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Nest-box Building for Native Birds
| When |
01 August 2012, 10:30 AM
to 30 August 2012, 12:30 PM |
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| Where | Piney Lakes Environmental Education Centre |
| Contact Name | Penny Musgrove |
| Contact Email | penelope.musgrove@melville.wa.gov.au |
| Contact Phone | (08) 9364 0790 |
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Come to Piney Lakes Environmental Education Centre to learn about the importance of nesting-hollows and to make your own to use in your backyard. Meet the excellent helpers from Bicton Men's Shed, on hand to show you how it's done! This is a great way for the family to spend their week-end morning.
Did you know that many of our native fauna require hollows to live in?
Hollows are a naturally occurring "hole" that forms in old trees. Many species of native trees form hollows, but they can take as long as 100 - 200 years to form. Our urban bush-lands are lacking in hollows, due to clearing of older trees, and the revegetated areas are too immature to have formed hollows since re-planting. Some local animal species that require hollows for nesting are Carnaby's Black Cockatoo, Forrest Red-tailed Black Cockatoo, Striated Pardalote, many species of bats and the Brush-tailed Possum (but there are more).
Do you have one of these species frequenting your backyard or local parkland? You can help them!
You can aid in sustaining native populations by providing artificial nesting hollows in your backyard. The Bicton Men's Shed are assisting Piney lakes Environmental Education Centre to teach you how to build an artificial hollow - or nesting box. This program will provide you with information on creating artificial hollows and maintaining them for wildlife. A practical demonstration using pre-prepared flat-packs of nesting boxes will be given, as prepared to DEC specifications by the Bicton Men's Shed. Each participant will then have the opportunity to assemble their own artificial nesting hollow to take home and mount in their own yards.
If your yard is visited by STRIATED PARDALOTES, PINK AND GREY GALAHS or any of the PARROT varieties, the flat-packs for either of these will be an option for you to choose in this workshop.
This program is run anually in August of each year, on a Saturday morning.
Stay tuned to this site in 2012 for the confirmed date.
COST: $25.00 per participant
Bookings ESSENTIAL to the Education Officer as places are limited
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