DOCSLIB.ORG

Nature Farmers

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Nature Farmers www.bushheritage.org.au Inside this issue » A Bush Heritage ecologist on a mission to save the red-finned blue-eye p.4 Bush Heritage News » Flying high at Yourka p.6 » In the spotlight: an elusive Spring 2010 grasswren on Ethabuka p.7 Have you ever wondered what it’s like to live and work on a remote Bush Heritage Nature farmers reserve? Karen Graham found out mma and Peter Ashton live a pretty different kind of Elife to most of us – they live on our Boolcoomatta Reserve, surrounded by vast treeless plains, silvery grey saltbush and prickly acacia shrubs. “There is such an incredible sense of space out here,” says Emma. “On a clear day we can see the curvature of the earth because we have a 180-degree view to the horizon.” The views might be incredible, but they are well earned – Emma and Peter spend their days working to control pests, such as rabbits and foxes, and to encourage rehabilitation and revegetation of native species including the vulnerable Murray swainson-pea. All this work is aimed at improving habitat for wildlife, including the yellow-footed rock wallaby. “I often refer to ourselves as nature farmers,” says Emma, “because we live in much the same way as any farmer but without the stock or crops.” Wildlife often visits the homestead, which Emma says is wonderful for their children Jarrah and Indigo, albeit a distraction to their School of the Air classes. “You have to admit, not many students have kangaroos hopping by or emus strutting outside the window,” says Emma. It’s an unusual place to call home, spectacular, yet often harsh and unforgiving. And it’s remote – 100 km from the nearest town of Broken Hill. But Emma and Peter Did you know? live here because they have important work to do to help Your support is making a difference on Boolcoomatta, where protect Boolcoomatta’s precious animals, like the plains- Emma and Peter have been hot on the heels of the feral wanderer and the dusky hopping mouse. rabbit population, with the help of two tireless volunteers. Emma and Peter feel privileged to have the support Wayne Lewis and Kim Ely mapped 1000 rabbit warrens of people like you. Your support helps them in their around the reserves in June, bringing the total number of daily tasks of weed control, rehabilitation and tackling warrens mapped at Boolcoomatta to three thousand. Rabbits feral animals. ■ compete with native species for habitat and cause erosion. Reducing their population is a key part of our conservation goals at Boolcoomatta Reserve. BOOLCOOMATTA RESERVE Thanks to the Native Vegetation Council for its support of rabbit control and other crucial conservation activities on Boolcoomatta. Dome Rock Pad at Boolcoomatta Reserve. Photo: Wayne Lawler 1 Bush Heritage News On country in Cape York Bush Heritage Ecologist Max Tischler flora found here make this an important recently spent a week with the area for conservation.” Max said. The Lama Lama Rangers, a group of ten Lama Lama is one of several language traditional owners working on country groups we are working with towards at Running Creek Nature Reserve on conservation on the Cape, and is a key Cape York. Thanks to Bush Heritage part of our partnership with the Balkanu supporters, Max was able to work Cape York Development Corporation. alongside the ranger group conducting Photo: Max Tischler preliminary ecological assessments that will help develop a conservation plan for the reserve. “Running Creek is a stunning part of the Cape and an area we’re very interested in helping to protect. The reserve ranges from coastal lagoons and estuaries to melaleuca swamps and messmate forests. The high diversity of fauna and Monjebup North Learning from the locals Bush Heritage’s Simon Smale learnt working areas. Results of the mapping, from Noongar elder Eugene Eades due to be released soon, will inform Bon Bon welcomes during recent cultural heritage mapping future plans for the reserve, such as on your newest reserve, Monjebup North. access and ecological restoration. “Our a visitor “Spending time with people who know work with the Noongar people focuses It’s a long journey to Bon Bon the land as well as Eugene’s people is on restoring country that in a more Station Reserve – for anyone. But just fantastic,” Simon said. “You get the intact natural state, sustained them for in June, Reserve Manager Glen scientific information, but woven through thousands of years.” Norris saw a visitor arrive after an that is the story of how the Noongar Photo: Anne Sparrow unusually long trip: seven years in moved in these landscapes and how they fact. In the still quiet of an outback managed their country.” Simon and the winter’s night, Glen gathered with team of archeologists found artefacts neighbours and Japanese scientists (like cutting and hunting tools), some in on a nearby property to watch the concentrated locations, which indicate arrival of a capsule, measuring 40 cultural sites like camping and tool- cm in diameter, from the Hayabusa asteroid probe, launched in 2003 with the aim of collecting samples of Enraptured with RAPS on Cravens Peak dust from the surface of the asteroid Itokawa. The capsule fell to earth Reserve Managers Mark and Nella it feels like we really do live in the around 5 km from Glen’s home at Lithgow have been listening to a new country rather than in a noisy city Bon Bon. “They tracked the capsule sound at the homestead on Cravens suburb!” Bush Heritage thanks the to Bon Bon and picked it up using Peak Reserve … the sound of silence. generous donors who funded the a helicopter,” says Glen. “We had The constant thud of the generator, system, and the group of volunteers helicopters flying around the area which previously ran sixteen hours who dug trenches, painted and built for days looking for other pieces of a day, has been blissfully replaced the shed to house the RAPS batteries. the spacecraft. It was amazing – I by the calls of birds like the chiming Photo: Nella Lithgow feel privileged to have witnessed wedgebill, which nest in trees not far such a landmark event.” from the homestead. The generator was replaced in June by a Remote Photo: Glen Norris Area Power System (RAPS), which in its first month saved about 1600 L Bluegrass grasslands, Carnarvon Station Reserve, Qld. Photo: Wayne Lawler/ECOPIXBluegrass grasslands, Carnarvon Station Reserve, Qld. Photo: Wayne of diesel and 4200 kg of carbon emissions. “It’s made such a difference to our quality of life,” says Nella. “Now 2 Watch videos, view stunning images and read up-to-the-minute news about Bush Heritage. Go to www.bushheritage.org.au Winter 2010 Running Creek What makes a difference to the working day of our reserve managers, partners and Around your ecologists around the nation? A little help from their friends – that’s you, our Bush reserves in Heritage supporters. Around the country, your support is helping our team to juggle the everyday work of protecting our wildlife and 90 days the land it relies on. Here’s a taste of how you Cravens Peak Ethabuka Goonderoo are helping around the nation. Nail tail spotted on Goonderoo! Bon Bon Ecologist Murray Haseler’s Goonderoo, the sighting is good eyesight came in handy a step in the right direction. “It’s on Goonderoo Reserve in a reminder that the population, late June when a small, boldly and the species, is critically Scottsdale marked macropod dashed by. endangered but that it’s close Murray quickly identified the by. We hope our work to restore characteristic features of a the nail tail’s brigalow habitat will Homecoming creature that he and former eventually encourage nail tails “So what’s the story?” was the question volunteer caretakers, the Olive- onto Goonderoo.” we asked the young male desert short- Prothero family, have pursued Photo: Bush Heritage tailed mouse (Leggadina forresti) when for many months: the bridled nail it turned up during a recent survey on tail wallaby. “I managed to get a Ethabuka Reserve. When research first clear view of this tiny kangaroo began on Ethabuka 20 years ago, this before it disappeared into the species was a relatively common capture. bushes,” said Murray. “The nail But for the past eighteen years, according tail was passing within 500 m of to the Desert Ecology Research Group the house!” Although there is not at the University of Sydney, it hasn’t been yet evidence of a population on seen. Until now. “We’re not sure where they’ve been,” says Max Tischler, Bush Heritage Ecologist. “It’s likely this species Loo with a view is strongly driven by rainfall. It maintains low numbers in small pockets of habitat A visit to the loo has never weeding and seed collecting.” Who during poor conditions and then erupts been such a triumph … twenty- would’ve thought the construction when conditions become favourable.” first century plumbing arrived of a loo could help protect plant We’re hoping our conservation efforts at Scottsdale Reserve in early communities like Scottsdale’s on Ethabuka, made possible by Bush June with the installation of a endangered box-gum woodlands, Heritage supporters like you, ensure new composting toilet, which its threatened temperate species like the desert short-tailed mouse was designed and built by a grasslands and the creatures are given every chance to fully utilise small group of knowledgeable that depend on them? ‘boom’ years such as this one, and have volunteers. “A loo might not sound Photo: Peter Saunders safe refuge during the ‘bust’. like big news,” says Volunteer Photo: Max Tischler Coordinator Heidi Fisher.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Canberra Bird Notes
    canberra ISSN 0314-8211 bird Volume 41 Number 2 June 2016 notes Registered by Australia Post 100001304 CANBERRA ORNITHOLOGISTS GROUP PO Box 301 Civic Square ACT 2608 2014-15 Committee President Alison Russell-French 0419 264 702 Vice-President Neil Hermes 0413 828 045 Secretary Bill Graham 0466 874 723 Treasurer Lia Battisson 6231 0147 (h) Member Jenny Bounds Member Sue Lashko Member Bruce Lindenmayer Member Chris Davey Member Julie McGuiness Member David McDonald Member Paul Fennell Email contacts General enquiries [email protected] President [email protected] Canberra Bird Notes [email protected]/[email protected] COG Database Inquiries [email protected] COG Membership [email protected] COG Web Discussion List [email protected] Conservation [email protected] Gang-gang Newsletter [email protected] GBS Coordinator [email protected] Publications for sale [email protected] Unusual bird reports [email protected] Website [email protected] Woodland Project [email protected] Other COG contacts Jenny Bounds Conservation Field Trips Sue Lashko 6251 4485 (h) COG Membership Sandra Henderson 6231 0303 (h) Canberra Bird Notes Michael Lenz 6249 1109 (h) Newsletter Editor Sue Lashko, Gail Neumann (SL) 6251 4485 (h) Databases Jaron Bailey 0439 270 835 (a. h.) Garden Bird Survey Duncan McCaskill 6259 1843 (h) Rarities Panel Barbara Allan 6254 6520 (h) Talks Program Organiser Jack Holland 6288 7840 (h) Records Officer Nicki Taws 6251 0303 (h) Website Julian Robinson 6239 6226 (h) Sales Kathy Walter 6241 7639 (h) Waterbird Survey Michael Lenz 6249 1109 (h) Distribution of COG publications Dianne Davey 6254 6324 (h) COG Library Barbara Allan 6254 6520 (h) Please use the General Inquiries email to arrange access to library items or for general enquiries, or contact the Secretary on 0466 874 723.
    [Show full text]
  • A Review of Lake Frome & Strzelecki Regional Reserves 1991-2001
    A Review of Lake Frome and Strzelecki Regional Reserves 1991 – 2001 s & ark W P il l d a l i f n e o i t a N South Australia A Review of Lake Frome and Strzelecki Regional Reserves 1991 – 2001 Strzelecki Regional Reserves Lake Frome This review has been prepared and adopted in pursuance to section 34A of the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972. Published by the Department for Environment and Heritage Adelaide, South Australia July 2002 © Department for Environment and Heritage ISBN: 0 7590 1038 2 Prepared by Outback Region National Parks & Wildlife SA Department for Environment and Heritage Front cover photographs: Lake Frome coastline, Lake Frome Regional Reserve, supplied by R Playfair and reproduced with permission. Montecollina Bore, Strzelecki Regional Reserve, supplied by C. Crafter and reproduced with permission. Department for Environment and Heritage TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF FIGURES ................................................................................................................................................iii LIST OF TABLES..................................................................................................................................................iii LIST OF ACRONYMS and ABBREVIATIONS...................................................................................................iv ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ......................................................................................................................................iv FOREWORD ..........................................................................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • Amytornis Modestus Inexpectuatus Thick Billed Grasswren
    NSW Threatened Species Scientific Committee Publication date: 15/05/2020 -14/08/2020 Notice of and reason for the Final Determination The NSW Threatened Species Scientific Committee, established under the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 (the Act), has made a Final Determination to list Amytornis modestus inexpectatus (Matthews, 1912), Thick-billed Grasswren, as an EXTINCT SPECIES in Part 1 of Schedule 3 of the Act and, as a consequence, to omit reference to Amytornis modestus inexpectatus as an Critically Endangered species in Part 4 of Schedule 1 of the Act. Listing of Species Presumed Extinct is provided for by Part 4 of the Act. Summary of Conservation Assessment Amytornis modestus inexpectatus is eligible to be listed as an Extinct species. The NSW Threatened Species Scientific Committee has found that: 1. Amytornis modestus inexpectatus (Matthews, 1912) (Thick-billed Grasswren) (Maluridae), is currently listed as a Critically Endangered species in the Act. 2. Amytornis modestus (North, 1902) (Thick-billed Grasswren) is one of 11 presently recognised species within the purely continental Australian genus Amytornis (Black 2016). Until recently the species A. textilis was recognised across Australia, however since 2010 the eastern and western populations have been placed in A. m. modestus (Thick-billed Grasswren) and Amytornis textilis (Western Grasswren), respectively (Christidis et al. 2010). A recent taxonomic assessment identified seven subspecies of A. modestus (Black 2011, 2016; Austin et al. 2013): five subspecies are extant - A. m. cowarie (South Australia [SA]), A. m. curnamona (SA); A. m. indulkanna (SA, Northern Territory [NT]); A. m. obscurior (NSW, far south Queensland [Qld]); and A. m.
    [Show full text]
  • Australia South Australian Outback 8Th June to 23Rd June 2021 (13 Days)
    Australia South Australian Outback 8th June to 23rd June 2021 (13 days) Splendid Fairywren by Dennis Braddy RBL South Australian Outback Itinerary 2 Nowhere is Australia’s vast Outback country more varied, prolific and accessible than in the south of the country. Beginning and ending in Adelaide, we’ll traverse the region’s superb network of national parks and reserves before venturing along the remote, endemic-rich and legendary Strzelecki and Birdsville Tracks in search of a wealth of Australia’s most spectacular, specialised and enigmatic endemics such as Grey and Black Falcons, Letter-winged Kite, Black-breasted Buzzard, Chestnut- breasted and Banded Whiteface, Gibberbird, Yellow, Crimson and Orange Chats, Inland Dotterel, Flock Bronzewing, spectacular Scarlet-chested and Regent Parrots, Copperback and Cinnamon Quail- thrushes, Banded Stilt, White-browed Treecreeper, Red-lored and Gilbert’s Whistlers, an incredible array of range-restricted Grasswrens, the rare and nomadic Black and Pied Honeyeaters, Black-eared Cuckoo and the incredible Major Mitchell’s Cockatoo. THE TOUR AT A GLANCE… THE SOUTH AUTRALIAN OUTBACK ITINERARY Day 1 Arrival in Adelaide Day 2 Adelaide to Berri Days 3 & 4 Glue Pot Reserve and Calperum Station Day 5 Berri to Wilpena Pound and Flinders Ranges National Park Day 6 Wilpena Pound to Lyndhurst Day 7 Strzelecki Track Day 8 Lyndhurst to Mungerranie via Marree and Birdsville Track Day 9 Mungerranie and Birdsville Track area Day 10 Mungerranie to Port Augusta Day 11 Port Augusta area Day 12 Port Augusta to Adelaide Day 13 Adelaide and depart RBL South Australian Outback Itinerary 3 TOUR MAP… RBL South Australian Outback Itinerary 4 THE TOUR IN DETAIL… Day 1.
    [Show full text]
  • REMARKS on the TYMPANIC CAVITY of MALURUS, STIPITURUS and AMYTORNIS (PASSERIFORMES, MALURIDAE) S
    SEPTEMBER, 1982 17 REMARKS ON THE TYMPANIC CAVITY OF MALURUS, STIPITURUS AND AMYTORNIS (PASSERIFORMES, MALURIDAE) s. A. PARKER INTRODUCTION THE AVIAN TYMPANIC CAVITY Mayr & Amadon (1951) and Keast (1961) In mammals, the tympanic cavity or middle recognized the subfamily Malurinae for a group ear is usually more or less entirely enclosed by of Australasian wren- and warbler-like genera, bone to form the auditory bulla (see for instance including Malurus, Stipiturus, Todopsis, Cheno­ Novacek 1977). In birds, however, it is usually rhamphus, Clytomyias, Dasyornis, Amytornis, merely a shallow concavity in the skull, bounded Aphelocephala, Sericornis, Acanthiza and Gery­ posteriorly by the ala tympanica (tympanic gone. Harrison & Parker (1965), chiefly on wing), a lateral flaring of the os exoccipitale, behavioural evidence, restricted the subfamily and ventrally by a much smaller extension of to include only the first five genera and the the os parasphenoidale also termed the ala Fijian genus Lamprolia, and used the term tympanica (Baumel 1979: 82, 88). In the skull Acanthizinae to cover the remainder. Subse­ of the Common or American Crow Corvus quently, Harrison (1969) redefined the Malur­ brachyrhynchos (Baumel 1979: 109) and in the inae sensu stricto, including Amytornis and ex­ skulls of all five Australian species of Corvus cluding Lamprolia (which latter may actually (including the Little Crow C. bennetti, fig. 4b), be a monarchine flycatcher fide Olson 1980). the exoccipital tympanic wing is not well­ Schodde (1975) raised the Malurinae of developed, providing little more than a posterior Harrison to the rank of family, the Maluridae, wall to a' quite open tympanic cavity. In the a move that emphasizes the uncertainty concern­ skulls of other Australian passerines examined ing the group's taxonomic relationships.
    [Show full text]
  • Australian Museum Train and Wandervan at Parkes, Are the Latest Developments in the Museum Extension Programme
    • - COVER: The Australian Museum Train and Wandervan at Parkes, are the latest developments in the Museum extension programme. (Photo: Checka Ward!Austra/ion Museum.) REPORT of THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM TRUST for the YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE, 1978 D. WEST, GOVERNMEN'I' PRINTER, NEW SOUTI-1 WALE5-1979 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The Trust and staff of The Australian Museum have pleasure in thanking the following organizations and individuals who provided financial assistance by way of research grants or donations during the year. Aboriginal Arts Board, Australia Council Drummond Credit Corporation Asian Studies Association of Australia Esso Australia Ltd Aquila Steel Co Ltd Or B. Goldman Australian Biological Resources Study Harris Daishowa Pty Ltd Australian Government Hoyts Theatres Ltd Australian Howmedica james Cook University of North Queensland Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies Mr H. Loomis Aust ralian Institute of Marine Science Myers Sydney Ltd Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service National Parks and Wildlife Service of Queensland Australian Research Grants Committee Peko Wallsend Ltd Bank of New South Wales Mr Peter Pigott, Sydney Beacon Research Co Pty Ltd Professor M. G. Pitman, OBE, Sydney Bernard van Leer Foundation Si ms Consolidated Ltd Bushell Trust, Sydney Sir John Proud, Sydney Conzinc Riotinto of Australia Ltd Roche Research Institute of Marine Pharmacology CSR Limited State Pollution Control Commission, NSW Caltex Oil (Australia) Pty Ltd Sydney Myer Charity Trust, Melbourne Commercial Banking Co of Sydney Ltd Tooth and Co Ltd Council of the City of Sydney Tooheys Ltd Dick Smith Electronics Unilever Australia Pty Ltd Further acknowledgments of co-operation are listed at Appendix 2. 2 THE AUSTRALIAN MU SEUM THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM TRUST PRESIDENT Professor M.
    [Show full text]
  • The Behavioural Ecology of the Thick-Billed Grasswren
    The behavioural ecology of the thick-billed grasswren Marina (Maria Carolina Johanna) Louter (MSc Biology) A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy School of Biological Sciences Faculty of Science and Engineering Flinders University of South Australia Cover image: Typical thick-billed grasswren habitat with chenopod shrubs at Witchelina Nature Reserve in South Australia, and (inset) a thick-billed grasswren (Amytornis modestus raglessi) in the hand. Photos by Marina Louter. ii Table of Contents List of Tables ................................................................................................................... vii List of Figures ................................................................................................................... ix List of Supplementary Material ..................................................................................... xi Thesis Summary .............................................................................................................. xii Declaration...................................................................................................................... xiv Acknowledgements ......................................................................................................... xv Statement of Authorship/Contribution and Acknowledgment ............................... xviii Chapter 1 General introduction ................................................................ 1 Behavioural conservation framework ...................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • 326 Index of Species Aus1ralian Bird
    AUS1RALIAN 326 BIRD WATCHER INDEX OF SPECIES The scientific and common names used in this index for Australian birds are those of The Taxonomy and Species ofBirds ofAustralia and its Territories (Christidis & Boles 1994) and of the Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds vols 1-4 (Marchant & Higgins 1990, 1993; Higgins & Davies 1996; Higgins 1999). Where synonyffis have been used in this volume for either scientific or common names they are shown in brackets. For extra-limital birds the names used are those of the text or where either scientific or common names have been omitted those of A Checklist ofthe Birds of the World, EdwardS. Gruson, Collins, 1976, are used. Minor differences in spelling, if any, have been disregarded. The species names are arranged in alphabetical order of genera. Only the first reference in any one paper is listed except where there is a tabular list, or lists, which includes the names of all birds mentioned in the paper, when this is the reference used. ACANTHAGENYS AMYTORN!S cont'd rufogularis Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater goyderi Eyrean Grasswren 28 11 ACANTHIZA striatus Striated Grasswren apicalis Inland Thornhill 204, 245 299 textilis Thick-billed Grasswren chryso"hoa Yellow-rumped Thornhill 244 303 ANAS inomata Western Thornhill castanea Chestnut Teal 297 222,247 Slender-billed (Samphire) Thornhill iredalei gracilis Grey Teal 248, 297 222, 247, 282 lineata Striated Thornhill rhynchotis Australasian Shoveler 302 222, 247 nana Yellow Thornhill superciliasa Pacific Black Duck 110 220, pl. 63 pus ilia Brown Thornhill pl. 29, 110 ANSERANAS regula ides Buff-rumped Thornhill semipalmata Magpie Goose 297 82 ACANTHORHYNCHUS tenuirostris Eastern Spinebill ANTHOCHAERA pl.
    [Show full text]
  • A LIST of the VERTEBRATES of SOUTH AUSTRALIA
    A LIST of the VERTEBRATES of SOUTH AUSTRALIA updates. for Edition 4th Editors See A.C. Robinson K.D. Casperson Biological Survey and Research Heritage and Biodiversity Division Department for Environment and Heritage, South Australia M.N. Hutchinson South Australian Museum Department of Transport, Urban Planning and the Arts, South Australia 2000 i EDITORS A.C. Robinson & K.D. Casperson, Biological Survey and Research, Biological Survey and Research, Heritage and Biodiversity Division, Department for Environment and Heritage. G.P.O. Box 1047, Adelaide, SA, 5001 M.N. Hutchinson, Curator of Reptiles and Amphibians South Australian Museum, Department of Transport, Urban Planning and the Arts. GPO Box 234, Adelaide, SA 5001updates. for CARTOGRAPHY AND DESIGN Biological Survey & Research, Heritage and Biodiversity Division, Department for Environment and Heritage Edition Department for Environment and Heritage 2000 4thISBN 0 7308 5890 1 First Edition (edited by H.J. Aslin) published 1985 Second Edition (edited by C.H.S. Watts) published 1990 Third Edition (edited bySee A.C. Robinson, M.N. Hutchinson, and K.D. Casperson) published 2000 Cover Photograph: Clockwise:- Western Pygmy Possum, Cercartetus concinnus (Photo A. Robinson), Smooth Knob-tailed Gecko, Nephrurus levis (Photo A. Robinson), Painted Frog, Neobatrachus pictus (Photo A. Robinson), Desert Goby, Chlamydogobius eremius (Photo N. Armstrong),Osprey, Pandion haliaetus (Photo A. Robinson) ii _______________________________________________________________________________________ CONTENTS
    [Show full text]
  • ACCOMMODATION ADVERTISEMENTS (Later Years Omitted) Aireys Inlet, Vic
    Bird Observer Index 1975-2011 A ACCOMMODATION ADVERTISEMENTS (later years omitted) Aireys Inlet, Vic. 1986/8.83, 9.95, 10.107, 11.113, 12.129; 1987/1.10, 3.22, 4.27, 5.41, 6.60, 7.63, 8.78, 8.80, 9.93, 10.105, 11.111, 12.129; 1988/2.22, 3.35, 4.47, 6.72, 8.88, 10.113, 12.144; 1989/1.12, 4.36, 6.59, 8.74, 11.112; 1990/4.36, 7.71, 10.99; 1991/1.9, 6.52, 9.87, 12.123; Ambua Lodge, Tari, New Guinea 1990/9.94 Ascot Park, near Bendigo, Vic. 1989/12.130 Barmah Forest Taragon Lodge 1985/9.95 Barnidgee Creek 1983/1.11 Barren Grounds Observatory Jamberoo, NSW 1987/8.78, 1989/5.45; 1990/3.14 Bellellen Rise, Grampians, Vic. 1986/1.11, 3.23, 4 35, 5 47, 6.59 Bellwood, NSW 1990/6.54, 9.95 Bemm River, Vic. 1986/4 35 Bendigo Area, Strathfieldsaye 1985/5.47 Bool Lagoon, SA 1989/7.68, 10.107 Bright, Forest Lodge 1983/1.91 Bright, Vic. 1991/10.106, 11.120 Broome, W.A. 1986/7.71; 1987/3.15, 4.36, 5.41, 6.52 Byron Bay Beach Resort, N.S.W. 1986/1.5, 3.23, 4.29, 5.47, 6.58, 7.71, 8.82, 9.95, 10.107, 11.120, 12.128; 1987/1.8, 3.14, 4.36, 5.41, 6.52 Byron Bay, Belongil Wood Resort 1985/9.95 Cape Liptrap 1983/1.11 Cape York Wilderness Lodge 1987/8.84, 9.94, 11.112; 1988/2.23 Capertee Valley, near Glen Davis, NSW 1990/3.22, 4.26, 5.45 Casino, N.S.W.
    [Show full text]
  • 2009–10 Conservation Report
    365 Days ANNUAL CONSERVATION REPORT 2009–2010 The sun rises over forested ridges at Yourka Reserve Photograph by Wayne Lawler / Ecopix 3 CEO’s Report “This year, images of our western Queensland reserves in fl ood have gone around the world. Our presence and profi le in the media has grown and our support base has increased as more of our supporters share the Bush Heritage story.” Doug Humann, Chief Executive Offi cer My fi rst view of the far-west Queensland property These changes refl ect larger changes in the of Ethabuka Reserve was from 6000 ft above the landscape under Bush Heritage’s stewardship. ground. It was 2002 and we were assessing the A recent report on our fi rst fi ve years of management 213,300-hectare property by light plane, in view at Ethabuka illustrates how our practical science of a potential purchase. The desert loomed as a and management is driving conservation outcomes: veil of red approaching from the dusty clay of the protected springs; reduced impacts of feral animals; Diamantina channel country. The dunes were and return of rarely seen fauna such as the desert devoid of vegetation following recent massive short-tailed mouse (read about it on page 17). wildfi res. The earth was parched, the cattle poorly At the same time we are building relationships nourished and an air of desperation hung over with partners, neighbours and collaborators: the the landscape. country’s traditional owners (the Wangkamadla In 2010 Ethabuka’s landscape tells a very different people, who’ve recently conducted cultural values story.
    [Show full text]
  • The Eyrean Grasswren Amytornis Goyderi in the Northern Territory
    MARCH,1987 57 THEEYREAN GRASSWREN AMYTORNIS GOYDERI IN THE NORTHERN TERRITORY J. R. COLE AND D. F. GIBSON In 1985 the Conservation Commission of the The Eyrean Grasswren is an extremely shy bird NorthernTerritory began a flora and fauna survey and difficult to observe. Birds were only ever seen ofthenorthern SimpsonDesert. In April 1985,the or heard on the Sandhill Canegrass-covered dune authors, who were members of the survey team, crests and upper slopes where the canegrass were investigating the salt lake system south-west clumps ranged to four metres in diameter andfrom of the Plenty River floodout. On 20 April at 24 0 one to two metres in height. They rarely ventured 09 IS, 1360 42'E an Eyrean Grasswren Amytomis from the canegrass and when they did leave it was goyderiwascaughtin a pit-fall trapset on the top of usually to hop very rapidly to another clump. One a large sand dune adjacent to a salt lake. The bird bird was seen apparently feeding on an openpatch wascollected andits identificationlater confirmed of sand at the base of a canegrass clump where it by S. A. Parker ofthe South Australian Museum. was hopping and plunging its bill into the sand. The specimen is lodged with the Central When flight was observed it was over short Australian Wildlife Collection (reg. no. CAWC distances, close to the ground and erratic. Rarely, B256). It is the first specimen collected in the bird were seen perching high up in canegrass Northern Territory and the first conclusive proof clumps or on low shrubs although one birds was ofthe species' presence there.
    [Show full text]