Every few years cormorants visit Lord howe Island. Spotted this week this juvenile Great cormorant on the rocks near the jetty
October and November the Little shearwaters are fledging and we sometimes spot them at sea having rest on the water. This one out near Balls Pyramid.
A week carrying out landbird surveys as part of pre rodent eradication monitoring. This is the 5th survey and we visited 96 sites for 10 minute bird counts, twice each […]
10 people along for this week to assist with conservation on the island. Some very productive work removing Sea Spurge form the beaches, including an area that has not yet […]
In July the Lord Howe Island Museum and Australian Museum as part of Conservation Volunteers program ran a Beetle Week. Dr Chris Reid from A. M. and I led the […]
Thirteen students from Victoria University Wellington New Zealand came to the island for a week to go out into the field and observe, measure and test the various Island Biology […]
This was the 84th Friends of Lord Howe Island weeding trip. Twenty-two People came along, and hours was contributed to conservation on the island. A variety of weed species were […]
In May the team from ABC Gardening show visited the Island filming segments for screenng tbis year. The three stories filmed were – an overview of the Island and its […]
This April 2018 shearwater research fortnight was a busy one – we processed about 180 birds – either lavarging to monitor plastic, or necropsy dead ones to see what plastic […]
March is an excellent time for birds on the island – most of our summer seabirds are still on the island, and the Providence petrels have just returned for winter […]