An Introduction to Australia’s Birds
Australia is an ancient land, home to rocks more than 3 billion years old. Our First Nations people have one of the oldest cultures in the world, dating back at least 65,000 years, predating the modern human settlement of Europe and the Americas. It is a land of weird and unique mammals such as kangaroos, Koala and Platypus. It has many venomous snakes and spiders and even a venomous octopus. Much of our bird life is also unique, many of them more closely related to one another than anything overseas. They are found from the deserts to the rainforests, from the inland to the coast, from the warm waters of the tropics to the frigid waters of the Southern Ocean. This is an introduction to those birds and their habitats.
PLEASE NOTE THE DIFFERENT TIME FOR THIS EVENT. IT IS 1 HOUR LATER THAN USUAL.
Organizer
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.