Item on the ABC website today ...
http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s492551.htm
Thursday, February 28, 2002 . Posted: 08:30:25 (AEDT)
Mixed results for far south coast bird watchers
On the New South Wales far south coast, there have been mixed results for teams
of volunteers who have spent the summer watching over the nesting sites of
endangered shorebirds.
The region is one of the state's most important breeding sites for little terns,
hooded plovers and pied oystercatchers.
Numbers of some of the little shorebirds have been reduced to as few as several
hundred breeding pairs and each summer for the past three years the National
Parks Service has mounted an intensive security operation around the beachfront
nesting sites.
But this summer a series of big seas, king tides and attacks by foxes took a
heavy toll, with nearly all of the chicks wiped out at sites near Narooma and
Bermagui.
The only success was at Tathra, where a team of more than 50 volunteers oversaw
the hatching out of more than 40 little tern chicks, nearly all of which have
now fledged.
Birding-Aus is on the Web at
www.shc.melb.catholic.edu.au/home/birding/index.html
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