BirdLife Melbourne

Bird Observation & Conservation Australia and Birds Australia merged to form a new organisation called BirdLife Australia on 1 January 2012. MELBOCA and the Melbourne Members of BA Vic Group came together to form BirdLife Melbourne, the Melbourne Branch of
BirdLife Australia

All BirdLife Melbourne members with a postal address that has a postcode within 50 km of Melbourne GPO (excluding the Bellarine Peninsula) are considered to be BirdLife Melbourne members

Join BirdLife Melbourne by joining BirdLife Australia. Click here to find out more about how to join BirdLife Australia.  There is no additional membership fee for BirdLife Australia members to join BirdLife Melbourne.

Note: All bird photographs on this website are of species that have been seen within 150 km of Melbourne

Taxonomy

English names for species and taxonomic order used on this website are now in accordance with Christidis & Boles 2008. If you spot any errors in names or order, please let us know.

What's New?

• We believe that the conversion of this website from MELBOCA to BirdLife Melbourne has been completed. However there may be some pages or text that have been missed. If you spot anything that requires correction, please email melbourne@birdlife.org.au with details.
  
  
• The BirdLife Melbourne Committee held their first meeting on 10 April 2012
  
  
• Eastern Treatment Plant Survey: Following the merger, MELBOCA/BirdLife Melbourne is now participating in the Eastern Treatment Plant Surveys that have been carried out by Mike Carter since 1975. For more details go to the Eastern Treatment Plant Survey Page
  
  
• Yellingbo Nature Conservation Reserve: Surveys have been carried out at the Yellingbo Nature Conservation Reserve fpr many years. Details of these surveys and some historyof the Yellingbo site can be viewed on the Yellingbo Nature Conservation Reserve Survey Page
  
  
• Australian Raven: How close to Melbourne are they?
  For more information go to the BirdLife Melbourne News Page.
  
  
• New photos for species seen on BirdLife Melbourne/MELBOCA Outings: Photos linked to species seen on outings have been added to and upgraded. They can be checked out by viewing the numerous sites visited on outings on the Recent Outings Page. Of the 269 species seen on outings to date, there are now links to photographs of 251 of these species.
  
  

Members' photographs on this website

All photos displayed on this website have been taken by MELBOCA Members.  We are gradually building up a library of photos to supplement the information on the website and assist with bird identification.  However, we ask all photographers who have good quality digital photos of any of bird species listed below, to please make them available for display on the BirdLife Melbourne Website.  Please contact Damian Kelly or Bill Ramsay, melbourne@birdlife.org.au if you would like to assist. If you have better photos of any of the existing photos linked to species we would also be grateful to receive them.

Photos are required for the following species, all of which have been seen on Recent BirdLife Melbourne/MELBOCA Outings: White-throated Nightjar, Fork-tailed Swift, Short-tailed Shearwater, Little Eagle, Grey Plover, Greater Sand Plover, Black-tailed Godwit, Little Lorikeet, Large-billed Scrubwren, White-throated Gerygone, Purple-gaped Honeyeater, Fuscous Honeyeater, Black-chinned Honeyeater, White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike, Forest Raven, Leaden Flycatcher, Satin Flycatcher & Black-faced Monarch.

Thanks to our many contributors we only need another 18 species to have all 269 species seen on outings to date covered.

The BirdLife Melbourne Committee thanks the following photographers who have generously made photos available:

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