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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 in Brisbane Backyards program was introduced with a workshop for 80 participants in Brisbane in March, in partnership with  BIBY, BQ, BrisBOCA, SGAP and the Brisbane City Council.

Displays were mounted on World Wetlands Day, at the Maleny Wood Expo and the Warwick Peace Festival.

The Easter Campout was based in a Stock Route camping reserve near Biloela, with BAC members.

We have been involved in conservation issues involving the Oxley Common, Brisbane airport extension, Buckley’s Hole disturbance surveys.

We are partners in several C4C projects under application: SEQ Catchments’ Swamp Tea Tree Proposal, and Greening Australia’s The Bunya Biolink: improving the condition, connectivity and resilience of the Upper Brisbane River catchment.

Members took part in the Gold Coast Glossy Black-Cockatoo census run by the Glossy Black Conservancy, of which we are members,

On 30 May BASQ hosted the very successful Birds Australia Conservation Forum, themed ‘Reconnect (with) the Bush’.Therer were 100 registrations for the forum.

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 region

  • Brisbane City Council Land for Wildlife property surveys (with Birds Queensland).

  • SEQWater Biodiversity Corridor surveys around Wivenhoe and Somerset Dams, (with BQ and BrisBOCA).

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 their new website: www.stockroutes.info

Activities

Atlas surveys for various clients.
  • Ironbark Station – Australia Zoo property near Crows Nest.
  • Tarong Power Station. A follow-up of surveys by MT Templeton, (Sunbird 1992).
  • Black-breasted Button-quail IBA in the forests around Yarraman.
  • Bundamba Wetlands. Monthly surveys on the Sporting Shooters Association’s Stewartdale, the location of their rifle range. They are working on the rehabilitation of the wetlands.

In addition, the Armchair Twitch is an annual competition to observe the most species of birds from a fixed location. Results for 2008 posted here.

Albert's Lyrebird, Regular location of calling birds for the QPWS survey.

What's On

For a list of events in Southern QLD, please check out our website.

Contacts

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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.

alt Rosella Ramblings March 2009 (473Kb)
alt Rosella Ramblings June 2009 (540Kb)

Regional website

www.basq.org.au

 

Pale-headed Rosellas at a hollow
 Pale-headed Rosellas © Gl Porter


 

Birding at Hirstglen
Birding at Hirstglen near Toowoomba © Grahame Rogers

 


Rocky Waterhole
 Rocky Waterhole SW Qld © Bob Sutherst

 


Hall's Babbler
 Hall's Babbler © Dean Ingwersen

 

Major Mitchell's Cockatoos
 Major Mitchell's Cockatoo © Dean Ingwersen


 

Eyrean Grasswren
 Eyrean Grasswren © Dean Ingwersen


 

Budgerigars
 Budgerigars © Dean Ingwersen


 

Red Goshawk
 Red Goshawk © John Young
 
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