The first day of the very first Toowoomba Birding Festival offered two walks in an escarpment park and two talks at the Queensland Museum Cobb+Co. It was a great day, attended by sixty people in total.
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2025 Toowoomba Birding Festival
All the event, location and ticketing information for the 2025 Toowoomba Birding Festival.
Our observer party trekked along the bridle trail below Tobruk Drive Lookout on the Toowoomba eastern escarpment this morning, compiling Birdata records for three 2ha-20 minute sites (previously surveyed by BSQDD) within a 500m radius search area. Conditions were quite good for birding and the tracks were easy walking, though we hoped for a little more sunshine to break through the cloud cover.
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Lockyer Creek
The first BSQDD excursion for 2025, held on 15 February, was a joint activity with Toowoomba Bird Observers at a private property beside Lockyer Creek in the Lockyer locality (between Helidon and Murphys Creek).
Main Range National Park is a massive national park in several sections, and is part of Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage Area. It is actually deceptively close to Toowoomba and we based ourselves at the Manna Gum camping ground, and surveyed a number of sites in the Goomburra Section of the park.
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Yarraman and Blackbutt KBA Areas
Key Biodiversity Areas is a global program strongly supported by BirdLife Australia (read more here); designations provide a focus for conservation effort but are not legally binding. For the past few years, the Darling Downs group of BirdLife Southern Queensland has been acting as Guardian for the Key Biodiversity Area described as Bunya Mountains and Yarraman KBA.
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McKnight Park
Surveying a new location is always fun, and that’s exactly what happened when we visited McKnight park on the side of the Toowoomba Range.
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Prince Henry Drive Park
Not deterred by overcast skies and forecast showers, an intrepid team of five members of BSQDD and/or TBO undertook the first systematic group surveys of birds in the lower section of Prince Henry Drive Park on 11 May 2024.
The Queensland Conservation Council is aiming to have Deongwar State Forest permanently added to the Queensland’s conservation estate before 31st of December 2024. To assist with this a bioblitz was held on April 27th.
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Prince Henry Drive
Today’s excursion at Prince Henry Drive was rescheduled from destinations proposed earlier, which proved unworkable at this time. As always, we enjoyed easy birding with the advantage of being able to look down on some tree tops.