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25.01.2022 Did you know feeding native birds can alter natural behaviour and harm their health? It creates an unhealthy dependence on humans and the food is often not suit...ed to their physiology. Additionally, it can draw birds into unsafe areas where they may be predated on. Feeding native birds without a licence is now an offence under the new Biodiversity Conservation Act. Feeding commercially available bird seed can also spread weeds and may be a blend that isn’t suitable to native birds. Instead, you can play your part by having native plants and shrubs in your garden, so birds have access to natural food sources. More info on having a bird friendly garden is available at https://perthzoo.wa.gov.au//do-your-p/bird-friendly-garden. Read more about feeding native birds in the winter edition of LANDSCOPE magazine, out now in newsagents and online at shop.dbca.wa.gov.au

25.01.2022 What a ruckus! Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoos our pick of the week. Finally, there’s some good news for the iconic Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo. We’re thrilled at the... announcement that the Morrison Government is investing $3 million through its Environment Restoration fund to help in the recovery of this magnificent and Endangered species. While Carnaby’s can be found across quite a wide area of south-western Australia, their population has more than halved in recent decades largely due to the loss and fragmentation of their habitat. Photographer Lea Scaddan saw this flock of feeding Carnaby’s at Yanchep National Park and was struck by their noise and beauty. Christian Porter, the Federal Member of Pearce (an electorate where these cockies can be found), said that with the support of BirdLife Australia, five community organisations will now deliver practical, on-ground actions to help raise fledglings at nesting sites. These include revegetation and land management of black-cockatoo habitat and surveying, repairing and building of nesting hollows and structures. Through the combined efforts of more than 80 landholders and community groups, the projects are expected to assist in 1,800 extra fledglings joining the flock, Mr Porter said. It's an exciting step forward for threatened species conservation in WA. Learn more about BirdLife Australia’s black-cockatoo projects at https://www.birdlife.org.au//southwest-black-cockatoo-reco Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoos by Lea Scaddan Photography

25.01.2022 Here is some important information about how to help a baby bird on the ground. Please share so we can reduce the amount of kidnapped birds admitted into centres each year. Remember that you can always call and get advice about a baby bird before it is removed from its territory.

25.01.2022 You can help FAWNA Inc - We CAN build a Wildlife Hospital ! Campaign by donating you eligible containers or your 10c refund to FAWNA Inc.... Our special CODE is C10286828 Perhaps Save it in your Phone Contacts so you can help us build the Regional Wildlife Hospital in WA!!

24.01.2022 Baby Tawny Frogmouths!! I looooove them!!!

19.01.2022 RAISING AWARENESS Hi everyone, we would like to share the story of a newly admitted magpie we rescued last week in the hope this story will be shared and help e...ducate people to keep wildlife wild This gorgeous juvenile Australian magpie was reported to us last week by a lovely woman named Margaret. (Thanks Margaret!) Sadly the magpie was being attacked by local maggies and was seeking human attention, playing with tennis balls in Margaret's backyard. The magpie was seemingly very imprinted and unable to socialise well with the other magpies. All signs suggest this bird has been kept as a pet illegally and was then released. She was at high risk of being killed by the local magpies or domestic pets. She was admitted with the following issues: unable to socialise with other magpies properly rejected by local magpies (possibly due to poor social skills, or they aren't her family) seeking out humans and domestic areas most flight feathers are broken due to malnutrition scaly leg mite infection likely due to being kept near or with diseased domestic fowl This bird will now have to undergo months of rehabilitation to get her socialised and wild enough for a soft release. She is not a unique case sadly. In fact, we have admitted over fifteen pet magpies who have been kept illegally by people in the Perth area over the past few months. Please do not keep magpies as pets. Artificial or meat based diets causes malnutrition in developing magpies, so please don't feed them. On behalf of our little patients who have to go through a very long rehab to get them fit for the wild, we ask everyone to share this with friends and family, and to please contact wildlife hospitals or the Wildcare Helpline if you find a magpie needing some help. It is illegal to take a magpie home and keep it so the best thing to do it call us for advice. We are here to help.

18.01.2022 Our Volunteer Rehabber Emily just adores these little dinosaur like Bronzewing Pigeon chicks - every year chicks come into care and are lovingly raised by beautiful people like Emily. #joy #pidgeon #wildliferehabber#dinosaur #chicks#birds #fawnaflightacademy #fawna#spring

16.01.2022 Masked Owl down but not out A beautiful Masked Owl, picked up without resistance on a driveway in Riverslea this week is doing well in the care of Phil Pain ...at Eagles Heritage. We think an immature female but at 600gm she is extremely underweight. Thanks to Tanya who wrapped her in a dressing gown and carried her just around the corner to the home of FAWNA wildlife carer Lynda Moyle. As indicated by rat bones in her first regurgitated pellet, the suspicion is that the owl is suffering from anticoagulant rat poisoning. As soon as she has settled into her new environment, our wildlife veterinarian Felicity Bradshaw will do a thorough inspection and take a blood sample. Will keep you informed on how she fares on the long path to clearing her system of poison, ready for release. See more

16.01.2022 How do I install a nest box? By far the best tree installation method, is the Habisure system, designed by Hollow Log Homes in Queensland. This brilliantly simp...le tree installation mechanism is a single length of PVC coated 3-3.5mm gal wire (or fencing wire + piece of garden hose) that ties around the tree and expands as the tree grows. The only place I've found that sells this thick PVC coated wire is here: https://www.thefencingstore.com.au/pvc-line-wire-315-parent Now, if you don't have PVC coated 3-3.5mm wire (see the duck nest box image), then just normal fencing wire will do the trick - mind it has to be the argumentative 3-3.5mm thick wire! You will just need to add a piece of green garden hose around the back - see the first image, so the wire doesn't cut into the tree trunk. As there is no plastic coating to friction grip to the tree trunk to evenly distribute the weight of the box, the garden hose is needed. And you will need to install the nest box at a fork or tree branch if not using plastic coated wire, as plain wire is slippery against the tree trunk. You can install the PVC coated wire Habisure system to the straight trunk of a tree - it will stay up on it's own! There are zig zag friction springs shaped in the wire at each side of the nest box - that are the key feature of this mechanism. There are no wire joins to fail, other than the loop at one end that you feed the other end through and bend back on itself - no wire twisting is needed. It's also super-easy to un-install a nest box, so it can be moved to a different spot at any point in time. No nails, screws or drilling hardwood at heights is needed. And the tree is completely undamaged by the nest box installation. This is the only installation method I will use for nest boxes that I install on my own, or other people's properties. Most of the nest boxes on my property are made by Hollow Log Homes also. I'm too time poor to make my own, and HLH have by far the better designs of the nest box makers out there after decades of research, and use all certified sustainably harvested hard wood materials that are very durable. The Habisure system also makes installing nest boxes super quick and easy, I installed 11 nest boxes using my tall ladder a few weekends ago at the Wandiyali Trust property in just over an hour, once we'd added and shaped the wire on all the nest boxes. Here is a link to Hollow Log Home's how-to videos on making this mechanism. https://www.hollowloghomes.com/habisure-system-demonstration

15.01.2022 Owl Friendly Garden posters part of an Australia-wide Birdlife Australia campaign Birdlife’s huge membership is being asked to individually ensure rat poisons d...o not get into our wildlife food chains. Their website includes beautiful downloadable ‘owl friendly garden’ posters that we can all display at our front doors https://www.actforbirds.org/ratpoison. Owl Friendly Garden posters - part of an Australia-wide Birdlife Australia campaign Birdlife’s huge membership is being asked to personally ensure rat poisons do not get into our wildlife food chains. Their website includes beautiful downloadable ‘owl friendly garden’ posters that we can all display at our front doors. Featuring in media coverage of the campaign is the sad case of the death of a Boobook outside Birdlife’s Melbourne offices. As with the WA Boobooks in Mike Lohr’s PhD study, liver testing showed cause of death to be Second Generation Anticoagulant Rodenticides. Birdlife reports that over 3000 submissions calling for protection of wildlife were submitted to the current review of rodenticides by the APMVA, the authority responsible for scheduling such products. While waiting and hoping for a decision to appropriately restrict access, BirdLife Australia has written to major retailers of SGARs asking them to remove these products from their shelves.

15.01.2022 The beautiful soothing wake up calls of the Yellow tail Black Cockatoos (taken from our balcony) Main Ridge 29th August 2020

14.01.2022 https://www.instagram.com/p/CLDQCV2ACni/

13.01.2022 BREAKING: The Busselton Mail reports on the upcoming screening of Cry of the Forests in Busselton Wednesday Nov 18. Tickets on sale now: https://bookings.venuetickets.com.au//mobile_selectSession https://www.busseltonmail.com.au//south-west-documentary/

12.01.2022 Carnaby cockatoo nest tube install.

09.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/DailyMail/videos/777292223039136/?vh=e&extid=zupY7iL8BkbUJXWK

07.01.2022 A Bullsbrook market gardener has been fined $18,000 with costs of $618 after satellite imagery showed he had illegally cleared approximately 8.8 hectares of nat...ive vegetation. An application for a clearing permit had been made to the then Department of Environment and Conservation but was refused as the banksia woodland contained foraging habitat for the endangered Carnaby’s black cockatoo. Comments attributed to Environment Minister Stephen Dawson: "Adhering to decisions on clearing permit applications is vital to ensure that inappropriate clearing of native vegetation does not take place. "Clearing native vegetation after an application was refused is a serious matter as it undermines the integrity of Western Australia's environmental laws." https://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au//Satellite-surveilla Photo for illustration purposes only.

06.01.2022 It's breeding season for Plovers. Plovers/Masked Lapwings are commonly seen in large grassy areas, but can also nest in some dangerous and precarious locations ...such as on median strips in the middle of busy roads or in car parks! If you have a plover in your area, please read the graphics below for some tips on what you can do. Plovers are very protective of their nests and chicks. Adults will swoop and use loud noises or act as though they have a broken wing in an attempt to lure the intruder away from the nest. This behaviour is mostly bluff and actual contact attacks are rare. Learn more https://www.wires.org.au/wildlif/wildlife-education/plovers

03.01.2022 It's moving day for our Yellow-tailed black cockatoos! Their new home was designed and built by our very talented onsite builder, Justin, and it's grand openin...g has been a long time in the making! This incredible enclosure is 6 metres high, 8 metres wide, and 16 metres long and was built over a course of around 9 months. We hope you enjoy this timeline of photos from the moment the old enclosure was torn down to when we introduced our Black cockatoos into their new home #bonorong #bonorongwildlifesanctuary #yellowtailedblackcockatoos #wildliferesuce

03.01.2022 Tis the season! **PLEASE SHARE!** AUSTRALIAN MAGPIES: DOs & DON'Ts: DO seek advice from a wildlife hospital.... DO respect magpies and keep magpie families together. DO follow the advice of licenced wildlife rehabilitators. DON'T feed, take home, make a pet of, cut the wings of, cage, or displace magpies. DON'T try to release magpies into an area they were not originally from. DON'T illegally take wildlife from the wild. If you find a magpie and you think they might need some help, this advice may help... When to take a magpie straight to a wildlife hospital: -if there are any injuries. -if an adult can't fly. -if a nestling (tail less than 3cm long) is on the ground. -if a bird has a tumour, disease or parasites. -if the magpie has been attacked by anything, brought in by a cat, harassed by a cat or disturbed by a dog. When to wait and watch: -if a fledgling is on the ground, wait and watch to see if the parents return; contact a wildlife hospital for advice if parents don't return for 2+hrs. -if you are concerned a chick's parents might have died, wait and watch to see if family members/parents return. -if you have returned a young rehabilitated magpie to their territory, wait and watch to see if the parents feed them. -if a fledgling is on the ground in the evening, wait and watch to see if the fledgling can climb up a tree to safety. When to interfere and place a young bird in a tree: -if the young bird is fledgling age and not injured or unwell. -if there are parents around but the young bird cannot get itself up into a tree. -if the young bird is at risk of predation or attack if left on the ground. -if it is getting dark and the young bird is still on the ground. For ALL NESTLING BIRDS, please take them to a wildlife hospital for assessment to check for injuries. If they are healthy, the wildlife hospital will help you by providing advice on the best course of action. It is now illegal for people to keep magpies without a licence. It is now illegal for magpies to be kept or cared for by someone who is not licenced to rehabilitate this species. But we do need your help to rescue, transport and return magpies to their families where appropriate! Please do the right thing for the magpies and seek professional advice. We really hope to PREVENT humanisation, illegal keeping/trade and inapropriate magpie keeping this season. Prevention is the key. Magpies seem to be a species at high risk of illegal taking from the wild and keeping as 'pets'. We can all help them but educating our friends and families and seeking professional advice. As always, we love magpies and are here to help if you have any questions or concerns about these beautiful birds. Have a wonderful day everyone!

02.01.2022 URBAN COCKY FAMILY A "very rare" event is taking place in the City of Cockburn according to BirdLife Western Australia, with a family of forest red-tail...ed black-cockatoos nesting, with a chick close to fledging. Birdlife WA said this was unusual because most red-tailed cockatoos nest in forested areas. "They are spending more time in Perth now and it seems some are now breeding here," it said. "Whether this is good or not is debatable, with chicks having a much higher mortality rate in urban areas. "According to WA Museum Boola Bardip it is also extremely rare to see the male feed the chick at the nest, so this is a very important record." These photos of the happy urban cockatoo family were taken by ecologist and conservationist Claire Greenwell. Have you seen any black cockatoos nesting in your area?

01.01.2022 Since 1995, it’s been illegal to import exotic parrots into Australia. But now, the Federal Government is considering lifting this ban a decision which BirdLi...fe Australia condemns. Importing parrots poses a significant risk of introducing avian diseases into Australia, endangering some of our most iconic and already threatened native birds. It’s way too much of a biosecurity risk, says Sean Dooley, BirdLife Australia’s National Public Affairs Manager. The risk is obvious: for an exotic avian disease to escape from imported captive parrots and then ravage wild populations. It’s a scenario we’ve become familiar with in the last few months! And it’s not just wild birds. The introduction of an exotic disease into captive, ‘insurance’ populations of species with tiny populations like the Orange-bellied Parrot would spell disaster. There is also a very real possibility of captive parrots escaping and establishing feral populations that compete with native birds for food and nesting hollows a situation we’ve seen time and time again in countries with more relaxed importation laws. Opening up the importation of parrots has significant risks and zero benefits, except for a few collectors, Sean continues. It underlines the need for strong national regulation and nature laws. In the wake of a global pandemic, exposing our birds to the risk of foreign diseases is not the answer. Our political leaders must deliver stronger nature laws to protect what is left. We stand firmly against this proposal. Please consider supporting our work fighting for stronger nature laws at https://www.actforbirds.org/ Orange-bellied Parrot by Andrew Silcocks

01.01.2022 SHARE YOUR SPRING SNAPS Have you got any photos that capture the essence of Spring? Michael Stephenson took this incredible shot of a flock of cockatoos zooming past a black swan nesting in Busselton.