Help Wanted ? Hooded Plover monitoring along the Victorian Coast
Birds Australia has received Natural Heritage
Trust funding for a project aimed at conservation
management of beach-nesting birds. These birds
are extremely vulnerable to a range of threats
related to human recreation on beaches during
summer. This project focuses on the Hooded Plover
in Victoria as a case study and will investigate
the effectiveness of different types of
management for improving the breeding success of these threatened shorebirds.
If you live near the Victorian coast (see the
list of potential monitoring sites below) and
would like to become involved in the project,
please contact Grainne Maguire on
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or phone 9882 2622. Ideally, I would like
volunteers to monitor a hooded plover pair 1-2
times per month. Once a nest is detected, greater
effort would be required, roughly 1-2 visits per
week. Hopefully, there will be a number of
volunteers able to monitor each pair so that the
effort can be shared. This monitoring is
essential to the project so that we can determine
rates of nesting success and causes of failure,
and for comparisons between sites that are
managed differently, to determine which efforts work best.
Locations for monitoring (an asterix denotes
sites that I have no or very few volunteers so far):
- Western Victoria: Logans beach Warrnambool,
Rutledges Cutting*, Killarney beach, Port Fairy
South and East beaches*, Fitzroy River Estuary*,
Surrey River Estuary*, Lake Yambuk*, Blacks beach
Discovery Bay*, Whites beach Discovery bay*
- Central West coast: Apollo Bay (Barham River,
Wild Dog Creek), Point Impossible*, Bancoora
Beach Breamlea*, 13th Beach (29W and 40W access points)*
- Mornington Peninsula
- West Gippsland: Powlett River mouth*, Harmers
Haven, Inverloch, Venus Bay Number 1 beach*, North Walkerville foreshore*
- East Gippsland: Lake Tyers beach, Red
Bluff/Lake Bunga beach, Marlo Coastal Reserve, Mallacoota beaches*
Grainne Maguire
Birds Australia (Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union)
National Office
415 Riversdale Rd
Hawthorn East, Vic., 3123
Ph: 03-9882-2622
Mobile: 0400 910 761
Fax: 03-9882-2677
Email:
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ABN: 87 004 076 475
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