To commemorate COG’s (Canberra Ornithologists Group) 50th year COG is surveying the Gang-gang Cockatoo throughout the ACT and the COG area of concern. The survey started on 1 Feb 2014. There are also four intensive week long components of this survey scheduled during the year where, in Garden Bird Survey…
When: Sunday, 7th April, 8.30 am to 10.00 am; please note that daylight savings time will end the night before, so put your clocks back an hour. Where: Meet at the nature park access close to the intersection Tay St / Ian Nicol St at The Fair in North Watson…
Swift Parrots visited Mt Majura in previous years from end of March to begin of May. Most observations were from around the Hackett reservoir and the Majura paddock east of Rivett Street where they fed on nectar of Bundy and lerp of Yellow Box. If you observe Swift Parrots please contact…
The seeds of She-oaks are the sole food of the Glossy Black Cockatoo, a declining woodland bird, which is now declared vulnerable in the ACT. The dull black bird – the common name is somehow misleading – with the softest call of all local cockatoos can be readily observed on Mount…
If you know what to look for you will find hundreds of Common Onion Orchids (Microtis unifolia) currently flourishing on Mount Majura. This rather inconspicuous orchid grows in poorly drained sites and has been found growing in large colonies at seepage areas on the footslopes where degradation is limited. The…
The latest addition to the Mount Majura species list is the uncommon Lobelia gibbosa var. gibbosa. This is the only species of the genus Lobelia recorded in the ACT. The species was discovered end of November 2010 at two locations growing in open forest on rocky soil at the west…
The greenhood orchid Hooked Rustyhood,Oligochaetochilus hamatus syn. Pterostylis hamata was found on Mount Majura in recent days. This is the second orchid species of the genus discovered in the nature reserve (list of Mt Majura / Mt Ainslie plant species). The species is not common in the ACT. It occurs…
