Wave The Waders Goodbye 2026
Sun, 15 Mar
|Cairns City Library Meeting Room
This event is a great opportunity to farewell the birds and to learn about these visitors and other local shorebirds.
Time and location
15 Mar 2026, 2:00 pm – 5:30 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.
2:00–4:00 pm Guest speaker talks:
"Breeding biology of Beach Stone-curlews in Wet Tropics" by Paul Fisk. This talk will update us with more findings about Beach Stone-curlews in Wet Tropics.
"Cairns' place in the National Directory of Important Migratory Shorebird Habitat " by Sally Sheldon from BirdLife Australia.
4:30 – 5:30pm
Move to Cairns Esplanade for viewing waders.