Bird Banders' Association of Australia (1963 - 1976)

Summary

The Bird Banders' Association of Australia was founded in 1962 under the name (which was current for less than 12 months) Bird Banders' Association of New South Wales. Objectives included providing a means of contact and exchange of information for those interested in bird banding, and of ensuring that the process of trapping and banding birds was done without harming the birds or the environment. The change of name was to indicate the intention to be inclusive of people Australia-wide who were interested in the aims of the Association. In 1977 it was reconstituted as the Australian Bird Study Association to reflect the broader scope of the organisation.

Details

Publications of the Association include:

The bird bander: organ of the Bird Banders' Association of New South Wales vol. 1, no. 1 (July 1962) - vol. 1, no 7 (December 1963). [Issues to December 1962 were under the name Bird Banders' Association of New South Wales; later issues under the name Bird Banders' Association of Australia.]

Australian bird bander: journal of the Bird Banders' Association of Australia (ISBN 0004-8747) vol. 2, no. 1 (March 1964) - vol. 14, no. 4 (December 1976)

Related entries

Timeline

 1963 - 1976 Bird Banders' Association of Australia
       1977 - Australian Bird Study Association

Published resources

Journal Articles

• Llewellyn, L. C., 'A founder and father of the Bird Banders' Association of Australia: the late S. G. (Bill) Lane and his contribution to bird study in Australia', Corella, 36 (1) (2012), 3-11. Details