FW: Nesting boxes for Australian birds

[Andrew Hobbs <>]

Birds Australia has a couple of web pages on NestBoxes, although it is 
hard to find them by navigating from the main page.  Their URLs are
http://www.birdsaustralia.com.au/infosheets/nestbox.html

and

http://www.birdsaustralia.com.au/infosheets/05_nestboxes.pdf

Cheers

Andre

John Penhallurick wrote:
> Could someone with knowledge about this subject reply to this query?
>
> Thanks,
>
> John Penhallurick
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> From: Guttman,Burton  
> Sent: Tuesday, 6 February 2007 7:07 PM
> To: John Murray Penhallurick
> Subject: Nesting boxes for Australian birds
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> John, you're one of the regular Australian contributors to Birdchat, and I'd
> be extremely grateful if you could provide some information about Australian
> birds.  Some friends of mine, Dave and Dee Milne, will be traveling to
> Australia in April, primarily to Tasmania, as part of a kind of host-guest
> exchange program.  Dave is a marine biologist and a birder, and he also
> makes bird houses -- that is, nesting boxes for birds -- and he thought it
> would be nice to bring along an unassembled bird house as a gift for their
> hosts.  But he points out that there are no woodpeckers in Australia, and
> therefore -- since woodpeckers are the common agents here that open up
> nesting sites in hollow trees -- he wonders about the availability of
> hollow-tree nesting sites that Australian birds would commonly use.  I felt
> sure that some kind of Australian bird must have adapted to digging out such
> sites, or at the very least that they would be created naturally from limbs
> falling off trees and similar kinds of damage to trees.  Leafing through
> Pizzey's Field Guide to the Birds of Australia, I see a few species whose
> nesting sites are described as hollows in trees, though not many.  Perhaps
> you could comment on the use of hollow trees and nesting boxes in Australia,
> and it would also be useful if you could suggest some approximate sizes of
> boxes that would be useful, especially on the sizes of the entrance holes,
> since holes of different sizes attract some species and exclude others.
>
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> Cheers and thanks for your help,
>
> Burt
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> Burt Guttman
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> The Evergreen State College
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> Olympia, WA 98505      
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> Home:  7334 Holmes Island Road S. E., Olympia, 98503
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