Hear that sound … ?
Cicadas are magical insects that provide a familiar loud soundtrack to summer. But how much do you know about these amazing animals?
Cicadas are magical insects that provide a familiar loud soundtrack to summer. But how much do you know about these amazing animals?
If you can’t get out to see the wonders of nature first-hand, why not let the wonders of technology show you? At the end of August two white-bellied sea eagle chicks hatched in a nest 20 meters up an ironbark tree in Sydney’s Olympic Park. Three cameras provide a live feed for viewers all over the world!
Check out EagleCAM and the Eagle Diary on the Birdlife Australia website.
There’s also FalconCAM in Orange.
In October of each year, waterbirds are counted in an aerial survey that takes 100 flying hours. The Eastern Australian Waterbird Survey is an annual research project that records the numbers and distribution of 50 waterbird species, and checks the health of rivers and wetlands. Guess how many wetlands the survey covers? (answer below)
Check out the interactive map, plus pictures and videos on the project logs.
A UK teenager who taught himself to identify bird calls noticed the appearance, during lockdown, of rare birds in places normally occupied by people.
To share pictures, drawings, stories or poems about nature, email
npakids@npansw.org.au
In 2018 and 2019 bilbies were reintroduced into two NSW conservation areas. Up till then, this native mammal had not been seen in NSW National Parks for more than 100 years! And now Mallee Cliffs National Park in southwest NSW is home to a new generation of baby bilbies (known as joeys).
Find out more about the Greater Bilby and ecologists’ work to save the species on the Australian Wildlife Conservancy website.
June 2020 saw the first large-scale release in NSW of captive-bred Regent Honeyeaters, which is designed to boost the wild population. Learn more and listen to the bird call this critically endangered species.
abc.net.au/radio/newcastle/programs/breakfast/regent-honeyeaters/12379292
*Australian Painted Snipe
“In all things of nature there is something of the marvellous.”
-Aristotle
Cate Stewart, Nature Kids Editor
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