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Melton Environment Group Yes, I would like to join or learn more about Melton Environment Group. Name: ……………………………………………... Address: ……………………………………………... …………………………… ….. Post Code: ………….. Phone: Home ……………….Work …………………. Mobile: ………………………………………………….. Over 128 bird species make Eynesbury Forest their Email: …………………………………………………… home. It is home for increasingly vulnerable woodland dependent birds such as: Melton Environment Group Membership details (GST): Single/Concession: $10 Diamond Firetail Brown Treecreeper Birds of Eynesbury Forest Family $20 Southern Whiteface Speckled Warbler Corporate: $50 Zebra Finch Jacky Winter Grey Shrike-thrush Varied Sittella Yes, I would like to make a donation to MEG The endangered Speckled Warbler Warbler is $5 $10 $20 Other $ especially threatened by cats, as well as habitat destruction. How did you hear about Melton Environment Group? Melton Environment Group Inc. PO Box 481, Melton, 3337 No. AOO4OO49F A.B.N 47 411575097 President: Daryl Akers 0438 277 252 email: [email protected] Vice President: Doug Godsil President Daryl Akers 9244 8943 (bus hours) Meetings on 3rd Wednesday of the month at Don Over 160 species of birds have been observed in & Nardella’s office, Alexandra Street at 7.30 pm around Melton. Over 120 species of birds have been observed in Eynesbury Forest to date, with more Website: http://meltonenvironmentgroup.org.au/; species found each year. Blog: http://natureoutwest.wordpress.com/; Facebook: facebook.Melton-Environment-Group Photos by Nora Peters Join Melton Environment Group to learn more about how to enjoy local birds in Eynesbury Forest Stubble Quail Black Swan Brown Thornbill Yellow-rumped Thornbill Australian Shelduck Freckled Duck Yellow Thornbill Southern Whiteface Pinmk-eared Duck Wood Duck Australian Magpie White-browed Woodswallow Pacific Black Duck Australasian Shoveler Masked Woodswallow Dusky Woodswallow Grey Teal Chestnut Teal Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike Hardhead Australasian Grebe Varied Sitella Crested Shriketit Hoary-headed Grebe Australian White Ibis Rufous Whistler Australian Golden Whistler Straw-necked Ibis Yellow-billed Spoonbill Grey Shrike-thrush Olive-backed Oriole Nankeen Night Heron White-necked Heron Willy Wagtail Grey Fantail White-faced Heron Australian Pelican Magpielark Restless Flycatcher Little Pied Cormorant Little Black Cormorant Little Raven Jacky Winter Great Cormorant Australasian Darter Pink Robin Flame Robin Nankeen Kestrel Australian Hobby Scarlet Robin Welcome swallow Brown Falcon Black Falcon Fairy Martin Tree Martin . Peregrine Falcon Black-shouldered Kite Eurasian Skylark Little Grassbird Eynesbury Forest is a large old growth Grey Box Black Kite White-bellied Sea-eagle Rufous Songlark Brown Songlark woodland remnant approximately 288 hectares in Whistling Kite Spotted Harrier Silvereye Australian Reed Warbler size. It is home to over 120 bird species, several of Brown Goshawk Wedge-tailed Eagle Common Mynah Common Starling these endangered. Eynesbury Forest & nearby local Little Eagle Australian Crake Common Blackbird Mistletoebird woodlands Pinkerton Forest & Bush’s Paddock Buff-banded Rail Purple Swamphen House Sparrow Eurasian Tree Sparrow woodland, is a valuable refuge to these endangered Dusky Moorhen Black-tailed Native Hen Diamond Firetail Red-browed Finch woodland birds. The forest consists of large Eurasian Coot Black-winged Stilt Zebra Finch European Goldfinch numbers of ancient Grey Box trees, many of these Masked Lapwing Red-kneed Dotterel have large hollows, making them valuable wildlife Black-fronted Dotterel Common Pigeon habitat. Spotted Dove Common Bronzewing Crested Pigeon Galah Long-billed Corella Sulphur-crested Cockatoo Little Corella Rainbow Lorikeet Musk Lorikeet Purple-crowned Lorikeet Eastern Rosella Crimson Rosella Red-rumped parrot Swift Parrot Shining Bronze-cuckoo Horsfields Bronze-cuckoo Pallid Cuckoo Fan-tailed Cuckoo Eastern Barn Owl Southern Boobook Tawny Frogmouth Laughing Kookaburra Sacred Kingfisher Brown Treecreeper Superb Fairy-wren White-plumed Honeyeater White-naped Honeyeater Brown-headed Honeyeater Speckled Warbler The ornamental lake is home for an impressive Red wattlebird Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater variety of wetland birds. Australia’s most White-fronted Chat New Holland Honeyeater Regular bird surveys have been conducted by endangered water bird, the Freckled Duck, can often Spotted Pardalote Striated Pardalote Birdlife Australia for ten years, compiling an be found in the ornamental lake. Speckled Warbler White-browed Scrubwren extensive database of bird diversity here. Weebill Buff-rumped Thornbuill http://birdlife.org.au/; .
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