2021 NSW Regent Honeyeater Captive Release Update #4 Hi everyone (Regent Honeyeater email group), require a few practice-runs before perfecting their strategy. It has been exciting to note at least two We would first like to acknowledge the traditional...
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2021 NSW Regent Honeyeater Captive Release Update #4 Hi everyone (Regent Honeyeater email group), require a few practice-runs before perfecting their strategy. It has been exciting to note at least two We would first like to acknowledge the traditional zoo-bred pairs choosing live clumps of Long- owners of the land whose country we have had the flowered Mistletoe (Dendrophthoe vitellina) as privilege of walking on for this release – the nesting sites in the last week. Mistletoe is a vitally Wonnarua people. important food-source and habitat for nesting, especially in the Cessnock-Kurri Kurri woodlands This community update comes approximately six where the long-flowered mistletoe has been long weeks since 58 captive-bred Regent Honeyeaters utilised by Regent Honeyeaters as a food source were released into the Cessnock-Kurri Kurri and a nesting site. woodlands. The cohort of released birds have continued to make the most of the excellent flowering and we are please to report that breedi
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