Birds
Australia Western Australia (Inc)
Perry House
71 Oceanic Drive
Floreat WA 6014
Phone : 08 9383 7749
Fax : 08 9387 8412
Email : birdswa@iinet.net.au
Web Site : http://birdswa.iinet.net.au
Office Hours : 9:30am to
12:30pm
Birds Australia WA is
the only organised birding group in Western Australia. They organise monthly meetings (8pm on the 4th Monday at
the WA Tennis Centre Burswood), frequent excursions and
camp outs, displays, research projects (e.g. Birds on
Farms; Hooded Plover Survey; WA National Parks Database;
Metropolitan Bird Survey), the bird guide brochure series, members library, slide library, etc. They
publish the excellent monthly Western Australian Bird
Notes. Every birding
visitor to WA should go to the office to obtain some of
the bird guides and purchase a booklet on birding
sites around Perth.
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Birds Australia
415 Riversdale Road
Hawthorn East Victoria 3123
Phone : 03 9882 2622
Fax : 08 9882 2677
Email : mail@birdsaustralia.com.au
Web Site : http://www.birdsaustralia.com.au
Office Hours : 9am to 5pm
Birds Australia is one
of the two national birding groups. They are centred in
Melbourne but they have regional groups around Australia. They publish the quarterly magazine Wingspan and the
quarterly journal Emu. They organise many national
research projects such as the Atlas
of Australian Birds, Birds of
Prey Watch, Nest Record Scheme, Threatened Bird Network,
etc. They operate four bird observatories including the Broome Bird
Observatory and the Eyre Bird
Observatory in Western Australia which are both must see
places to visit. Allan
Burbidge has some information
about the BBO
and the EBO
on his web pages. Birds Australia have purchased Gluepot Station in
South Australia as a nature reserve. They also have
special interest groups such as the Australasian Wader
Study Group, Australasian
Raptor Association, Australasian
Seabird Group, Birds Australia Parrot Association.
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Bird Observers Club of Australia
PO Box 185
Nunawading Victoria 3131
Phone : 03 9877 5342 or 1300 305 342
Fax : 08 9894 4048
Email :
boca@ozemail.com.au
Web Site : http://www.birdobservers.org.au
Office Hours : 9am to 4pm
BOCA is the other
national birding group. They are centred in Melbourne and
they also have regional groups around Australia, although
they don't have a direct presence in WA. They publish the
monthly magazine The Bird Observer and the quarterly
journal The Australian Bird Watcher. They organise many
national research and conservation projects such as the
Australian Bird Environment Fund, Threatened Bird
Network, etc.
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