2020 NSW Regent Honeyeater Captive Release Update #4 Hi everyone (Regent Honeyeater email group), with emergent spotted gum on a forested slope around 3 km east of the release site. Our fourth community update comes almost six weeks since the first...
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2020 NSW Regent Honeyeater Captive Release Update #4 Hi everyone (Regent Honeyeater email group), with emergent spotted gum on a forested slope around 3 km east of the release site. Our fourth community update comes almost six weeks since the first large-scale NSW captive release of Regent Honeyeaters. It has been a fortnight of mixed results for the captive birds, with more interesting observations and birds turning up in surprising locations, but our numbers are certainly diminishing. We recovered our fourth and fifth fatalities and believe another bird may have either expired or dropped its transmitter. At least three birds are proving faithful to several sites, however, two wanderers have moved to locations currently unknown. A brief outline of the monitoring situation as of July 29 is as follows: PUYM seen here resting in a sapling at a roadside location • 3 x birds carrying functioning transmitters where it spent several days with PBYM © M Breckenridge. and regularly re-sighted •
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