Monthly Archives: May 2024

Friends of Lillico Penguins – Winter Working Bees

Friends of Lillico Penguins

Wednesday the 15th May marked the beginning of the ‘Winter working bees’ for the Friends of Lillico penguin volunteers. After a successful season of guiding and welcoming hundreds of tourists to the platform, the group now works to ensure the vegetation and the viewing platform will be ready for the next season. Volunteers were busy […]

Friends of the OBP search for Orange bellied parrots on King Island

From April 25th through May 1st, eleven members of the Friends of the Orange-bellied Parrot Wildcare group, aided by several other keen birders, participated in the great search for the elusive orange-bellied parrot (OBP) on King Island, under the expert leadership of Marianne Gee and Mark Holdsworth. The hope was that evidence would be found […]