Posts from March 2011
Tangentyerre Nursery Open Day serves up a wealth of opportunities
Tangentyerre Nursery held their open day on Saturday and Alice Springs turned on a beautiful March morning for the event. Jesse and I were there early to set up the Land for Wildlife/Garden for Wildlife stall and to be honest, there is nowhere else I would have rather been. A big family of Variegated Fairy-wrens
Wildcare Alice Springs plans to reduce the impact of discarded aluminium cans as a long-term killer of wildlife
This is a sad, but all too common story. Aluminium cans seem to have a unique ability to become death-traps for curious wildlife. The aluminium can featured in this picture is so old and faded that the branding is barely visible. A discarded aluminium can may sit in the landscape for decades before claiming a victim
Congratulations LfW members – we’re all part of the solution
This fantastic short film has appeared on Youtube.com with Professor Harry Recher discussing his fears for the future of Australia’s small bird populations. The good news is that all of the positive steps mentioned are encapsulated in the values and actions exhibited by Land for Wildlife members in their conservation efforts on their properties. Watch this
Extraordinary wet continues…
So we didn’t quite cap the record rainfall of 1974 last year but we came very close. Back in ’74 we had 782.5mm recorded for the calendar year. In 2010 we came in at 769.6mm – so close. However, it is instructive to look at the bigger picture. With rainfall stats just out for February
Peach-faced Lovebirds – the next bird pest for Alice?
Could this be the next avian invader for Alice Springs? The Peach-faced Lovebird, a popular and very attractive pet bird, is native to arid parts of the south-west of Africa around Namibia. It is a hollow nesting species and we are right in the middle of their breeding season now. There is a small flock
Succinea Snails at Ilparpa Swamp
Thanks to Red Centre malacologist Mark Carter who was happy to identify this as Succinea for us – no snails needed to be harmed. Commonly known as Amber Snails, the entire genus are air-breathing land snails.This little beauty was found down at Ilparpa Swamp during some routine water sampling. There are many species withing the Succinea
Rabbit Scan Website
G’day folks, here is a great way that you can contribute to citizen science and help with the eradication of one of the worst feral threats in the country. Feralscan.org.au have just got the rabbit scan part of their project up and running. This is a website where you can register and start recording your
Bananas From a Horse Paddock!
Last week, Land for Wildlife coordinators went to assess a new property for membership. The property, in the racecourse/winery rural area, had some nice specimens of remnant Ironwood and Fork-leaved Corkwood trees. A portion of the property, however, had been used for horse grazing in the past and showed signs of its grazing history, with