I have a couple of weeks easier and then the rest of the month full on so I am going with the theme Things Aussie for this month - that way I can draw on images that I have when times get tough!
This week is Aussie fauna!
This isn't the best photo I have of a Regent Honeyeater but it is the most recent. They are beautiful birds and I spend a bit of time watching them at Taronga whenever I get the chance.
The Regent Honeyeater, with its brilliant flashes of yellow embroidery, was once seen overhead in flocks of hundreds. Today the Regent Honeyeater has become a 'flagship species' for conservation in the threatened box-ironbark forests of Victoria and NSW on which it depends.
Efforts to save the Regent Honeyeater will also help to conserve remnant communities of other threatened or near threatened animals and plants.
Through partnerships between government agencies, non-government organisations, community groups and landholders, efforts are being made to protect the Regent Honeyeater's habitat and ensure this species continues to exist i
So far, almost 200 birds have been bred at Taronga and released into the wild at Mt Chiltern, Victoria. Breeding between captive bred and wild birds has already been recorded which is evidence of the success of this conservation program.
