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It’s very early in the season but there have already been a couple of sightings of Red-tails in Buloke. Normally we might expect the Red-tails to turn up in the Buloke around March but there were sightings from two weeks ago of Red-tails investigating Buloke in the Bringalbert area and then last week they were seen actually feeding just a bit further west near Benayeo.
The Recovery Team has announced that this years annual count will be held on Saturday 5th May. The Annual Count is easy to get involved with. Simply register your interest and we send you the information needed including instructions, a map of your search area and a reporting sheet.
To register, phone 1800 262 062 or email rtbc@birdsaustralia.com.au
Kalangadoo Primary School has just completed renovations to the school greenhouse so they can grow stringybark seedlings for the Red-tails. The school has been using a grant from South Australian NRM Community Grants program to renovate the old greenhouse including new stands at a comfortable height for the students to plant and maintain seedlings.
Edenhope College is the latest to install a Red-tail information Board. The Recovery Team is gradually replacing the old signs.
Conservation Volunteers Australia has continued to support the Red-tails by planting thousands of trees at the Casterton water treatment works this week.
Team leader Tom with international volunteers Sandra, Pauline and Victoria.
The first Red-tail nest for this breeding season has been found and the landholder is eligible for the $500 payment for a new nest site.
The Red-tail banners have been getting about the place over the past couple of weeks. First at Wimmera Biodiversity Day then to Mt Gambier Library and then at the Naracoorte Caves 'Threatened Species Day'. Follow the link below to see the pictures
On Friday 5th September, Minister for Environment and Conservation Paul Caica announced a grant of $30,000 for Birds Australia to support community activities aimed at protecting the Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo.
The Kalangadoo Primary School has continued helping the Red-tails with a tree planting day near Lucindale. Most of the trees planted were stringybarks (Red-tail food) with a sprinkling of other plants normally found in stringybark forests. See the photos...
Casterton Primary School has just installed a replacement for their old worn out Red-tail information board. The old signs were made of steel with a sticker attached and were prone to fade and easily scratched, but the new signs are printed on hard wearing plastic and constructred of recycled materials. This makes them longer lasting and better for the environment. See the photos..
This year’s Annual Count has helped us identify a lot of new information – including the location of the larger flocks so they could be flock-counted.
The Recovery Team has launched a new scheme to reward landholders for discovery of ‘new’ Red-tail nest sites, with a grant from the Nature Foundation of South Australia. The new scheme kicked off on June 1st 2011 and will extend to March 31st 2012.
The Recovery Team have just uploaded two new publications to our Media page (under fact sheets). Guidelines to growing buloke, tells you everything needed to get this hard to grow plant going.'10 amazing things about Red-tails' is a very interesting 16 page booklet with facts you may never have heard before.
A big thank you to all 160 volunteers taking part in the Annual Count held on Saturday May 7th. Conditions on the day were good but rains earlier in the year made many of the tracks impassable.
Final numbers are now in and it looks as if another low count will be recorded for the third year in a row. While the result of 837 is slightly more than previous years, it doesn’t come close to the 2008 result of 1404 birds.
This year the SeRtBC Recovery Team will also be holding an annual count training session on Saturday 30th April 2011 in Casterton, Victoria for anyone interested to learn more about how to correctly identify the birds both visually and vocally, and what is required on the day.
The date for the 2011 South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo Annual Count is set for Saturday 7th May 2011. Volunteers are encouraged to grab out their binoculars, jump in their 4WD’s and join in the fun to search for one of the region's most colourful local's, the South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo.
Five functioning Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo nests have been found in winter whilst undertaking maintenance of artificial nest boxes north of Dergholm.
The Recovery Team has prepared a new and exciting poster for the South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo
