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Tracking Bunyip Birds - Crowd funding update

Tracking Bunyip Birds [1]The globally endangered Australasian Bittern is one of the country's most poorly known birds, but recently a breeding population using rice crops has been found to occur in very significant numbers, yet nobody knows where they go after the rice has been harvested. This project [1] aims to raise the money for satellite tracking devices to uncover the secret life of this unusual bird.

The Bitterns in Rice Project [2]is a collaboration between Birdlife Australia [3], the Ricegrowers’ Association of Australia [4] (RGA), the Riverina Local Land Services [5], Murrumbidgee Landcare Inc and range of other organisations. It is aiming to raise $50,000 to satellite track at least seven bitterns, providing valuable ecological data and enabling people to follow the bird s' movements online.

» http://pozible.com/bunyipbirds [6]

Pozible - LIFE [7]

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Tags:
  • bitterns [9]
  • crowdfunding [10]
  • Bunyip bird [11]

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Source URL: https://mail.mli.org.au/node/2225?mini=2024-12

Links
[1] http://www.pozible.com/project/186259
[2] http://www.murraywildlife.com.au/major-projects/bitterns-in-rice/
[3] http://birdlife.org.au/
[4] http://www.rga.org.au/
[5] http://riverina.lls.nsw.gov.au/
[6] http://pozible.com/bunyipbirds
[7] http://www.pozible.com/list/pop/21/all/0
[8] https://mail.mli.org.au/files/BIRP-Media-Release_Tracking-the-Bunyip-Birds.pdf
[9] https://mail.mli.org.au/taxonomy/term/179
[10] https://mail.mli.org.au/taxonomy/term/641
[11] https://mail.mli.org.au/taxonomy/term/642