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May 2012

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Bruny Island Bird Festival

Bruny Island Bird Festival, Photo by Warwick Berry, Sea Eagle at Bruny Island, Tasmania

Location

  • Adventure Bay

    Bruny Island, Tasmania, 7150

Enquiry

  • Ph 03 6293 2034
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Event Date

  • (Biennial)

Opening Times

Entry Fee

    Disability Access

    • Contact operator for further details.

    A three day festival for bird watching enthusiasts on picturesque and flora and fauna rich Bruny Island.

    The festival will be opened with a BBQ, carvery dinner and live music.

    The highlight of the festival for bird enthusiasts are a range of bird watching tours around the island with expert guides and the rarely available boat trips to Pedra Branca, an offshore rock stack and major sea bird breeding area, and flights direct from Bruny Island to Melaleuca in the SW World Heritage Area, to see Orange-bellied Parrots.

    The festival also includes walks and tours, information sessions and opportunities to hear well known wildlife specialists speak and to chat with them about your own insights.

    Stunning images and artworks will be exhibited all weekend. There is a a market day, children’s activities.

    The full program is listed on our website.

    What Is On

    19 - 20 May
    Come and see hundreds of wild brown trout on their annual spawning run at Liawenee, Great Lake. Watch the trout being trapped and stripped of eggs for culture by staff of the Inland Fisheries Service.
    26 April - 24 May
    David produces photocopy images which are then rendered in watercolour or as screen-prints on a variety of different substrates. The resulting images resemble a diverse range of phenomena, such as the heavily saturated colours of an LCD television screen, glossy commercial signage, cracks in cement .