Hello COG members and subscribers, a reminder that the monthly COG meeting will again be
a normal face-to-face one held from 7:30 pm
on 12 October
at our usual venue,
the multi-media centre at the Canberra Girls Grammar School in Deakin.
As usual there will be two speakers, as follows:
Anthony Overs - Bird banding in Indonesia.”
Chris Lloyd -
The Housing Crisis: A Penguin Perspective.
Further details are below.
The revised ACT Public School COVID Management Plan September 2022 (https://www.education.act.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/2075573/ACT-Public-School-COVID-Management-Plan-September-2022.pdf)
states under Hiring a school facility “For a hirer to access a public school facility they must have a COVID-19 Safety Plan which must include adhering to physical distancing and hygiene requirements. Private events held at a school facility must also
comply with any applicable public health restrictions for events.” Therefore meeting attendees will need to continue wearing masks.
Everyone is welcome. There will be 2 interesting though quite different presentations (the first time I can recall a talk on either Indonesian birds or penguins) so I look forward to seeing you there.
Jack Holland
The short presentation will be
Anthony Overs on “Bird banding in Indonesia.”
A little over a decade ago, the Australian Bird and Bat Banding Scheme assisted the Indonesian government with the establishment of the Indonesian Bird Banding Scheme. A significant part of the AusAID-funded
project involved the training of senior ornithological researchers, by Australian bird banders, in the capture and banding of birds. Join Anthony and his colleagues on their expeditions to Bali and Sulawesi, “training the trainers”, and get an in-the-hand
look at some spectacular birds.
The main speaker will be Chris Lloyd,
a volunteer with the NPWS on seabird work – one of the fields of ornithology he worked in for two decades prior to retirement, on “The Housing Crisis: A Penguin Perspective”
A series of externalities are placing pressure on the available habitat for
Little Penguin (Eudyptula minor) breeding. In NSW breeding of this and most pelagic species is largely restricted to offshore islands after predation by feral animals, industrialisation and urbanisation extirpated the mainland colonies over the
last two centuries. Increasing temperatures will see the northern most breeding colonies decline and there is consequently a need to establish new colonies further south.
The community of Eden was one of the last places to have mainland breeding and their interest in having them return led to an experiment with artificial habitat and attraction. It is this project and the
broader implications for obligate burrow nesters which will be the subject of Chris’ presentation.
