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The National Malleefowl Recovery Team produces a newsletter every Autumn and Spring with all the latest information on events and latest findings called ‘Around The Mounds’
You can download the newest edition below, or continue to browse this page for latest news articles.
Keep Up
TO DATE
The National Malleefowl Recovery Team produces a newsletter every Autumn and Spring with all the latest information on events and latest findings called ‘Around The Mounds’
You can download the newest edition below, or continue to brows this page for latest news articles.
LATEST NEWS
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An update from our project partner Wimmera CMA on this year's malleefowl monitoring program. We are glad to be able to work with NRM groups across the country to ensure that monitoring is consistent and done in a way that allows us to estimate the conservation status of malleefowl as a species.
Threatened Species Recovery Hub
#savingmalleefowl
Here's a malleefowl pair displaying to each other at the mound. This behaviour can be quite elaborate and makes for some great photographs.
#malleefowl #savingmalleefowl #birdbehaviour #conservation #threatenedspecies #birdsofaustralia #australiasbirds
Dr Joe Benshemesh running a training sessions for our volunteers on how to service our camera traps. Cameras provide a wealth of data for our monitoring program, but someone needs to head out bush to keep their batteries and SD cards topped up. We're lucky to have a great team of volunteers to help with this.
#malleefowl #savingmalleefowl #cameratrap #monitoring #threatenedspecies
Freshly hatched and about to leave the mound, roam free and live entirely independently of its parents.
#malleefowl #savingmalleefowl #threatenedspecies #birdsofaustralia #australianwildlife
www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-28/cameras-reveal-malleefowl-predator-relationship/12292622
Vulnerable malleefowl does more breeding with foxes about
www.abc.net.au
Cameras show unexpected relationship between malleefowl and their predators.Malleefowl vs goshawk. What a moment, captured by our project officer Graeme while on site. This was a happy ending, for the malleefowl at least.
#malleefowl #savingmalleefowl #threatenedspecies #birdsofaustralia #goshawk
www.naturalresources.sa.gov.au/samurraydarlingbasin/news/200525-region-participates-in-national-e...
Pigs are another feral animal that turns up in our camera trap images. They cause a lot of damage to mounds in some locations, raiding them and eating eggs. Controlling pigs is one management action that is used to help malleefowl in some places.
#malleefowl #savingmalleefowl #feralpigs #cameratrap #conservation #threatenedspecies
What a beautiful piece of art! Who knows where this is? Anyone visited The Big Mallee Fowl before? Tag us with your photos so we can see :)
#thebigmalleefowl #malleefowl #savingmalleefowl #natureart #sculpture #threatenedspecies
This project is supported through funding from the Australian Government’s National Landcare Program.