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Photo of the month – the elusive Delma impar

Posted at 29 Sep 2020 at 17:32h in News, Long Point Restoration Reserve, Photo of the Month, Reptiles by Lauren Kivisalu

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The Striped Legless Lizard (Delma impar) is a species that has mastered elusiveness. They shelter and nest in soil cracks, and utilise surrounding grassy vegetation and rocks to keep well hidden during their daytime movements. These small reptiles are in fact not totally legless -...

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Photos of the Month: May 2020 – the NGT team get busy in wetlands!

Posted at 29 May 2020 at 16:13h in Long Swamp, Long Swamp Restoration, News, OBP Recovery, Photo of the Month by Lauren Kivisalu

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Yes, NGT love wetlands! Wetland restoration and research has been a big part of what the organisation has been about, right from the start. The team have worked across a vast array of different wetlands across south-eastern Australia. So for May 2020 we have a few...

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Photo of the month – Going gaga over Gang Gang Cockatoos

Posted at 30 Apr 2020 at 23:47h in News, Photo of the Month by Lauren Kivisalu

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For the past few months my family and I have been charmed by very special visitors - Gang Gang Cockatoos! They are often exceptionally quiet, and if it weren't for catching out the corner of one eye the pieces of eucalypt nuts falling to the...

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Photo of the month – The unity of cushion plants, Mount Field National Park

Posted at 19 Mar 2020 at 17:17h in News, Photo of the Month by Jonathan Tuck

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This photo of the month was taken near Newdegate Pass in Mount Field National Park, which we were lucky to visit while on a recent hiking trip to Tasmania. Cushion plants occur in alpine areas across the world. Rather than one large plant, they’re a community...

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Photo of the month – Who is circling Walker Swamp?

Posted at 20 Feb 2020 at 17:43h in Photo of the Month, Walker Swamp Restoration Reserve, Wetland Restoration by Lauren Kivisalu

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With NGT's wetland reserves still holding water, flocks of waterbirds have been keeping the team on point as they look to identify who is around … and it seems that they have been getting some extra help from above! For those of us who don't have...

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Species of the Month – Swamp Bluet damselfly

Posted at 29 Aug 2019 at 14:31h in News, Photo of the Month, Seasonal Herbaceous Wetlands, Species of the month by Bryan Haywood

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The Swamp Bluet (Coenagrion lyelli) is a damselfly endemic to Australia, and also the only species of this genus known from Australia. Until recently, the Swamp Bluet was recorded in south-east Queensland, New South Wales, Tasmania, central and eastern Victoria. In 2012, one male was photographed...

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Photo of the week – Sunset at Lake Moniboeng, Vic

Posted at 07 Jun 2019 at 12:14h in News, Photo of the Month by Jonathan Tuck

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Lake Moniboeng (or 'Momboeng') sits behind the sand dunes of Discovery Bay along the south-west Victorian coast and forms an important part of the Glenelg Estuary and Long Swamp Ramsar site. It's not far from NGT's Long Swamp restoration project near Nobles Rocks. NGT has...

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Photo of the week – A Christmas beetle battle, Rennick, Vic

Posted at 19 Dec 2018 at 12:04h in News, Photo of the Month by Jonathan Tuck

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Christmas in Australia often means Christmas beetles, and a bunch of hungry Christmas beetles means a Christmas battle! Christmas beetles are from the scarab beetle family, with a various species of different colours found around Australia. These green ones are likely to be from the genus Diphucephala...

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Photo of the week – Paper Daisies on the Major Mitchell Plateau, Grampians NP

Posted at 27 Nov 2018 at 21:59h in News, Photo of the Month by Jonathan Tuck

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Toward the end of spring, as the wildflowers are fading out on the plains, they can still be in full swing up on the cooler and moister hills. At about 900m elevation on the Major Mitchell Plateau last weekend we came across this mass flowering...

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Photo of the week: Aurora bluetail (Ischnura aurora)

Posted at 10 Oct 2018 at 11:26h in News, Photo of the Month by Jonathan Tuck

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Photographing Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) can be a challenge at the best of times. Your best chance at seeing a range of species is in and around wetlands, and while you wade gently through the shallows, gripping your fancy camera as you try to sneak...

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