Eastern Bristlebird
 2011 welcomes a new term for Eastern Bristlebird and the Northern Recovery Project which is now under the Important Bird Areas Program managed in Queensland by BASQ. and in Northern New South Wales by the BASNA group. For information about the endangered Eastern Bristlebird and the history of the project see the Department of Environment and Resource Management website.
This year we are keen to continue accessing areas where no man (or birdwatcher) has been before. Participants are required to have a fair degree of fitness and walking ability – this elusive and very rare bird prefers terrain that is tough with steep slopes of thick vegetation. (Photo by Sheena Gilman) You may recognise the song, recorded by David Stewart of Nature Sound.
Survey dates: please contact Sheena Gillman EBB Coordinator Ph 07 3201 1982 or
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Brisbane City Council Conservation Partnerships
 This survey project is a joint 10 year agreement between Brisbane City Council (BCC), Birds Australia Southern Queensland (BASQ) and Birds Queensland (BQ). Members of BASQ and BQ access properties of selected members of Council’s Conservation Partnerships program, for the purposes of recording and monitoring the bird species present on the sites using standard Birds Australia Atlas protocols.
Some properties are surveyed in summer, autumn, winter and spring every year, and others for one year only. The first of these surveys occurred on 28 – 29 October 2006. Download more information on the project or .
If you’re interested in participating in this important project contact Dez Wells, BCC coordinator, 07 3886 8055 or
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Completed Projects
- Oil Spill Project: The oil spill occurred on 11 March 2009, when 250 tonnes of oil escaped from the container ship Pacific Adventurer and washed up on Sunshine Coast beaches, Bribie Island and Moreton Island. Moreton Island beaches were declared “clean” in May 2009 after a massive clean-up effort by 2500 people, with around 3000 tonnes of oil-contaminated sand removed from Moreton Island.
Birds Australia Southern Queensland received a grant from the Australian Government through SEQ Catchments to monitor the recovery of bird life on Moreton and Bribie Island, and to conduct workshops to train local people to participate. The first of four seasonal surveys took place in November 2009 and workshops in February 2010. The last survey took place in June 2010.
Details of the effects of the oil spill and monitoring methods used are available for download.
The results are reported in a paper by Dez Wells: Birds - Indicators of Environmental Repair in Oil Affected Coastlines (available for download). The data indicated that sites affected by the oil spill contained 50% less oil-affected species than sites not affected by the oil spill.
- SEQWater Biodiversity Corridor: SEQWater are restoring vegetated linkages between existing remnant regional ecosystems in the Brisbane Valley riparian corridor and the D’Aguilar Range biosphere. BASQ joined with Birds Queensland and BrisBOCA to conduct surveys around Wivenhoe, Somerset and North Pine Dams to establish baseline data. Fourteen 80 ha and twenty 2 ha areas were surveyed in November 2007 and March 2008. Overall 144 bird species were recorded. On average remnant habitats had at least twice as many bird species as severely disturbed habitats.
- Birds in Brisbane Backyards: A partnership of BASQ, Birds Queensland, BrisBOCA and the Society for Growing Australian Plants, funded by a generous grant from the Brisbane City Council, introduced the Birds in Backyards Program to Brisbane in March 2009.
- Lower Namoi Cotton Project: Biodiversity values assessment and regular bird surveys on 17 cotton farms. A joint project between Birds Australia Southern Queensland, Australian Cotton Growers Research Association and the Cotton Catchment Communities CRC. The book Birds on Cotton Farms: a Land Managers Guide is available for download.
- Cravens Peak Bush Heritage Reserve: Ten BASQ members took part in the Royal Queensland Geographical Society Scientific Study in April 2007. One hundred and nineteen species of birds were identified, 110 in the Toko Plain subregion and 69 in the Simpson-Strzelecki Dunefields. For more information.
For more information about completed projects, contact the BASQ secreatary:
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