This walk is now official, good track work through a rainforest in the headwaters of the Groom river.
http://www.et.org.au/wild_walks
Bird List curtsey Des:
| Yellow-tailed
Black-Cockatoo |
Calyptorhynchus funereus |
| Green Rosella |
Platycercus caledonicus |
| Tasmanian Scrubwren |
Sericornis humilis |
| Scrubtit |
Acanthornis magna |
| Brown Thornbill |
Acanthiza pusilla |
| Spotted Pardalote |
Pardalotus punctatus |
| Yellow-throated Honeyeater |
Lichenostomus flavicollis |
| Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike |
Coracina novaehollandiae |
| Grey Shrike-thrush |
Colluricincla harmonica |
| Black Currawong |
Strepera fuliginosa |
| Grey Currawong |
Strepera versicolor |
| Grey Fantail |
Rhipidura albiscapa |
| Pink Robin |
Petroica rodinogaster |
| Silvereye |
Zosterops lateralis |
Also in April Liz and Sarah gave talks on Rails and Slime Moulds respectively. full text at
Sarah Lloyd & Liz Znidersic
present
The Fascinating World of Myxomycetes
&
The Secret Life of Rails
In 2010 naturalist and author Sarah Lloyd started exploring the
little-known world of myxomycetes (also known as plasmodial
or acellular slime moulds) in the wet eucalypt forest that
surrounds her home at Birralee in Northern Tasmania.
Myxomycetes are unlike any other organisms. They have two
animal-like stages that move about and feed, followed by a
spore-bearing fungus-like stage of exquisite beauty.
Sarah will talk about her work and show photographs of some
common, rare and ‘new’ species (one of which has been named
in her honour) and the various stages in the lives of these truly
remarkable organisms.
Liz Znidersic has spent the last four years travelling far and
wide to explore the secret worlds of two birds, Lewin’s Rail and
the Cocos Buff-banded Rail.
Both species belong to the Rallidae family and are related to
the Tasmanian Native-hen. But, unlike their conspicuous and
sometimes raucous cousin, rails are mostly cryptic ground-
dwelling birds that keep well hidden in the undergrowth.
Liz has spent time on rugged Tasman Island in southern
Tasmania and on the tropical Cocos Keeling Islands off the
north western coast of Western Australia investigating what
these elusive little birds get up to.
Liz will share her findings of their world and where it is leading
to in her PhD research.
