Read “Robbie’s gone a roaming“, the Spring 2016 Australian Birdlife article detailing the full 323-day journey of the first ever Australasian Bittern to be satellite tracked.
Rice crops in the New South Wales Riverina support the largest known breeding population of the endangered Australasian Bittern. But where do they go after the rice is harvested? Matt Herring, Inka Veltheim and Andrew Silcocks shed some light on this mystery, thanks to crowd-funded satellite transmitters and a trailblazing bird. … Read on here.
[…] Where will these six new satellite trackers take us? Stay tuned. For a full update on the tracking work to date, read this article in the Spring edition of Australian Birdlife. […]