• Publications

• Gang-gang Newsletter
• Canberra Bird Notes
  • Using the Canberra Bird Notes search facility
• Birding Location Brochures and Bird Routes
• Birds of Canberra Gardens Book
  • A Canberra Bird Garden
    • Position
    • Structure
    • Using Local Plants
    • Food
    • Putting Out Food
    • Water
    • Nesting and Nest Boxes
    • Some Recommended Plants
  • About the Birds of Canberra Gardens Book
    • Foreword
    • Acknowledgements
    • Dedication
    • Introduction
  • Some Conservation Issues
  • The COG Gardenbird Survey
    • The Garden Bird Survey Year
    • Weather
• Bird calls and songs CD
• Pocket Guide to the Birds of Canberra
  • About the Pocket Guide
  • Jerrabomberra Wetlands (inc. Kelly Swamp and Sewage Ponds)
  • Campbell Park
  • Australian National Botanic Gardens
  • Woodlands, Suburbs, City and Lakes
• Backyard Birds of Canberra poster
• Email Discussion List (Chatline)
• Maps, Forms and Lists
  • Campbell Park Map
  • Fyshwick Sewage Ponds
  • Kama Bird List
  • Kellys Swamp
  • View from Cygnus Hide, Kellys Swamp
  • Using COG’s data
  • Annotated Checklist of the Birds of the ACT – November 2017
• Other Resources
  • Canberra Birds monthly meeting location

COG Maps

Map showing the COG Area of Interest (AoI) 
Map of the ACT with the COG grid : The map features the ACT border, COG grid, roads, drainage, place names.
COG grid data/shape files (100 Kb ZIP file): This zipped file contains two versions of the COG grid, for GIS users.

Some Maps and Views of Favourite Birding Locations

Campbell Park
Kellys Swamp
View from Cygnus Hide, Kellys Swamp
Fyshwick Sewage Ponds
Callum Brae and Jerrabomberra Grasslands – area map
Callum Brae Nature Reserve
Jerrabomberra Grasslands Nature Reserve

Canberra Nature Park maps 

The ACT Government (currently the Parks and Conservation Service) often provide useful online maps showing the boundaries and context of the various reserves and parks that make up Canberra Nature Park. Finding them can be tricky because their online location and presentation changes as often as the Government Directorates are reshuffled.  In October 2025 the maps of most or all reserves can be found via the following link (scroll to the bottom of each Reserve page and expand the map):

Canberra Nature Park online maps

Forms

COG Observation Record form (581 Kb PDF file)
COG Incidental Record form (16 Kb PDF file)
Unusual Bird Report form (48 Kb MS Word file) (Check Rarities List first!)
Donation Form in Word Format (29Kb)
Donation Form in PDF Format (43Kb)
Membership Application Form in Word Format (fill out electronically and email)
Membership Application Form in PDF Format (print out and post)
Field Trip Registration Form
Application form to use COG’s data

Lists

Annotated Checklist of the Birds of the Australian Capital Territory

This checklist is based on Birds of the ACT: Two Centuries of Change by Steve Wilson OAM, published by the Canberra Ornithologists Group, Canberra, 1999. The Checklist covers 286 species.

List of ‘unusual’ birds as at May 2013

Basically a list of species which have fewer than ten endorsed records of probably different birds in the previous ten years in the ACT. NOTE: for full description of the selection process see Canberra Bird Notes, June 2013 pp 186-187

List of ‘unusual’ birds as at August 2020