Publications and Articles

        This section contains links to publications and articles which have been contributed to the site. Click on the links below to read the articles.

Superb Lyrebird
One of the many joys of living where I do is to wake up and hear (most mornings) the lyrebird(s) singing down in the gully on my place. The Lyrebird, I think, rates as one of Australia's most........

Tadpole Shrimp
An article on Tadpole Shrimp by Kaye Proudley

Road Kill
An article on road kill by Delia Falconer. Reproduced from The Monthly

Seed Collection and Plant Propagation

Notes prepared by our presenters of our seed collection and propagation workshop day. Click on links below to open PDF file.
Seed Collection
Plant Progagation

MYRTLE RUST

In recent weeks, several myrtle rust detections were made outside the metropolitan Melbourne area - at Ballarat, Shepparton, Tynong North and East Gippsland.

ANTECHINUS

Have you been outside on the verandah or inside the shed or maybe walking in the bush and seen a small, grey-brown creature hop or scurry away and thought ‘That was a mouse’. Well it may have been a common house mouse or it may have been an Agile Antechinus..............

ECHIDNA

I discovered the kindling stack in my wood shed spread across the floor one July evening. As I generally keep the wood shed door closed it was a mystery as to what had happened here. On entering the shed the next day I found the reason. An echidna was crossing the floor from the wood pile.............

FROGS

We have probably all ventured outside at night and heard frogs croaking their lungs out and thinking all the frogs in the district are gathered in this one area because of the extent of the noise.........

GOANNAS

If you are walking through the bush or driving along the road and are suddenly confronted with a goanna you may be excused for a momentary lapse into a Jurassic Park moment. Goannas or monitors are recorded as existing some 90 million years ago ........................

STRZELECKI KOALA

This is a very readable article about the pure Strzelecki koala, who haven't had their genetics interfered with by man, in the way of translocations of other populations from other areas and are therefore a genetically distinct population......

WOMBATS

Have you ever been outside at night on the back lawn or in the paddock and heard the continuous, almost machine like, “chomp chomp” sound or maybe been out in the bush and heard some hissing or a low deep growl which brings you to a sudden stop? More than likely you had encountered a wombat..................

SCIENTISTS FIND DRAMATIC INCREASE IN BIRDS

Well-planned revegetation on farms in southern Australia is leading to marked recovery in native woodland bird populations a major scientific study has found – and one of the main beneficiaries is the weebill, Australia’s tiniest bird............