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Re: RE: [BIRDING-AUS] Re Burning

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Subject: Re: RE: [BIRDING-AUS] Re Burning
From: "Peter Ewin" <>
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 12:08:14 +1000
My experience with Beautiful Firetais on the Woronora PLateau (just south of Sydney) which was scorched in the 2001/2002 fire is that they are pretty resilient. They have been present in both unburnt and unburnt sites with nest material being carried in a burnt section of woodland last year. As long as some habitat was left unburnt I suspect they will breed up in there and rapidly move back into the burnt areas. The amazing thing I found is Emu-wrens surviving in swampos that have been scorched - though the vegetation probably doesn't burn as well as the surrounding woodland. Our preliminary study over the last 4 seasons shows that drought probably had just as much effect on birds as did the fires.
Cheers,
Peter

From: "Tim Bawden" <>
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Subject: Re: RE: [BIRDING-AUS] Re Burning
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 01:54:08 +0000

Considering the extent of the fire, how can there not be corpses everywhere? The Prom is my favourite place to visit and I worry at the impact but am endeavouring to be positive in that parts of the park probably "needed" a fire and that it may be interesting to document how thinsg recover over the coming years.... Still I notice my most reliable beautiful firetail site there appears to be affected, not sure how well they would go outrunning fires.

Cheers
Tim

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From: "Dean Ingwersen" <>
To: "Duncan Fraser" <>
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 14:39:08 +1000
Subject: RE: [BIRDING-AUS] Re Burning

Further to those comments, the Herald-Sun (I know!) today contains an article on the Prom fire. A DSE staff member is quoted as saying "only two possums have been found injured", and that they did not anticipate finding too many dead animals. Surely not. I thought incineration left corpses everywhere!!

Dean Ingwersen

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From:  on behalf of Duncan Fraser
Sent: Wed 6/04/2005 12:05 PM
To: birding aus
Subject: [BIRDING-AUS] Re Burning



Relax folks, you don't have to worry about the burning any more. On regional
radio this morning a DSE officer cheerily informed us that Wilson's Prom
looks wonderful, and will look even more wonderful in a couple of months
time. Furthermore, after spending a day and night checking the seven
thousand hectare fire area, he only found three singed critters, no dead
ones, and the bandicoots, owls, and little birds were going about their
business happily, just getting on with their lives. Yippeeeee! Duncan
Fraser, Maffra, Vic.

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