Sweet Winter nectar
July 18, 2007 — Filed in: Conservation
Two of Australia’s endangered bird species, the Regent Honeyeater and the Swift Parrot, are attracting regional attention as they make the most of winter rains bringing our native eucalypts into flower.
Glen Johnson, from the Department of Sustainability and Environment, says the timeliness of these flowering winter gums is directing the threatened birds to the area. “We have had an evolution of many of our eucalypts making hay while the rain falls and actually coinciding their flowering with the proliferation of the winter rain.”
