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Habitat for Bush Birds 2014 - 2016

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Making connections: a bird’s eye view

Habitat for Bush Birds: helping the feathered five 2014 - 2016

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• 2 year project funded through the Victorian Government’s

Communities for Nature program.

• Aim to manage and improve habitats for five focal species of

the threatened Temperate Woodland Bird Community across 300 ha within the Mount Alexander region.

• A combination of on-ground works in 11 priority zones and

community education/ monitoring throughout the region

11 priority habitat zones

• G. Blue Hills
• A. Sandon
• D. Strangways
• H. Clydesdale
• I. Glenluce
• J. Metcalfe
• F. Muckleford

Valley East

• B. Muckleford
• J. Mount Alexander

North

• C. Nuggetty

E.Woodford

Introducing! The feathered five……

Form into five groups for a class exercise…

Diamond Firetail

Jacky Winter

Hooded Robin

Brown Treecreeper

Painted Button-quail

Mystery circles…

Locations of Habitat for Bush Birds properties

Woodland birds on your property…

Only at Pilchers Bridge …. And Tarrleah Drive

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Species more common at Holy Goat farm and Tamsin’s

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Species absent at Holy Goat farm

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Only at Tamsin’s place

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If you have lots of amazing woodland birds:

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• Try to keep the structure of your habitat intact: grass tussocks,

small shrubs, logs and branches and leaf litter.

• Control weeds and rabbits.
• Avoid actions that disturb the delicate soil crust and
• rganisms: such as excessive fire clean-up, using goats for

weed control and planting non-indigenous plants

If you want more amazing woodland birds:

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• Try to develop the structure of your habitat: grass tussocks,

small shrubs, logs and branches and leaf litter.

• Plant understory species such as grasses, small shrubs, larger

shrubs – heavy emphasis on acacias, tree violets and banksias.

• The only way to restore the missing species is to work with

your neighbours to create the stepping stones and the patches the birds need in the landscape. Treecreepers – as simple as paddock trees and woody debris? Diamond Firetails – a little more complex…