This includes looking at factors affecting nesting outcomes in the Blue Mountains, the South Coast, Albury-Wodonga and the ACT. As part of its post-fire recovery funding the Commonwealth has asked eight delivery partners to apply for $745,000 to undertake Gang-gang research and recovery actions. Estimates of the national distribution impacted by the 2018/2019 fires range from 28 to 36%. The Gang-gang has been nominated as endangered under the Environment Protection Biodiversity Conservation ACT. The tree hollow dimensions that derived from this work were used in the design of Gang-gang nest tubes, which are about to be trialled. The location of core breeding areas has increased the conservation management of these areas and prevented proposed clearance. Information obtained that was new to science included the height, tree selection and dimensions of nesting hollows that only a small number of hollows are reused in consecutive years that non-nesting flooded hollows are an important Gang-gangs water source the rate of nesting success (1.4 fledglings per chick) and some chicks fall to the ground prior to fledging but can be successfully returned to a hollow. From this work 34 nesting hollows were identified and further studied. They watched 149 of these hollows, recording 850 observations.
In the 2018-2019 breeding season Canberra Naturemaprs submitted 165 sightings of Gang-gangs near hollows.
A citizen science project that has been studying Gang-gang nesting ecology in the Canberra area is being expanded and we need your help to learn more about how Gang-gangs are doing in your local area. We need your help to better understand this decline and to try and turn it around. Australia's expert verified citizen science platform donateĢ021-2022 The make or break year for Gang-gang researchĪcross their distribution Gang-gangs have had a 69% decline in reporting rate, within the last three decades.