Nestbox Installation & Checking
Volunteers checking a nest box for Leadbeater's Possums. Photo: Joanne Antrobus.
In conjunction with Parks Victoria FLBP volunteers are regularly required to assist with Leadbeater’s Possum nest box installation and checking. Nest boxes assist the ongoing survival of Leadbeater’s Possum by providing additional homes to supplement the natural tree hollows in key Leadbeater’s Possum habitat in Victoria’s Central Highlands and at Yellingbo Nature Conservation Reserve (NCR).
Nest box installation activites are undertaken as required. Whilst nest box checking usually occurs twice a year in autumn and spring.
This activity does require a reasonable level of fitness as to assist volunteers are often required to walk varying distances through thick vegetation on uneven ground. In addition volunteers may be required to carry nest boxes (which weigh over 10kg) and/or ladders over this terrain to assist with the activity. BUT this volunteering experience is a great chance to get to some remote areas of our native forests in Victoria and you might just get to see a Leadbeater’s Possum!
Lake Mountain Nestbox Checking. October & November 2011.
Volunteers are required for Lake Mountain Nestbox checking. Upto 3 volunteers are needed for each day of the nestbox checking program. These will be all day events and require some physical activity as volunteers will be required to walk varying distances over rough ground often carrying equipment such as nest boxes and ladders.
Nestboxes will be checked as part of the Project Possum and Adopt-a-Nestbox Programs. Dates are October 31 and November 4, 6, 8 and 11. Please contact Joanne Antrobus from Parks Victoria directly if you are interested:Â Â jantrobus@parks.vic.gov.au
Installed plastic nest box with unique Leadbeater's Possum nest present. Photo: Joanne Antrobus.
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