March Meeting

Wed 11 March 2015 07:30pm

Chris Davey - The 2014 North-West Australian Wader Expedition- some personal experiences
Michael Guppy - Identification of nest predators at Moruya over three breeding seasons reveals marked temporal changes.

This month there will be two presentations of equal length.

The first will be by Chris Davey on “The 2014 North-West Australian Wader Expedition- some personal experiences”.

During February-March 2014 three COG members participated in the annual North-West Australian Wader Expedition run out of the Broome Bird Observatory and organised by the Australasian Wader Studies Group. The presentation will describe the objectives and logistics of the three week long expedition and methods involved in catching and banding waders. The talk will outline the importance of the East Asian Flyway and discuss highlights for someone new to the wader experience.

The second presentation will be by Michael Guppy on “Identification of nest predators at Moruya over three breeding seasons reveals marked temporal changes.”

This will be an update of Michael’s fascinating presentation given in 2013.  He first used remote cameras in 2012-2013 to identify the predators that were taking half of the nests on their site. The strategy was very successful and provided valuable information on a virtually unknown aspect of the breeding ecology on the site. He has continued this strategy for another two seasons and has doubled the list of predators, discovered a hitherto unknown nest predator, accumulated data on the impact of feral predators, and continued to delineate the complex role of the Fan-tailed cuckoo as a nest predator.

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