The OBP season here on the mainland has come to an end for 2019. With the last count weekend in September, and other field work earlier this month, we are wrapping up efforts for the Orange-Bellied Parrot Recovery Program this year. Volunteers and NGT staff searched...
Sometimes we have to remind ourselves how lucky we are to be living and working in such a beautiful part of the world. To me this is most apparent when out in the field searching for the elusive Orange-bellied Parrot. This is my third season of...
NGT spent a few sunny days in the salt-marshes of south west Victoria collecting Beaded Glasswort (Sarcocornia quinqueflora) seeds. These tiny seeds will hopefully provide some valuable information towards the ongoing research supporting the Orange-bellied Parrots in their fight against extinction. Many hours were spent collecting...
Avocado seeds are big, sunflower seeds a bit smaller, but for Neophema parrots, food seeds are rather small. The Orange-bellied Parrot (Neophema chrysogaster) feeds on the seeds of Beaded Glasswort (Sarcocornia quinqueflora); seeds just over 1 mm long. [caption id="attachment_33902" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Beaded Glasswort seeds from...
Are you interested in becoming a skilled volunteer? Do you enjoy the outdoors and learning about your local environments? If the answer is 'YES' then please join us in Koroit this weekend for the south-west Victoria Orange-bellied Parrot Workshop from 1.30pm on Saturday 11th May. You will...
It has been a year now since I moved into Kurrawonga as the caretaker, and what a year it has been. Possibly the biggest challenge was, and still is, to accept that no matter how enthusiastic and passionate you are about a conservation property, you...
Autumn is here, and with that the start of preparations for the Orange-bellied Parrot winter surveys. First, an update on the latest recovery efforts. In early February, seven captive-bred juvenile OBPs were released in Tasmania. This is the second time that an autumn release has taken place...
Our most recent working bee at Kurrawonga took place on a thankfully cool day in February. With several chainsaw-skilled volunteers we were able to have four saws going at once and made huge progress on the remaining Coast Wattle. Hopefully, we will be able to remove the...
Kurrawonga has been my home since I moved in as caretaker at Easter 2018 and I still have to pinch myself when I wake up in the mornings thinking I might still be dreaming. Every day and every night is different out here. Different bird...
Beginning in September 2018, Greg taught a Bird Monitoring Course to 30 keen participants in Dunkeld. Once a week for ten weeks Lu-Wei and I travelled to Dunkeld for the course and to undertake various flora and fauna monitoring tasks at Walker Swamp. Each session started...
