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Hi Peter and others,
Having just returned from residential school at
Albury for the Charles Sturt Ornithology Grad Dip, I have just been pursuing
this line of enquiry. While we were there we looked at dozens of specimens
and were told that all specimens were more than welcome, and I can attest to
their usefulness. Often museums will use common species to trade with
other institutions where, for example, Purple-crowned Lorikeets, are not so
common.
Walter Boles (Avian Collection Manager at
the Australia Museum, NSW) told us that in NSW collection was
quite straightforward as licences granted to the museum cover collectors, or
something like that, suffice to say that you would be covered. However he
did warn that other states may have different laws and used Queensland as a
example of a place where one must be very careful of being caught with any
native fauna in one's freezer.
In Victoria I followed up the conversation with
Wayne Longmore at Melbourne Museum and have included hi reply to me
below.
Just ensure you record where and when, freeze it
and forward it to the museum ASAP.
Happy collecting
Stuart
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