Good morning COG/Canberra Birds members and chat line subscribers, a reminder that our March monthly will be held tomorrow evening Wednesday 11 March from 7:30 pm.
This is also another reminder that there has been a change in venue
as detailed in bold red below.
Also, chairs will need to be set up before the meeting and put away after.
Everyone is welcome so please come along to hear how
Canberra Bird Notes has contributed to the knowledge and conservation of the birdlife in our region, as well as to learn about important research on old trees in Canberra, including their value as habitat for birds.
You will also be able to enjoy a cup of tea or coffee after the meeting.
Jack Holland
Speakers for the March meeting will be:
Launch the Commemorative issue of
Canberra Bird Notes
Philip Gibbons -
What we have learnt from 15 years of research on old trees in and around Canberra?
Temporary change of meeting venue for Canberra Birds
The Canberra Birds committee has decided to change the venue for our monthly members' meetings, at least until renovations of the Canberra Girls Grammar School’s
Multi-media Theatre are complete, expected in August/September 2026.
The new venue is the Bugang Room at the Denman Village Community Centre, located at 5 Felstead Vista, adjacent to the Denman Prospect shops (see Google Maps
link https://maps.app.goo.gl/NqW3XrN5iJf8dzRe9)
This is a light, spacious, modern event venue with a kitchen. There is plentiful parking, under lights, close to the door and with several disabled parking spots outside the
door. The room is on the first floor, accessed by two flights of stairs or by a lift.
To help guide you once there the Canberra Birds Sandwich Boards will be outside the front door and at the top of the stairs/lift.
For people attending the meeting by public transport, the R10 bus provides a very good service around every 15 minutes from the ANU through Civic to the Denman Prospect shops
with the bus stop opposite the venue. For example, a bus runs to there from 6:57 to 7:23 pm and return buses at 9:05 or 9:35 pm arriving at the ANU at 9:31 and 10:01 pm, respectively.
The meeting will start with the
Launch the Commemorative issue of Canberra Bird Notes (CBN), Vol. 50 No. 2:
https://canberrabirds.org.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.
