The Bird of the Month presentation will be by Jack Holland covering the “Leaden and Satin Flycatchers.”
The main presentation will be by Professor David Lindenmayer, from the ANU Fenner School of Environment and Society, on “Changing landscapes change birds – new insights into how softwood plantations reshape temperate woodland bird communities”.
Large areas of south-eastern Australia have been targeted for softwood plantation establishment. In 1997, the Nanangroe grazing and cropping property near Burrunjuck in southern NSW was purchased and much of the land was converted to pine plantation. Patches of endangered temperate woodland were preserved as the surrounding landscape was converted to plantations. ANU, with the support from members of COG, have documented changes in bird populations within the woodland patches over the past two decades. This talk will describe these changes, including the development of novel assemblages of bird species, as well as the regional impacts of the plantation that extend well beyond the boundary of areas where pine stands have been established.