DELWP
Our crew just completed mapping 80 nests, 21 of them active, in remote Berrook State Forest.
Malleefowl scratch leaf-litter and sand into a 5-metre mound to incubate their eggs. They maintain the nest temperature at 33˚C – despite uncooperative temperatures climbing to 40-degrees or more.
The department and local community groups will monitor the nests annually to track numbers and protect this threatened species.
The data feeds into a national monitoring database used to inform breeding trends and population health across Australia.
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