Blue Tier walk to The Big Tree

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 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7yxWTaRHPQLdDBvU1hjYkcwWlBYQUZnZUNrdnAxTkN4bjd3/view

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.