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BOWERBIRD MONITORING WEEKEND

Sat, 23 Oct

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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.

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BOWERBIRD MONITORING WEEKEND
BOWERBIRD MONITORING WEEKEND

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…

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