2020 NSW Regent Honeyeater Captive Release Update #5 Hi everyone (Regent Honeyeater email group), One of the hopes with this release was that radio- tracked birds might lead us to areas where We are now eight weeks post-release and come to previously...
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2020 NSW Regent Honeyeater Captive Release Update #5 Hi everyone (Regent Honeyeater email group), One of the hopes with this release was that radio- tracked birds might lead us to areas where We are now eight weeks post-release and come to previously unrecorded wild Regent Honeyeaters are you with the fifth community update following the present. We are happy to report that on Wednesday Regent Honeyeater release in the Lower Hunter. (12/8/20) we located a minimum of six wild Regent The number of released birds that we still have tabs Honeyeaters in the area that UYYM had moved to. on are dwindling, but there has also been an exciting The birds were observed feeding on Coastal Grey result in the days leading up to this update. Most Box (E. moluccana) blossom and amongst the unfortunately, we have now had our sixth and foliage of Grey Gum (E. punctata). Furthermore, at seventh confirmed fatalities with the retrieval of least four of these birds appear to have paired up – PBYM and OOYM (b
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