September 13 - 19, 2023
Saving local woodland birds
By CHLOE JAENICKE
THE Regent Honeyeater Project is on a mission to improve to provide a more secure future for a number of threatened species in North East Victoria. Their project primarily focuses on endangered Regent Honeyeater as it is the rarest of the threatened woodland bird community in the area. “The woodland bird community is declining in numbers, in particular the Regent Honeyeater and it is now thought there may only be 150 left in south east Australia,” project coordinator of the Regent Honeyeater Project, Andie Guerin, said. According to Mr Guerin the main reason the woodland bird community is declining is due to fragmentation in the landscape and the bird’s exposure to other threats. To combat this, the project runs planting days which are aimed to revegetate damaged areas with vegetation appropriate to the woodland bird community and are mainly volunteer run as the project is an individual environment charity. “The activities we take on take a lot of hands on work and a lot of people power so getting volunteers involved is what actually gets the work done,” Mr Guerin said.
◆ PLANTNG DAYS: Andy Guerin helps organise planting days to help save local woodland bird communities.
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