Re: RE: [BIRDING-AUS] Re Burning

["Peter Ewin" <>]

My experience with Beautiful Firetais on the Woronora PLateau (just south of 
Sydney) which was scorched in the 2001/2002 fire is that they are pretty 
resilient. They have been present in both unburnt and unburnt sites with 
nest material being carried in a burnt section of woodland last year. As 
long as some habitat was left unburnt I suspect they will breed up in there 
and rapidly move back into the burnt areas.
The amazing thing I found is Emu-wrens surviving in swampos that have been 
scorched - though the vegetation probably doesn't burn as well as the 
surrounding woodland.
Our preliminary study over the last 4 seasons shows that drought probably 
had just as much effect on birds as did the fires.
Cheers,
Peter

> From: "Tim Bawden" <>
> To: 
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> Subject: Re: RE: [BIRDING-AUS] Re Burning
> Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 01:54:08 +0000
>
> 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: [BIRDING-AUS] 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: [BIRDING-AUS] 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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