Please note the NEW VENUE for the Canberra Birds monthly meetings – DETAILS.

The meeting will start with the Launch of the Commemorative issue of Canberra Bird Notes (CBN), Vol. 50 No. 2: https://test.wpbutler.com.au/publications/canberra-bird-notes/.

CBN’s 50 volumes have reported research, bird observations and reflections on the birdlife of the Canberra region for 57 years. It has kept the local birding community in touch with wider trends and new information and has a potentially wide audience for a local journal. And while COG and CBN evolved from a strong professional scientific core, a key strength of COG and CBN has always been citizen science – structured, accurate, worthwhile and organised amateur science. This Commemorative Issue showcases the diversity and scope of CBN content over this period by republishing a selection of its wide range of research articles. The launch is an opportunity to hear how CBN has contributed to the knowledge and conservation of the birdlife in our region.

The main speaker will be Emeritus Professor Philip Gibbons from the Fenner School of Environment and Science at the ANU on “What we have learnt from 15 years of research on old trees in and around Canberra?”

Many of the mature eucalypts in Canberra’s landscape pre-date colonisation. In this talk Phil Gibbons will outline results from his group’s research on mature trees: their value as habitat for birds, threats to their persistence, the extent to which we can replace the functions of mature trees with artificial structures such as nest boxes and how to manage the threats mature trees pose to people and property in urban areas.