Installing bird nesting boxes on Hobart's eastern shore
Over the years, the Tranmere-Clarence Plains Land and Coastcare group noticed a lot of large trees around Tranmere were disappearing. As they tell fil...
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Watch: behind the scenes at the Bruny Island Bird Festival
The Bruny Island Bird Festival celebrated its 7th festival in March this year. Held every two years, the biennial event is becoming ever-more popular,...
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Bruny Island Bird Festival
It's well documented that people with a connection to Nature - or to something they like - are far more active in conserving it, writes BirdLife Tasma...
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Plight of the shorebirds
The hooded plover and pied oystercatcher can only live, breed and feed successfully on the beach, writes Dr Eric Woehler (OAM). And that, he says, mak...
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Bruny Island launch: James Bunker on the Bruny Island Environment Network
In this series we'll introduce you to some key people involved in building the Bruny Island field guide. Here, conservationist and Vice-President of t...
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Bruny Island launch: Dr Tonia Cochran on its global significance
In this series we'll introduce you to some key people involved in building the Bruny Island field guide. Here, Inala Nature Tours owner Dr Tonia Cochr...
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The great Tasmanian bird count
Bird ecologist Dr Eric Woehler once thought it would take about five years to travel around most of Tasmania’s beaches and survey their inhabitants. 3...
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A lifelong love for wildlife
Dr Eric Woehler has been asked a few times where his passion and interest came from. He grew up in Hobart in a caring home, but nature wasn’t somethin...
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Macquarie Island: a true wildlife hotspot
“Every time, it’s like the first time. You’re just like a kid in the candy store when you see that much wildlife,” says veteran bird ecologist Dr Eric...
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The amazing migration
Dr Eric Woehler says he doesn’t need to exaggerate what these tiny migratory bird species can do - “I can simply tell people the bird that sits in the...
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It started in South Africa
For ecologist/ornithologist and Birdlife Tasmania Convenor Dr Karen Dick, her love of nature comes from her South African childhood, a mother who reha...
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Albatross: a life at sea
Karen Dick's love of seabirds goes back a long way to her university days. She is captivated by the big pelagics, who can live to a great age and spen...
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