Bird Observation & Conservation Australia

Bird Observation & Conservation Australia was established on 12 April 1905 by members of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU) in Melbourne, Victoria, as the Bird Observers Club. Although subsequently inactive for many years, in 1927 it was revived and has been active since. It publishes a quarterly journal, "Australian Field Ornithology", and a bi-monthly newsletter, the "Bird Observer".

It later expanded its name to become the Bird Observers Club of Australia (BOCA) to give itself a national rather than a local focus. In May 2007, at the Annual General Meeting, the membership voted to change the name of the organisation again to Bird Observation & Conservation Australia to "more properly present it and the work it does", while retaining the familiar acronym BOCA. Its head office is based in Nunawading (an eastern suburb of greater Melbourne) in Victoria, but it has sub-groups all across Australia.

References

* Hunter, Richard. (2007). Inside BOCA. "Bird Observer" 848: 4-5.

External links

* [http://www.birdobservers.org.au/ BOCA]