Video of latest meetings

A Year and a Day in the Life of Powerful Owls

A Walk on the Garden:

Myall Park Botanic Bush Gardens

President’s Introduction

Merlin Sound ID in Australia

Who knows where birdwatching will lead?

President’s Introduction

Volunteers wanted for Pied Currawong nest watch

What are Australia’s least known birds, and what are we doing to address this?

President’s Introduction

What Baby Bird is That?

“There are no Wrens in Australia!” – Taxonomy of Queensland’s birds based on AviList, a unified global checklist of the world’s birds.

President’s Introduction

The Albert’s Lyrebird: a natural and social history

Call the Bird Police! – eBird from the perspective of a state-wide eBird reviewer.

Birds and windfarms in Queensland – what we do and don’t know

President’s Introduction

Global- to local-scale seabird connectivity for understanding ecology and improving conservation outcomes.

The annual photoshow of images from BQ members for 2025.

Annual General Meeting 2025 – President’s Report

Treasurer’s Report to the 2025 AGM for Birds Qld

Election for 2026

Meeting Introduction and Twitchathon presentation

Orchard Road farm Dam, a dam site worth saving

Update on the current state of Avian Influenza in Australia

Meeting Introduction

How does fire history influence critical feed trees of the vulnerable Glossy Black Cockatoo?

WWW – WadersWorldWide, plus something local!

President’s Introduction to the September meeting

Beyond species counts: What global waterbird trends tell us about wetland health

Eavesdropping on cryptic species: Are there any Eastern Bristlebirds left in Queensland?

President’s Introduction to the August meeting

Mental wellbeing benefits of nature: economic value, duration of benefit, equity of access and implications for conservation.

Into the frying pan – long term citizen science project reveals the impacts of a changing climate on semi-arid zone bird assemblages.

President’s Introduction to the July meeting

What does it take to Save a Species?

Shy albatross and planning for climate change

President’s Introduction to the June meeting

Beach Birds

Pheasants, cranes and real babblers: birding Southeast China in winter

The meeting introduction by the President

The interconnection of Country, Culture and Birds – an Indigenous perspective

Deep Listening to Nature

The meeting introduction by the President

Looking for orts and other tales: using bird data to inform land-use decisions and planning in south-east Queensland

What happens to the birds when Oxley Creek Common floods?

When and how to conduct drone-based bird surveys

Dull, dreary urban planning results in dull, dreary bird communities

The meeting introduction by the President

The  2024 AGM for Birds Qld, including presentation of the Jiro Kikkawa Award

The Annual Photoshow

Introduction and Twitchathon presentation

Put a Bird on it! – Birds and Artmaking.

Feeding the Birds: Why is Australia different?

Meeting Introduction

Invasive Ants, the threat to birdlife and the ecology

Plains-wanderers in Queensland: marginal habitat or critical refuge?

Meeting Introduction

The ecology of the Black-throated Finch.

Birds Queensland in the Channel Country, 2013-2024.

Meeting Introduction

Environmental DNA detection of a threatened ground-nesting bird.

Bird flu – what does it mean for birds and people?

Meeting Introduction

Level-up urban conservation by increasing vegetation complexity

Tubenoses in the Coral Sea off Queensland – identification, abundance and phenology

The conundrum of cats in Australia

Tracking the Australian Painted-snipe, a wetland enigma

Road Ecology

Ecoacoustic monitoring of the endangered Pink Cockatoo in semi-arid Eastern Australia: insights into spatial and temporal patterns

Update on the EPBC Act reforms and Toondah Harbour

Australia’s Threatened Bird Index: what does the 2023 update tell us about population trends for our threatened birds?

Meeting Introduction

Are Black-faced Woodswallows (Artamus cinereus) indicators for other birds – such as the Black-throated Finch (Poephila cincta cincta)?

Owls and their ability to control rodents

Big changes in Australia’s backyard birds

Birdlife Australia’s Urban Bird Conservation Action Plan

The Birds Queensland 2023 Annual General Meeting

The Birds Queensland 2023 Annual Photoshow

Introduction and Twitchathon presentation

Cultural Evolution – Studying birdsong from Queensland and the Galapagos

Powerful Owls and Owl Detecting in Suburban Brisbane

The Vice-President’s Meeting Introduction

Avian sex skews – considerations and applications for the conservation management of birds

Australia’s Resident Waders  plus intergradation between the masked lapwing subspecies.

The Vice-President’s Meeting Introduction

Testing Methods for Detecting Hard-to-Detect Birds

More than weather: How radar can help us with birding and understanding bird migration

The Vice-President’s Meeting Introduction

Unexpected Pathogen Diversity Detected in Australian Avifauna Highlights Potential Biosecurity Challenges

Acoustic Occupancy Monitoring of Threatened Glossy Black Cockatoos in Bushfire-Affected South-East Queensland

The Meeting Introduction

The Pleasures and Challenges of Birdlistening

Birding the Columbian Andes

Bird Friendly Building Design in Australia

The Meeting Introduction

A Virtual Birding Tour

Raptor Identification in flight

Quiztime: What bird is that & which one is the odd one out?

Shorebirds and climate change: The time for action is now!

The meeting introduction.

Unlocking the secrets of bird migration in Australia

Acoustic partitioning and subspecies divergence of Australasian Treecreepers

President’s Introduction

Citizen Science for Bird Conservation in Queensland

A quest to save a rare owl of our tropical woodlands: The Northern Masked Owl

Birds Qld Annual Photoshow

The 2022 Annual General Meeting for Birds Queensland

Meeting introduction and presentation of Twitchathon winners.

The importance of protected and adjacent unprotected areas for feeding and roosting in migratory shorebirds.

A Summary of the Australian Wildlife Conservancy’s (AWC’s) Science Program at Bowra Wildlife Sanctuary

A Bird’s Eye View of the History of Fairfield, 4103, Queensland

Raptor monitoring techniques: a global review and South East Queensland comparison

Contestations between human and avian mobilities around Moreton Bay and throughout the East Asian-Australasian Flyway

Introduction to the new Birds Queensland website

The Macaulay Library: A Collection for Science and Conservation

Norfolk Island: its origins and the critical importance of birds in its ecosystems

More Australian Brushturkeys for greater Brisbane

How do we plan for species conservation considering climate change? A case study of cockatoos

Meeting Introduction

Birding at the tip of Cape York

Long term Trends of Birds in the Cowra District, central Western Slopes, NSW

Rehabilitation, recovery and release. Do rehabilitated coastal raptors survive?

Meeting Introduction

The President’s introduction.

Birding in the Russian Far East

Conservation of Palm Cockatoos in Australia

Mistletoes, their relevance to Australian Birds and vice versa!

Finding Queensland’s Biodiversity: A QOSI bus trip in 1992

Birds Queensland Annual General meeting for 2021, including president’s address, Treasurer’s report and voting

Birds Qld Annual Photoshow

President’s Introduction

Birds of Bimblebox in a Habitat Under Siege – an Overview

From Cupboard to Conservation: How a library of animal specimens at the Queensland Museum contributes to knowledge about our native fauna.

President’s Introduction

Local Level Governance for the Conservation of Migratory Shorebirds: A Study of Two Queensland Ramsar Sites

A Birding Trip on the Malaysian Peninsula

Glossy Black-Cockatoo Research at the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC) and the role of Citizen Scientists

Destination Iwo Jima: A Virtual Voyage off Japan to See Island Endemics and Seabirds

President’s Introduction

2019 AGM including reports from President and Treasurer

2019 Annual Photoshow

President’s Introduction

An unusual bird of South-East Queensland / North-East New South
Wales, The “Rawnsley’s Bowerbird”

The importance of satellite tracking in the conservation of the endangered Far Eastern Curlew

President’s Introduction

How sex determination and sex skews can make or break a bird population

Reviewing the evidence: – is conservation helping woodland birds and do grazing exclusion and replanting benefit Australian woodland birds? A case study from south eastern Australia

President’s Introduction

Sundown National Park

A Photographic guide to Birds of Outback Queensland

President’s Introduction

Some Birds of Madagascar

The Secret Socials of Yellow Robins

President’s Introduction

The Birds of Fernberg

The Paradise Parrot – Some Reflections on the Centenary of its Discovery

President’s Annual Report

Treasurer’s Annual Report

Annual Photoshow

President’s Introduction

Silvester Diggles, Early Qld Naturalist

Environmental Impact Assments for Threatened Birds in Qld.

President’s Introduction

Macquarie Island

Common Wildlife Presentations seen at Brisbane Bird Vet

President’s Introduction

What’s needed to find elusive birds by song to save them.

Navigating Coasts of Concrete: Conserving Shorebirds in Human-Dominated Landscapes

President’s Introduction

Habitat loss affects common species too

Honeyeaters – What we know and what we don’t know

President’s Introduction

Conservation Biogeography of the Red Goshawk

Regent Honeyeaters and Swift Parrots – an update from BirdLife Australia

President’s Introduction

Respiration in Birds

Raptors: An Ornithological and Bibliographical Journey

President’s Introduction

Bird Photography 101

Has 30 years of Counting Shorebirds in Moreton Bay Improved Conservation?

President’s Introduction

Welford National Park Expedition 2019

Birdwatching with Alec Chisholm

President’s Introduction

Australia’s new Threatened Bird Index.

Australia’s diminishing soundscape: countering the collapse of Australia’s woodland bird community

President’s Introduction

Little Gos

The Modern Outback: The rise of large scale conservation in remote Australia