Re: RE: [BIRDING-AUS] Re Burning

Most finches would outrun a fire quiet
easily, i'd imagine.  I remember seeing red-browed finches being the
first out of an area of reeds being burnt along a local river  couple
of years back.

I remember thinking "maybe there
"firetails" are sensitive to the heat!" ; )

"Tim Bawden" <>
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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

-----Original Message-----
From: "Dean Ingwersen" <>
To: "Duncan Fraser" <>
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 14:39:08 +1000
Subject: 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: 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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