- We had a fantastic turnout of volunteers, which meant that all 16 sites could be covered with at least 2 volunteers at each site. (This is the first time we have covered all 16 sites since at least 2010).
- Weather conditions were ideal (2nd year running) with little or no wind to muffle the sound of calls and it was not really all that cold!
- Everyone got out to their respective positions in time; the earliest call was heard at 6.49am and by 6.55am every monitoring station had Lyrebirds calling.
- The official sunrise time for Saturday Jun 3rd at Balook was 7.23am and first light was scheduled to appear at 6.53am. So, it seems Lyrebirds are fairly well tuned to begin calling at first light.
- From our results, we detected 11 male birds calling, (not sure if it would be possibly with our method to detect two birds calling in close proximity to each other, but a couple of stations noted the possibility that they could possibly hear multiple birds calling from around the same direction.
- Note: we only count birds that are detected by at least 2 monitoring stations.
- This is our second highest number of birds recorded since at least 2010.
- Thanks to AGL who helped to pay for the breakfast.
Summary of results for the last 8 years.
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