Tania Ireton

Tania has been passionately interested in birds for half a century and used her day job in computing to fund her birding trips. These trips have taken her to New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Sumatra, Hong Kong, South Korea and New Caledonia, although her primary interest has always been Australia and its territories. She has been president of BirdLife Bayside (a branch of BirdLife Australia) since it started in 1996, and has led many of their outings, as well as giving talks to a range of conservation and natural history groups. She has a Graduate Certificate in Ornithology from Charles Sturt University and is also a member of the Victorian Ornithological Records Appraisal Committee which assesses and adjudicates on submitted claims of rare birds in the Victoria.