Speaker: Dr Laura Bussolini, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Fenner School of Environment & Society, ANU.
When: Thursday 12 March, 7.30 pm
Details: The ANU recently received funding to research the movements of threatened parrot species, specifically the Superb Parrot and closely related Regent Parrot. Throughout the 2025 breeding season, we covered a huge geographic area to find locations where parrots nest, climbed trees (including Orange) to confirm nest timing and breeding success, and captured adult breeding birds to deploy GPS tracking tags. Over the course of just a few months, researchers at the ANU discovered dozens of Superb and Regent Parrot nests, collected hundreds of DNA samples, and deployed nearly ~70 GPS tags on adult birds. This talk will focus on some of the preliminary results from that project, specifically focusing on location information coming in from the GPS tags to show how birds are using the landscape during both the breeding and non-breeding periods.
Where: Seniors Village Hub, North Room. This talk will be online via Microsoft Teams (not ZOOM). Note the presentation will be recorded for OFNCS website use.
You can come to the Hub and watch Laura’s presentation as a projection and chat to other members
OR
you can watch it at home by requesting a Microsoft Teams link by emailing to
orangefieldnats@gmail.com. You will be sent a link on the afternoon of the talk.
If you haven’t used Teams before you will need to install Microsoft Teams or its browser plugin. It is best to do a test before the meeting and reconnect just before 7.30pm. You will be placed in a ‘waiting room’, and Tony Caine will let you in to the meeting when it starts at 7.30pm.
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