Meetings
Meetings are held at the Royal Geographical Society's Rooms, 237 Milton Rd, Milton (opp. the Railway Station, UBD 159 F11) on the first Thursday of each month except January. Doors open at 7:15 pm, the meeting starts at 7:45 pm with a short talk followed by notices and other business. This is followed by the main address. Following questions members are invited to raise further business, announcements or issues. Supper is provided after the meeting and a $2 donation is requested to assist with the cost of refreshments and hire of the venue.
Speakers calendar for 2010
February 4th: Dr Greg Anderson -'Birding on a Bus in Bhutan'.
March 4th: Christopher Sanderson - 'WWF Fauna Surveys in the oil slick in the Timor Sea'
March 25th for April 1st: Dean Portelli - 'The Australo-Papuan Babblers with an emphasis on Halls Babblers'. Over the past 6 years Dean Portelli has carried out research on a charismatic group of Australian birds – the Australo-Papuan babblers. Having first studied the behavioural ecology of the chestnut-crowned babbler for his Honours degree in zoology, Dean went on to commence a PhD on the lesser-known Hall’s babbler at the University of New South Wales. Dean's research on Hall’s babblers is broadly split into two streams: cooperative-breeding behaviour, and conservation biology. Babblers aside, Dean has been involved in numerous conservation projects across Australia over the past decade. Dean is also an avid birdwatcher having travelled widely across Australia in search of birds.
May 6th: Dr Leo Joseph - 'New and Not So New Ways of Looking at Evolution in Australian Birds'
June 3rd: Michelle Plant - 'A Review of Health and Behavioural Effects of Supplementary Feeding. A study in the Lamington Range'
July 1st: Dr Martine Moron - 'Conservation of the south-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo in an intensifying agricultural region'.
August 5th: Dr Justin Watson - 'Avifauna of the Torres Strait'
September 2nd: Ray Licence & Graham Anderson - 'Distribution and Ecology of Albert’s Lyrebird'.
October 7th: To be announced
November 4th: To be announced
December 2nd: To be announced
