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Birds
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North Queensland
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Welcome to the home page
of the North
Queensland Group of Birds Australia!
Latest update: 17
November
2008
CONTENTS
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Pied
Imperial or Torres Strait Pigeon (Courtesy Ian Montgomery, Birdway»)
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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 website».
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Newsletter
Members receive our quarterly
newletter
Contact Call to keep them up to
date with our
activities.
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NEWS:
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- 17 November 2008: The briefing for the Pied Imperial-Pigeon survey
will take place at 2:30pm on Saturday 22 November at the Dunk Island
View Caravan Park at Wongaling Beach, not at 4:00pm as previously
indicated
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- See the updated Cranes
page for the results of the 2008 Crane Count
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- See the November 22
calendar entry for information about the next commitee
meeting, the Pied Imperial-Pigeon Survey and the Christmas Party.
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- Revised versions of
the following brochures - to conform to the latest Australian list by Christidis & Boles, 2008 and other updates (10 March):
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- Revised versions of
the following brochures - to conform to the latest Australian list by Christidis & Boles, 2008 and other updates (21 February):
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- Read the article by
John Grant on
efforts to use satellite tracking on Sarus Cranes in the Gulf of
Carpentaria (21 February)
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- Karen Doyle has
volunteered to become the editor of our quarterly newsletter Contact
Call. You can email her on banq@birdsaustralia.com.au, phone her on 07 4723 2723 and write to her at
PO Box 1012, Thuringowa Central, Qld 4817 (16 February)
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- Revised versions of
the following brochures - to conform to the latest Australian list by Christidis & Boles, 2008 and other updates (14 February):
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- Revised version of Innisfail brochure (13 January)
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COMING
EVENTS
November
2008
Saturday
22 November: Pied
Imperial-Pigeon Survey, Committee Meeting & Christmas Party at
Mission Beach
This
year we are combining the Committee Meeting, the Pied Imperial-Pigeon
Survey and the Christmas Party. The Committee Meeting will take place
at the usual time of 10:00am on Saturday 22 November at the C4 Office,
next to the C4 Information Centre, on Porter's
Promenade in
Mission Beach. The Dunk Island View Caravan Park, 21 -
35 Webb Road, Wongaling Beach, has again been chosen as a suitable
place to stay on Saturday night and we will gather there mid-afternoon
at 2:30pm for the Pied Imperial-Pigeon Survey. After the
survey, gather in the lounge bar of the Wongaling Beach Hotel from 7:30
pm for the Christmas
party. The usual birding will take place on the Sunday morning. Please
book your own accommodation (vans, units, camping) at the
caravan park:
The
park has a pool and shop and is "pet friendly". Read the report on
the 2007 Survey for more
information.
January
2009
Australia
Day Weekend, 23 - 26 January, at Kingfisher Park Julatten
March
2009
Wave
the Waders Goodbye - Cairns Esplanade
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PAST
EVENTS
BANQ
took part in the
latest Crane Count on 4 October 2008»
Birding
report from Cardwell, 13 - 14 September 2008»
Birding
and AGM reports from Innisfail, June 21-22 2008»
BANQ
May Long Weekend at Mt Surprise, 3-5 May 2008»
BANQ
and visitors "Waved
the Waders Goodbye" on Cairns Esplanade, March 30th 2008»
BANQ
Australia Day Long Weekend at Kingfisher Park 25th - 28th
January 2008»
BANQ
Southern Christmas
Party at Hidden Valley on 17 November 2007»
BANQ
Pied Imperial-Pigeon
Survey at Mission Beach on 10 November 2007»
BANQ
outing Cardwell to
Kennedy on 9 September 2007»
BANQ
Outing to the
Southern Atherton Tablelands on 29 July 2007»
BANQ
was at the opening of
new Tyto Wetlands Interpretive Centre in
Ingham»
BANQ
was present at the
David Suzuki Presentation in Townsville»
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