This brochure is a joint initiative by Moreton Bay Regional Council and SEQ Catchments, and is intended, amongst other things, to improve the community awareness of shorebirds. It presents a challenge to the reader to understand, identify and help protect our shorebirds. It also contains colour photographs of all the 35 shorebird species that occur regularly in the Pumicestone Passage.

The brochure is available, free of charge, at many outlets, including the library and the information centre on Bribie Island. It can also be viewed on the Moreton Bay Regional Council Environment Page. Note that in order to enjoy the photographs fully, it is best to download the pdf.

Moreton Bay Regional Council's Shorebird Management Program, featuring this brochure, was a finalist in two categories in the United Nations Association of Australia World Environment Day Awards 2009. 

This booklet contains a systematic list of the birds recorded in the Buckley's Hole Conservation Park between January 1986 and December 2003. It also contains detailed first-hand accounts of how some of the rare birds were found, maps of the area, and general and historical information.

The booklet is now out of print but, in the light of demand, may be updated and reprinted in the future, or made available through this website as an ebook.

In the meantime, species added to the list since 2003 are reviewed in Buckley's Hole Additions.

This booklet outlined the plight of the many thousands of shorebirds, Eastern Curlews in particular, that would lose their high-tide roost when Dux Creek was developed in order to become a canal estate.

Subsequent discussions led to an award-winning partnership between various local groups and the developers, and the construction of the artificial Kakadu Beach roost site.

The booklet is now out of print.

 
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