2024 Grasswren Surveys

Call for volunteers 

BirdLife Northern Queensland will again be conducting surveys for Carpentarian and Kalkadoon Grasswrens in western Queensland.

This year’s surveys will be especially important as widespread wildfires swept through some of our grasswren populations on two properties to the northwest of Mount Isa, last October / November. However, preliminary mapping and on-ground checks indicate there are unburnt refuge areas. Are these sufficient to maintain and then restore the populations of both species? Our surveys may go some way to answering that very question.

Our plan is to start the surveys in the second week of May, meeting on afternoon of 7 May at a location just northwest of Mount Isa. We will run surveys for two weeks, with training day on 8 May, so finishing up around 22 May.

Participants need to be self-sufficient and able to camp supplying all their own food, water and fuel to spend…