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: 28 November 2008

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:

See Coming Events for the activities planned for the first half of 2009

17 November 2008: The Redden Island Brochure has been updated to include Comb-crested Jacana

See the updated Cranes page for the results of the 2008 Crane Count

Read the report on birding at Serpentine Lagoon on Saturday 21 September

New brochures for the Mount Isa District and Mount Surprise in Northwestern Queensland have been added (23 September 2008) More informationť

Read the report on birding at Cardwell on the weekend of 13 - 14 September

Birding and AGM reports from Innisfail, June 21-22

Read the report of a great May long weekend at Mount Surprise

Report and bird list for this year's succesful "Wave the Waders Goodbye" event on the Cairns Esplanade, March 30th

Read the report of a very successful Australia Day weekend at Kingfisher Park, Julatten

Brand new brochure on Lake Eacham (10 March)

Revised versions of the following brochures - to conform to the latest Australian list by Christidis & Boles, 2008 and other updates (10 March):

North Queensland Species List

Atherton Tableland

Revised versions of the following brochures - to conform to the latest Australian list by Christidis & Boles, 2008 and other updates (21 February):

Cardwell District

Ingham District

Read the article by John Grant on efforts to use satellite tracking on Sarus Cranes in the Gulf of Carpentaria (21 February)

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)

Revised versions of the following brochures - to conform to the latest Australian list by Christidis & Boles, 2008 and other updates (14 February):

Birds of Cairns Gardens

Townsville District

Weipa

Hasties Swamp

Cairns Foreshore Migrants

Lake Morris

Birding around Cairns

40 Mile Scrub

Eubenagee Swamp

Atherton Town

Lake Barrine

Revised versions of Redden Island and Yorkeys Knob brochures (3 February)

Revised version of Pelican Point brochure (30 January)

Revised version of Innisfail brochure (13 January)

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COMING EVENTS

January 2009

Australia Day Weekend, 23 - 26 January, at Kingfisher Park Julatten.

This is the 10th year running for this now traditional BANQ get-together on the Australia Day Weekend at Kingfisher Park. There will be the usual field trips and the communal bring-a-plate dinner on the Saturday, when Cliff Frith will speak on 'Mad. Birds - Portrait of Madagascan Birds'. A 10th anniversary dinner is planned for the Friday night at the nearby Highlander Restaurant ($25 for 3 courses) if there is enough interest: please email sootyowl@bigpond.com or phone 07 4094 1263.