch Count

November 2009

Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 November: Mission Beach Weekend.

Saturday 21: BANQ Committee Meeting in the morning; Pied Imperial-Pigeon count in the afternoon (organizer Trish Pontynen); Christmas Party in the evening.

Sunday 22: Local birding.