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Dr Andrew Hingston collected discarded beer bottles as a kid on the east Tamar highway to save up money for a second-hand pair of binoculars. From the...

Why are old trees so important for endangered woodland birds? It takes a tree 100 years or more, generally, to start developing hollows. These hollows...

Do we want to have a world with Swift Parrots, or don't we? If we do, we've got to act right now because we're running out of time fast. Here are 8 cr...

There is a lot of positive stuff and a nice road map laid out to recover the endangered Forty Spotted Pardalote, including through a project that's be...

An extraordinary conservation project on Bruny Island is building nest boxes tailored to help one of the world's rarest birds. The project is figuring...

Swift Parrots are critically endangered. The one thing that has kept the Swift Parrot going, is that there are two islands, Bruny Island and Maria Isl...

The Swift Parrot is a little bright green parrot, it's about 60 grams or so - about half the size of a Rosella, that flys at very high speeds - up to ...

The 40-spotted Pardalote is a very specialised bird and one of the rarest on planet Earth. Expert Dr Andrew Hingston explains some of this beautiful e...

For more than 40 years Bob Graham has observed the ongoing natural processes on Bruny Island. These processes remind us that we are part of everything...

There is a dynamic relationship that builds up with a particular species of trees, and particular species of birds, and their need to feed, to breed a...

Dolphins are common around Bruny Island. Whales including Southern Wrights, Humpbacks, and occasionally Blue Whales and Orcas seasonally migrate throu...

The ecology of Simpsons bay has improved in recent years. Shorebird numbers here have increased. There are a number of reasons behind this improved ec...