Go Birding

An exquisite flash of colour, a beautiful song, a fleeting encounter with a tiny jewel, a momentary escape into nature; just a few of the many things that everyone can enjoy simply by learning to see, and hear, the birds that are all around us.

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What's Happening

  • Easter Campout – Mary Seymour Conservation Park (SE) 360km

    Easter Campout: Birds SA EXCURSION TERRAIN DIFFICULTY: Moderate The 2024 Easter Campout will be held at Mary Seymour Conservation Park in the southeast, about 360km from Adelaide. Our last visit there was in 2019, and our return will provide an opportunity to also visit nearby Bool Lagoon, Big Heath and Glen Roy Conservation Parks to update the bird records for these locations. To get there from Adelaide: Take the M1 freeway to Tailem Bend and then the A8 to Keith, where you change onto the A66 and drive though Naracoorte...

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  • Myponga Reservoir (MLR, 63km)

    FIELD TRIP: Fleurieu Birders EXCURSION TERRAIN DIFFICULTY: Moderate (3km walk) Meet at the Hansen Street car park (main entrance) at 8:30am. TRIP LEADER: Edith St George BIRD LIST: Myponga Reservoir Reserve

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Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo

Sightings of small groups of these magnificent birds became increasingly common in suburban and rural areas after they learnt to exploit the cones of exotic pines as a food source. Their distinctive flight silhouette with a large rounded head, deep leisurely wing beats, and echoing “whee-la” calls make them easy to recognise. Although regarded as “Vulnerable”, large flocks of up to 200 birds or more may nevertheless be regularly seen in winter in the Mount Lofty Ranges.   Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos feed on seeds and insect larvae. They have learnt…

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Found an injured or sick bird?

Please contact:
Fauna Rescue SA
(08) 8289 0896 - 24hr Hotline
or your local Vet.

 

If you find an uninjured bird on the ground?

Leave the bird alone as the adults will be around to feed it.

Announcements

  • NEW DOCUMENTARY

    Birds SA has launched a documentary on coastal birds and off-road vehicles.

    Read press release (31/08/2021)

  • MANAGING CATS TO STOP WILDLIFE KILLS

    Birds SA releases its Cats Management Policy

  • BIRDS SA MERCHANDISE

    Support our Association when you are out birding or on Birds SA field trips, the products are of high quality at reasonable prices!

    Please note: Orders are managed by the supplier; Birds SA does not carry or handle the stock.

     


  • Important Notice: There is no birding access to Dry Creek or Price Salt fields until further notice.