Wave The Waders Goodbye 2025
Sun, 23 Mar
|Cairns City Library Meeting Room
The migratory birds that have spent the past spring and summer on our shores are just about to return to their northern breeding grounds.
Time and location
23 Mar 2025, 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm AEST
Cairns City Library Meeting Room, 151 Abbott St, Cairns City QLD 4870, Australia
About the event
The migratory birds that have spent the past spring and summer on our shores are just about to return to their northern breeding grounds. This event is a great opportunity to farewell the birds and to learn about these visitors and other local shorebirds which rely heavily on the quality feeding grounds provided by our beautiful Cairns Esplanade.
2:00–3:40pm
Guest speaker talks
Breeding biology of Beach Stone-curlews
Presented by Paul Fisk
The BLNQ Threatened Coastal Birds project 2019-2023 had a focus on the Beach Stone-curlew pairs around Cairns over 2019-2023. Using motion cameras and frequent field surveys we were able good information on incubation period, development of young, the timing of breeding season and breeding site fidelity. This information could improve our capacity to monitor regional populations.