What’s your favourite hen species?
Any Cuckoo
What’s your identify, and the place do you reside?
Tom Tarrant, dwelling in Dayboro a small city 45 minutes north-west of Brisbane CBD.
Variegated Fairywren
What are the primary areas or areas you cowl as a hen information?
Higher Brisbane and Southeast Queensland (… additionally different areas of the State)
How lengthy have you ever been a hen information?
Practically 30 years
How did you get into hen guiding?
Was requested to point out abroad vacationers Regent Bowerbirds.
What are the facets of being a hen information that you simply like greatest? Which facets do you dislike most?
I take pleasure in exhibiting individuals birds that they haven’t seen earlier than. I don’t take pleasure in giant noisy teams (6 individuals or extra)
What are the highest 5-10 birds in your area that you simply suppose are essentially the most attention-grabbing for visiting birders?
Black-breasted Buttonquail, King Quail, Marbled Frogmouth, Sooty Owl, Highly effective Owl, White-eared Monarch, Noticed Quailthrush, Torresian Kingfisher, Mangrove Gerygone, Mangrove Honeyeater.
Black-breasted Buttonquail
King Quail
Marbled Frogmouth
Noticed Quailthrush
Are you able to define no less than one typical birdwatching journey in your space? Please briefly describe the areas, the important thing birds, and the approximate length of such a visit
Birding within the Moreton Bayside space round Wynnum-Manly, near Brisbane Airport and the Worldwide Cruise Terminal. Often 80-100 species inside a day right here, together with Mangrove Gerygone, Mangrove Honeyeater, Torresian Kingfisher, numerous crakes, rails and bitterns
Two or extra day journeys to O’Reilly’s Rainforest Retreat, Lamington NP, Albert’s Lyrebird, Regent Bowerbird, Paradise Riflebird, and lots of different rainforest species.
Day journey to D’Aguilar Nationwide Park, Eucalyptus and rainforest woodland Regent Bowerbird, Paradise Riflebird, Bell Miner, Noticed Quailthrush, Pacific Baza, Gray Goshawk.
What different ideas are you able to give to birders enthusiastic about your space? (for instance, what to convey, which season to decide on, and so on.)
Springtime in SE Qld is September to December, the most effective time for migrants and normally pleasantly heat, December to March could be scorching and humid, early mornings and late-afternoon optimum time for birding. April to August is winter, which is normally dry and funky however hardly ever chilly, it’s a good time for a visit to the western districts for the desert species and parrots.
Pale-headed Rosella
If any reader of 10,000 Birds is enthusiastic about birding with you, how can they greatest contact you?
I’ve an internet site at www.australiainthewild.com and am lively on Fb, Mastodon, and Whatsapp (underneath Aviceda).
What else would you prefer to share with the readers of 10,000 Birds?
A pal of mine runs month-to-month pelagic journeys from Southport on the Gold Coast for one-day or 4-day journeys additional out, these are normally closely booked upfront however I could possibly reserve locations if dates required are identified upfront.
