Geographic Range
We extend some 400 km down the east coast of southern Queensland from Bundaberg to the NSW border and west 1700 km to the NT border past Birdsville. The annual rainfall ranges from 160 mm in the west to 1850 mm in the east. If you have postcodes 4000-4470 and 4479-4670 you are one of our 690 members. This is a diverse area from the white dunes of the World Heritage Fraser Island to the red dunes of the Simpson Desert National Park. In between are beaches, mountains, and plains containing wetlands, heaths, rainforests, mulga and brigalow scrubs, grasslands, eucalypt forests and woodlands.
Latest News
Birds Australia Southern Queensland will be holding its second Annual Conference and AGM on 27th March. This year the venue is at the Ecocentre at Griffith University. Papers will be presented by students and researchers from universities in our region and the Queensland Wader Study Group. There will be updates on progress to save the Glossy Black-Cockatoo by the Glossy Black Conservancy and early results from the Oil Spill Project on Bribie and Moreton Islands. A GPS and mapping workshop is planned.
The 2010 Cotton CRC Calendar is based on the BASQ-sponsored publication Birds on Cotton Farms
Special birds of the region
Most special about this climatically and floristically diverse region is the great number (approximately 480) of birds found here. Species from the tropical north cross over with species from the temperate south. Some of particular interest include: Pale-headed Rosella (the group mascot), Red Goshawk, Pacific Baza, Black-breasted Button-quail, Albert's Lyrebird, Grey Grasswren, Eyrean Grasswren, Logrunner, Hall's Babbler, Paradise Riflebird, Russet-tailed Thrush.
Projects in the regionCurrent projects involve monitoring the clean-up of the Moreton Bay oil spill, and surveys of Brisbane City Council Land for Wildlife properties.
Conservation issues
A number of interested organisations have joined together as the Stock Routes Coalition.The Coalition is working to have the NSW and Queensland Stock Routes declared 'Protected Corridors for Travelling Stock and Biodiversity', managed by the current managers and adequately resourced with supplements from public funds. For more information, see the new website: www.stockroutes.info
Activities
BASQ members take part any many activities directed towards the Birds Australia objective of achieving conservation through knowledge. See the list on the BASQ activities page.
What's On
Rosella Feathers
This is a newsletter with details of current and future
activities. It is emailed to anyone who requests it. See latest issue.
A paper copy will be mailed to BASQ
members who do not have email, if an book of 10 stamps is sent to the
secretary to cover printing and postage for a year.
Coming events
Check the BASQ Events page.
Contacts
Convenor,
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Secretary,
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PO Box 224, CROWS NEST, QLD 4355
Conservation Chair,
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Publications
BASQ produce a quarterly newsletter Rosella Ramblings included in Wingspan, and an irregular email newsletter Rosella Feathers sent to those who request it.
Rosella Ramblings December 2009 Vol 6 #4
Rosella Ramblings September 2009 Vol 6 #3
Rosella Ramblings June 2009 Vol 6 #2
Rosella Ramblings March 2009
Vol 6 #1
Regional website
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Pale-headed Rosellas © Gil Porter
Committee Feb 2010 © Ross Smith
Rocky Waterhole SW Qld © Bob Sutherst
Glossy Black-Cockatoo family © Bob Sutherst
Major Mitchell's Cockatoo © Dean Ingwersen
Eastern Koel - summer visitor © Robyn Stratton-johns
Budgerigars © Dean Ingwersen
Red Goshawk © John Young
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