BOWERBIRD MONITORING WEEKEND
Sat, 23 Oct
|Various sites across Wet Tropics
The BLNQ Bowerbird Monitoring project will count the number of Tooth-billed Bowerbirds calling along a selection of transects throughout the Wet Tropics.
Time and location
23 Oct 2021, 7:00 am – 24 Oct 2021, 7:00 pm
Various sites across Wet Tropics, Cairns QLD, Australia
About the event
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY
Birdlife Northern Queensland plans to set up a new long term monitoring project to count Tooth-billed Bowerbirds. Anyone can join in with this project and we will outline how you can help out to provide useful information, whilst enjoying a short walk birdwatching in the cool of the higher altitude forests of Far North Queensland.
Surveys
Tooth-billed Bowerbirds call reliably, loudly and repeatedly from the same court sites every year. The new project will count the number of Tooth-billed Bowerbirds calling along a selection of transects throughout the Wet Tropics. The idea is to see if there is any change to the number of birds calling into the future. Anyone can join in. A survey will involve a 1–2 km walk.
Volunteers can do this at any site they like either during the above weekend or really on any morning October – December during the period when Tooth-billed…