As part of the pre-rodent monitoring, I have been working with OEH staff to monitor the flora by putting transacts in various forest types and record all plants and seedlings […]
With colleagues from IMAS in Tasmania and British Natural History Museum we carried out a population census of the Flesh footed shearwaters on the Island. These birds face a number […]
Nineteen people came along to participate in the November 2017 Bird week. The peak breeding season for the island’s seabirds put on a good show for us all the walks. […]
In October I was at the Island Arks conference in Fiji; and gave a presentation on the success to date of one island – Lord Howe Island – in reducing […]
In September the 3rd Landbird surveys were carried out on the island. This is part of pre-rodent eradication monitoring and was carried out with volunteers from Canberra Ornithological G roup.
18 September a Horsfields bronze cuckoo was seen around the airport terminal area feeding on ants in the short grass. Only the second record of this bird on Lord Howe […]
On 9th September Mark Ley of Woodford NSW spotted a Brown songlark at the Old Settlement paddock – this is the first record of this bird for Lord Howe Island […]
In August the 83rd Friends of Lord Howe Island weeding ecotour was run. It was just a small group, but had an important task to complete – to cut and […]
April 2016 Neil Oliver and the team from Coast visited Lord Howe Island for a series about coast around Australia. I took them on a walk south to explain the […]
The fourth year this has run, and another great group of 12 enthusiastic students keen to lean about how plant and animal species reach an island; and the process that […]