The UTAS Avian Club are a community of bird watching enthusiasts committed to the identification, observation, and appreciation of Tasmanian birds.
17/01/2021
A successful outing with keen bird lovers today down in Lune Plain! Highlight amongst the beautiful buttongrass plain was an eastern ground parrot and the duck-billed orchid! Thank you everyone for joining us today! 📸 Matt
08/12/2020
Hey bird lovers! In recognition of the new research that there is potentially no more than 300 of the critically endangered swift parrots in the wild, there is a snap action in Parliament Lawns at 1pm! This is in opposition to the logging of habitat native forests and hope to end logging of old-growth forests altogether. Once a species is lost, they are gone forever. Hope to see you all there!
04/12/2020
Hi lovely birders! Where Where We**ie is doing a crowdfunding! Please consider donating to this awesome citizen science program that will help conservation of the charismatic and threatened Tasmanian subspecies of the wedge-tailed eagles. They only have 3 days left for the campaign and are a few k's short! If they don't reach their target, they won't get the support they need, so every bit of $$$ helps if you have the capacity! Please share this around to your friends, family and your network if you can! Thank you so much legends.
Where? Where? Website! by Clare Hawkins Making our website more accessible, so more people can help make a difference for our threatened species...The NatureTrackers programme coordinates volunteers and professional scientists to research & protect Tasmania's threatened species. Hundreds of people have now contributed surveys. Togethe
03/11/2020
Hey keen birders! Want to see swift parrots their habitats? Want to help a citizen science project to help conserve their habitat? There's an opportunity coming this Sunday to survey for swift parrots in their habitat that's current under threat from logging. See more details and register in the link below!
Wielangta Swift Parrot Survey Join fellow nature lovers, ecologists, borders, citizen scientists and community for a day of swiftie spotting in a threatened forest!
25/10/2020
Thank you so much everyone who came along today for a bird watching trip/rubbish pick up that also turns into orchids hunting and frog song listening session at Peter Murrell Reserve! Things we found: from microplastics to yellow threaded honeyeater to flying duck orchids to banjo frogs! What a lovely trip.
08/10/2020
From Dr Cat Young
"Some colleagues of mine are doing a survey on bin opening behaviour of cockatoos. Would greatly appreciate it if you could fill out this short survey for them.
It's really important for them to know where the behaviour doesn't occur so please fill it out even if you've seen cockatoos at home but never witnessed them opening bins. THANK YOU!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfvkgCX4n5SZ-_gG-CYabnMuxyVdy_ciOdFNLkiErTZWgs9ng/viewform?s=09&fbclid=IwAR2cW4VCfKa_gB8bhoDGSbyFq435G6efjUm1kdsKa5mOs5kd6JlxLghLTvc
Photo courtesy of Dr John Martin"
21/09/2020
Thanks to Inala Nature Tours for hosting us last weekend! 🙂
05/06/2020
On we are celebrating the majestic and endangered Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle, and the researchers working hard to protect them 🌏🦅
The University of Tasmania's Dr James Pay goes to great heights to attach tiny 'backpack' trackers on juvenile wedgies and receives constant text messages alerting him to the birds' movements bit.ly/UTAS_Digital-eagle-eye
UTAS School of Biological Sciences UTAS Avian Club Field Naturalists of Tasmania
22/05/2020
To celebrate the end of Semester 1 course work and to add a social event to our calendars, the UTAS Landcare Society, UTAS Avian Club and UTAS Biological Sciences Club are hosting an online quiz night! Check out event details here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1644513272371019/
Join in teams of up to 5 people using this link:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdKSJJVpfoc13s2emHTrESDMmgr6o6zeo4FWvIJL-eRDN_Geg/viewform
A zoom link will be sent out closer to the date.
Hope to see you all there!!
The UTAS Avian Club are an inclusive community of bird watching enthusiasts committed to the identification, observation, and appreciation of Tasmanian birds within their natural habitats.
We are committed to ethical bird watching practices which promote public awareness and respect of all native and introduced birds species of Tasmania, as well and the environments that they live in. All our activities will comply with the relevant 7 Leave No Trace Principles to minimise our impact in the birds natural homes (https://lnt.org/why/7-principles/).
The aim of our club is to share accurate and accessible information on the calls, characteristics, behaviours, location and habitats of bird species to further public education and recognition of our Tasmanian birds. All data gathered through the club will be recorded and made available to aid in further avian research and conservation projects.
We hope to share our avian passion with one another through organised bird watching trips, fundraisers and other events which everyone can participate in. Please keep an eye on the newsfeed for further details.