Monday Megaphone with Holly Parsons Short - Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo Surveys
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Dr. Holly Parsons, the Manager - Urban Birds programs at Birdlife Australia, joins Grant Williams regularly to talk about issues of interest to Bird Nerds, and to meet some of the fabulous people running the Citizen Science projects, or undertaking vital research. Here is part of the most recent live stream, focusing on the upcoming Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo surveys, where there are opportunities for anyone to be involved. Grant and Holly were joined by Skye McPherson, Project Coordinator South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo Recovery Project.  Here are some places to be involved or find some more information; https://www.redtail.com.au Get involved in the various surveys;  http://www.redtail.com.au/annual-counts.html Here is the Facebook group that Skye mentioned; https://www.facebook.com/SERTBCRecoveryProject   Here are where you can check out Holly's projects at Birdlife Australia; https://birdsinbackyards.net https://birdlife.org.au/projects/urban-birds Follow The Bird Emergency socials!  Twitter @birdemergency or Instagram @thebirdemergency  We are trying to reach 500 subscribers on The Bird Emergency on YouTube, so I can put a bit more effort into the video side of things, so if you would like more visual content, please subscribe, and I will watch with interest if that's what you want!
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