Some years ago, we travelled from Scone to Gloucester via Barrington Tops NP
and pulled up in a very old pine forest for lunch. The trees were really big
and the forest floor was littered with logs and fallen trees. Clearly it was
not a forest managed for harvesting.
We were amazed at the 5 or 6 lyrebirds getting around. There was not much
understory, and the ground was soft and churned up.
Peter and Bev Morgan
The conservation battle is never finally won; the development battle is.
> On 5 Aug 2015, at 10:18 pm, Michael Tarburton <>
> wrote:
>
> IPeter asked:
>> Are there any Australian birds that use pine plantations for anything other
>> than refuge?
>
> In WA, Carnaby's Cockatoo used to love visiting the Pine Plantations near
> Perth, where they would stay for weeks eating pine seeds as a change to their
> diet of eucalyptus seeds. Most of the plantations I believe have gone now.
>
> Cheers
>
> Mike
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