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Report by Tanya Pyk and Grainne Maguire

BirdLife Australia

June 2012

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Introduction

It was certainly a wild day to be looking out on the Nobbies at the ocean pummelling the rocks and the

tourists braving the gale force winds and driving rain for a brief look at the stunning view. And there we were, 110 people interested in Hooded Plover conservation, spending a day together hearing about the research and work going on around the Eastern mainland of Australia to help recover this species in the face of ever increasing threats. It was the first time such a diverse group, representative of different volunteer groups, local and state government departments, NRM Boards and universities have gathered in the one room. Participants travelled from as far away as Streaky Bay on the Eyre Peninsula and Merrimbula on the NSW coast, and in total 21 regions were represented. Below are short summaries of the major points covered by each of the 16 presenters. We have made available the PDFs of each presentation for upload from a Dropbox account for the months of June/July via the link:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/yq5m5d1ijwd9nwa/LNnoo4nLwl

Presentations

Research and management of Hooded Plovers on Phillip Island, 1992-2012: some good news and a few mysteries (Peter Dann, Bob Baird, Jarvis Weston, Jon Fallaw, Roz Jessop & Hooded Plover Watch: Phillip Island Nature Parks)

• Surveys of breeding numbers began in 1981 and breeding success in 1982 and found that breeding

population was declining significantly, with 83% of clutches failing mostly due to human induced

changes.

• A variety of management options were trialled including fox control, volunteer involvement, public

education, and caging nests.

• Predator cages (exclosures) resulted in hatching success doubling, but fledging success halved and

there was no overall increase in breeding success. Suspected due to goshawks and other predators

being made aware of nest due to cage, and having greater ambush opportunities to depredate adults

and chicks.

Philip Island Nature Parks (PINP) Hooded Plover Breeding Season 2011/12 (Jarvis Weston: Phillip Island Nature Parks)

• Summary: 37 nests, 31 failed, 85 eggs, 25 chicks, 12 fledged.

• A record number of chicks fledged.

• All successful nests were on the north coast of the island, and an increasing number of beaches were

being used.

• Egg loss was still a concern.

• Eleven cameras were deployed and recorded 3 nest failures due to a water rat and 2 ravens.

• A pair established a territory at Red Rocks (1st nest in over 20 years) and successfully (with

enormous effort from volunteers) fledged 2 chicks.

• Banding at Phillip Island continuing.

Hooded Plover Population Recovery: This season’s Victorian breeding results and a 5 year overview of breeding success (Grainne Maguire: BirdLife Australia)

• Beach-nesting Birds Project – A multi-faceted approach: on-ground conservation; research;

education and advocacy.

• Long-term vision:

• Population viable and range protected,

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• No further degradation of beaches,

• Beach use synonymous with helping BNBs,

• Management plans and policy which account for birds needs,

• Minimal and shared on-ground efforts.

• Results:

• Most nests were found November to January (peak in breeding) and nests found later in the

season had a higher likelihood of fledging young successfully than nests early in the season.

• Across 90-100 breeding sites in Victoria, the number of fledglings for each season ranged

between 30 – 40, except for the 2009/10 season (70 fledglings). NSW reported a similar result in

terms of the 2009 season being a particularly productive one.

• Fledglings/pair varies greatly between regions and over seasons (average 0.42 across Victoria)

but it is critical that if a region is going to have a poor season, that this is counterbalanced by

other regions having greater success in that same season, and over time, a region needs to have

highs to counterbalance lows. Mornington Peninsula however, has an alarming pattern of

consistently low productivity over time.

• Similarly, looking at site productivity, over time you would hope to have at least one

contribution from every pair/site and if you look at Bellarine/Surf Coast for example, each season

you have between 3 and 4 pairs contributing – this usually varies (with exception of one pair who

consistently succeed: Pt Roadknight tip). The concern is 30W with no contribution over at least 6

seasons.

• Currently analysing data on dog leashing and how this varies with regulations and regions.

• Management gave the birds a 400% greater chance of fledging chicks.

• Recent directions of the project:

• Population demographics and dispersal (banding project),

• Modelling habitat suitability.

Events and Education: Beach-nesting Birds program in 2012 including public feedback results, education, volunteer satisfaction survey (Meghan Cullen: BirdLife Australia)

• The project delivered:

• 33 volunteer training sessions with up to 500 current, new and potential volunteers,

• School events reaching 20 different schools,

• Teacher professional development reaching approximately 100 Victorian and South Australian

teachers,

• 45 kids activities and community events reaching over 2800 individuals.

• 2 major events where we developed protocols to ensure the events didn’t impact birds and

where we educated over 3000 people (Rip to River Run, Kangaroo Island Surf Pro).

• Public feedback results:

• Almost 75% of 875 conversations between staff or volunteers and beach users were effective

and positive.

• Most people listened and co-operated, those with dogs mostly turned back, kept to the waters

edge or put their dog on a leash.

• Volunteer satisfaction survey:

• The most important factors for motivating volunteers were an interest in birds and

conservation, wanting to make a difference and enjoyment of beach walking.

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• Most volunteers first learnt about volunteering opportunities through a friend/family/neighbour

or their local community group.

• Lack of time commitments was the main factor preventing people from participating in

activities.

• New website provides greater ease of finding information relevant to you with separate pages

for kids and teachers, volunteers, land managers, etc.

Nest fates revealed by remote camera monitoring and factors influencing nesting success (Renee Mead: Honours student Deakin University)

• Deployed cameras on 81 nests across Victorian coast, with 38 clutches failing and 26 being

successful.

• The main causes of nest failure were foxes, ravens and magpies.

• Clutch failure was highest for beach nests, hatching success was highest for foredune nests.

• For nests with active management 15 of 35 clutches hatched, and for nests with no active

management 11 of 29 clutches hatched.

• Only one nest failure was due to human crushing.

• No relationship between the likelihood of nest predation and various habitat features was found, i.e.

the birds do not appear to be able to avoid predation by varying their nest placement and so the

amount of vegetation, the slope, the distance from the base of the dune, etc, do not impact the fate

of the nest.

A Broad-scale test of Conditioned Aversion and habitat features influencing the likelihood of

nest depredation (Aimie Cribbin: Honours student Deakin University)

• Conditioned aversion relies on negative reinforcement by inducing sickness and can be particularly

effective on intelligent, territorial predators (eg. foxes).

• Quail eggs were filled with Sodium carbonate and placed in fake nests with cameras to observe fate.

• Foxes were found not to be the dominant predator with only 9% of egg takes by foxes and 65% by

ravens and 15 % by rodents.

• No conditioned aversion was formed in any predator.

• Conditioned aversion is not promising on a broad scale as previously believed.

• The likelihood of an artificial nest being depredated was influenced by distance to a dead object (a

nest was ‘safer’ from predators if by a stick for example) and the grassiness of the dune (e.g. the

more grassy, the higher likelihood of a predator finding and eating the eggs).

Threat Abatement: The use of artificial nests to monitor effectiveness of threat abatement in

South Eastern South Australia. (Friends of Shorebirds SE)

• Two beaches were compared – one with fox baiting and one without.

• Quail eggs were used in false nests on both beaches to determine egg predation as a means of

detecting a difference between baited and unbaited beaches.

• Predation was higher at nests on unbaited beaches, and percentage of fox tracks near nests was

higher on unbaited beaches.

• Ravens also took quail eggs.

• Were ravens associating pink ribbons used by researchers to locate their false nests?

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Just how bad are coastal weeds? How do we decide if they are worth controlling? (Prof Roger Cousens, The University of Melbourne)

• Impacts of weeds include weed-native plant impacts; weed-physical impacts; weed-animal impacts.

• Some animal uses for weeds include shade/shelter and foraging habitat.

• People surveyed for their preference of visual coastal environment preferred an even cover of

vegetation (Marram rather than Sea Spurge).

• Weed control in Victoria costs approx $30million annually and much work is done by volunteers.

• Weed impacts: weed-native – almost no Australia info; weed-physical: Marram makes dunes face

steeper; Sea Wheat-grass most dramatically alters foredune shape and is most overlooked weed in

Australia; weed-animal: mostly anecdotal

What has peer education got to do with a slippery fish or a Hooded Plover? Peer education for environmental change (Grahame Collier, T Issues Consultancy)

• Peer education often works in areas where there is dissonance: for beach users the needs of the dog

are coming first, for volunteers the needs of the birds are coming first.

• Doing peer education more smartly:

• Understanding behaviour shift and how to motivate it;

• Talking in the common ground (this is a stepping stone in a conversation that allows you to

then introduce a new concept or something that you don’t have in common, ie. it’s an

icebreaker!);

• Being assertive rather than passive or aggressive.

• People fall into different categories according to how receptive they are to change, and the best

chance you have of changing behaviour is with the people who are at the ‘tipping point’ or in the

‘preparation phase’ (recommended reading: ‘The Tipping Point’)

• Assertive not passive or aggressive - Key concepts:

• Seeking a win/win solution if possible;

• Respecting the other person but respecting yourself more;

• Being non-aggressive in manner and language;

• Broken recording – holding your ground and restating your view;

• Not using the word ‘but’ and assertively disputing their use of that word;

• Asking smart questions.

• Keep trying and learning; use carrots and sticks; focus on success stories and share them.

NSW South Coast Shorebird Recovery Program: Sharing the shoreline (Robyn Kesby, NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service)

• Program began with the Little Tern (endangered) as the flagship species and then expanded to

include pied oystercatcher (endangered), sooty oystercatcher (vulnerable), hooded plover (critically

endangered). There are also two locations where fairy terns breed amongst little terns.

• Project spans from Wollongong to Victorian border, over 300kms with only 22 breeding pairs. Within

this range there is a 100km gap where the species no longer breeds/occurs.

• Hooded plover – breeding success over 11 years increasing; however, breeding success is stemming

from only a few pairs/sites. There have been 154 fledglings in 11 years. Where do they go?

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• Three shorebird officers: Jodie Dunn (Ulladulla), Amy Harris (Narooma) and Robyn Kesby

(Merrimbula)

• Southern sites are remote and less impacted by people, so nest sites are rarely actively protected.

However northern sites are heavily impacted and management increases breeding success at these

sites.

• Managing threats:

• Using fox detection dogs to find fox dens

• Shooting foxes

• Nest cages (similar finding to Phillip Island, did not increase fledging success and not used in

south, but still used in north)

• Community engagement and awareness including a YouTube video ‘Saving our shorebirds’

• The future:

• Maintain funding for the Shorebird Recovery Program – coordinators and equipment

• Maintain volunteer involvement

• Get banding program happening

• Keep licences up to date eg. Research permits, Animal Care and Ethics, shooting plans

• Establish stronger links with southern neighbours

Fleurieu Peninsula Hooded Plover program (Emma Stephens, Adelaide and Mount Lofty

Ranges NRM Coast, Estuary and Marine Officer)

• 22 breeding pairs on high recreation use beaches with monitoring occurring since 2006

• Breeding success fairly constant (between 34% - 57%)

• Management used include: fencing, signs, and shelters

• Use council management response plans to ensure local councils know how to act if a nest is found

or reported, including communication lines and steps for action

• Provided fencing kits to each council

• Also hold education and community awareness (eg. dog’s breakfasts, kids craft activities); ‘pup

cakes’ a successful ingredient for dogs breakfasts!

• Banding has recently begun

Reviewing vehicle access to beaches on Yorke Peninsula (Deb Allen, Natural Resource Management - Coastal, Rural Solutions SA)

• Boat launching and vehicle access occurs on most beaches on Yorke peninsula

• Reviewing: vehicle access management strategy; YP coastal assessment report; management

actions

• Recommendations:

• Speed restriction of 20kph for beaches (currently no speed restrictions and default speed is

100km/hr unless signed!)

• Beaches within shack settlements for boat launching only – no other vehicle access permitted

• Friends of Hooded Plover, Yorke Peninsula group - recently formed

• Signs on all Hooded Plover beaches

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Managing biodiversity through increased community participation (Deb Furbank, Department

of Environment & Natural Resources, SA)

• The Yorke Peninsula consists of 485kms of coastline, with a permanent population of <520 people,

and is popular with tourists.

• Management challenges include many kms of dunes that recreational vehicles drive over;

recreational vehicles damaging private property by taking shortcuts through sand dunes to access

beaches; local farmers very keen to protect the local coastline and actively involved in this

• Some management solutions/successes:

• Vehicle barriers,

• Educational signage,

• Revegetation and weed removal (e.g. sprayed 3 of 7km of Formby Bay beach daisy

infestation),

• Hooded Plover monitoring workshops,

• ‘Biodiversity Blitz’,

• Collaborations between Coastcare, BirdLife Australia and DENR.

Scoping the Shoreline program and challenges for Hooded Plover conservation on Eyre Peninsula (Jane Cooper, Volunteer)

• Eyre Peninsula has thousands of kms of coastline and a small and fragmented human population

with ‘few birdos’

• Engaging volunteers in such a region is an enormous challenge and volunteers put in enormous

amounts of effort and money (particularly petrol costs) to participate in monitoring/surveying

• Between October 2006 and July 2010 aimed to:

• Record presence & abundance of resident shorebirds at 51 selected sites

• Assess the levels of disturbance impacting shorebirds at the same sites

• Survey & map Hooded Plover territorial pairs & identify sites for long term monitoring

• Increase community awareness of shorebird habitat and ecology

• Use the data to guide management

• Results:

• 23 sites recorded high levels of disturbance likely to adversely impact on conservation status of

target species.

• Vehicles on 43 of 46 sites

• Unleashed dogs on 28 of 29 unprotected sites

• Extensive high tide-storm surge destruction observed at 20 high energy sites

• Broader dune buffers form a buffer from agricultural land and result in fewer fox issues for

birds

• Density of hooded plovers is 1.5/km on high energy beaches and 1.8/km on mid energy

beaches.

Foraging ecology of a beach-dwelling shorebird and the influence of spatially and temporally dynamic resources (Natalie Sheppard, PhD student Deakin University/Phillip Island Nature Parks)

• Investigating Hooded Plover prey availability and diet composition in winter and in the breeding

season

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• Used core sampling and pitfall traps on 4 sections of beach: swash, lower beach, upper beach, dune

• Collecting hoodie poo!

• Found a range of prey items in the diet (amphiopods, beetles, worms, spiders, larvae)

Launch of Stage 1 of the ‘My Hoodie’ Online Data Portal (Glenn Ehmke)

• Currently, data arrives to BirdLife Australia in many different forms, including data sheets, various

excel spreadsheets kept by different regions, updates on a google map, and information within

emails. This takes horrendous amounts of time to meld into the one database with consistent fields

ready for analysis. It means that we often do not know how a season went until well into the next

season, due to the lag in entering, vetting and analysing data.

• To enable data to be entered into the one centralised database and viewed in real time, we have

contracted Empowered Websites to create an online data portal on the myhoodie.com.au website.

• This enables us to be able to check different pairs or regions to determine which pairs have been

recently visited, which are in desperate need of management, which are due to hatch, etc.

Volunteers, land managers and BirdLife Australia staff will all be able to see this information and

communicate more promptly with one another.

• Glenn’s presentation took us through screen shots of each page within the portal and a short video

of how to use the site to enter and access information.

• This data will not be visible to the general public and there will be strict controls on logins and access

to the data portal to ensure the confidentiality of the information and so it is not misused.

• This portal will be officially ready to use in August, stay tuned.

Afternoon workshop sessions

Session 1. Talking to the public

One of the main challenges facing the effectiveness of Hooded Plover conservation efforts is raising public awareness and successfully bringing about behaviour changes amongst beach users. Without the public complying and sympathising with these birds, it is a long slow road ahead. Interactions with the public can be challenging, sometimes confrontational, and so Grahame Collier from T-issues Consultancy (www.tissues.com.au) offered advice on how to best convey your message and be assertive. Some key points were:

• What words can you use to be assertive and 1) at the same time not alienate the person you want to

talk to or 2) be too passive to be taken seriously?

• Ask yourself, ‘do I feel confident and comfortable in approaching this person and talking to them?’

and ‘is the conversation still happening? Is the door still open?’ The answer to both these questions

needs to be yes. If it isn’t then you have lost the person you were trying to reach.

• Not only are words important, but tone and body language play a major role; maintain eye contact,

stand upright, face the person directly, use a confident but non-aggressive tone.

• Beginning a sentence with ‘Look here’, ‘Listen’, ‘Hey you’, can be too abrupt a way to start a

conversation and often this won’t end effectively.

• The way you ask ‘Are you aware?’ can differ greatly dependent on tone. It is important not to say

this aggressively or in a ‘know it all’ fashion, instead say it with a friendly tone that is offering

information and calmly asking a question of the person.

• Know your subject and be ready to have lots of facts on hand to assist your explanations.

• Hold your ground and restate your view multiple times.

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• Do not use the word ‘but’ and assertively dispute their use of this word.

• Try to seek a win/win solution if possible.

• The 3 things you want to convey are: I feel…when you…because. For example, ‘I’m not sure if you

know but there are hooded plovers nesting here. I feel concerned about the chick when your dog is

off the leash because the chicks can’t fly and have less than a 5% chance of survival. Is there

something we can do to protect the birds?

• Exploring the conflict that might exist in a friendly conversation can be one method of tackling an

issue. Finding the common ground, i.e. love of the beach, and beginning with this before

broaching/recognising your differences, e.g. I know that your dog loves the beach and to run about,

and I’m here on the beach because I love the birds and they can’t raise their chicks when there are

off-leash dogs about. How can we work this out? There’s got to be a way… and this way you are

including the person in the solution.

• Over half of existing volunteers also are dog owners, so the common ground is clearly having a dog

and loving it, so here you can offer the areas where you walk your dog as alternatives, etc.

• One suggested way of responding to a common response by a dog walker ‘my dog doesn’t bother

the birds’ is to say ‘yes your dog seems really well-behaved, but if other people with dogs that

mightn’t be as well-behaved as yours, see you walking with your dog off the lead, then they will

think they can do the same’

• Include yourself in the behaviour change you are seeking, i.e. if you would like someone to move

from sitting inside or in front of a fenced area, you can introduce yourself and say that you are there

to check on the nest, and then say you’ve exceeded the time you’re supposed to spend in the area,

‘we all should move out of this area together’.

Grahame has also provided some articles of interest for your reading, in our Dropbox link, and welcomes any emails or questions you might have of him, see contact list on last page of this report.

Session 2. Interpretive materials

Bruce Atkin from Coast Action/Coastcare (South Gippsland) took the group through different ideas for signage and discussed key elements of design and their effectiveness at conveying environmental messaging. Some key points were :

• Interpreters of environmental issues are like people who interpret a language and the culture of the

people who speak it.

• Interpretation is an ART not a science

• Interpreters are trying to:

• Explain inter-relationships

• Convey their feelings or values

• Place people in an environmental and cultural context to engender a response of sympathy

• Help visitors understand something in particular

• Place visitors in an environmental or cultural context

• In the case of beach-nesting birds: change visitor behaviour

• Interpretation sometimes circumvents enforcement.

• Consider who you are trying to reach and factors such as: age, ethnicity, socio-economic group,

literacy, tourist or local, dog-owner - ie 'Identify the target before firing the shots'

• There is a wide array of interpretive methods that we can use – carefully consider what best suits

your particular situation.

• We looked at benefits of good interpretation and then looked at and discussed the merits of several

examples of interpretive signage with a particular focus on signage produced to help protect HPs.

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Session 3. Shorebird ID session

Golo Maurer from BirdLife Australia’s Shorebirds 2020 program ran two sessions on learning how to identify shorebirds, as most would agree that this is a great challenge! An enthusiastic flock of Hoodie volunteers joined two Shorebird ID Sessions taking on the challenge of telling apart the little grey things running through our Wetlands and Beaches in summer. Apart from the brand-new Shorebird ID booklet they took home the knowledge that:

• Shorebird ID is not rocket science but the science based on shorebird counts is essential for their

conservation.

• In the shorebird game, practice makes near perfect and can be a lot of fun alone or even more in a

group.

• Shorebird ID is as much about the behaviour, location and habitat of the birds as it is about shades

of grey and other plumage characteristics.

• Even just one count a year in your shorebird area will help us get a better idea of population trends

nationwide.

If you want to keep working away at your shorebird ID skills there are workshops every summer held by

Shorebirds 2020 around the country and you can of course order in a free Shorebird ID booklet for you and your friends/kids/cousin-twice-removed from shorebirds@birdlife.org.au/

Session 4. Nest protection

Several of BirdLife Australia’s staff facilitated these sessions where we discussed many aspects of nest and chick site protection, including:

• Decision making about whether to sign or fence a nest or whether to leave it unmanaged

• Size and shape of fenced areas

• Distance signs should be away from fencing

• How to be prepared to put up a fence efficiently (e.g. have your rope on a reel, can buy hose reels

from hardware stores) and safely (e.g. predator checks)

• How to adapt the site after hatching, often best to take down the enclosed fence and reconfigure it

into two fence ends that define the area the chicks use

• For busy weekends where there are nests or chicks at risk, it can be wise to extend the fence and

bring the signs down onto the wet sand so they are more prominent and the area is more obviously

delineated as a ‘no-go’ conservation zone.

A handout with advice and photo examples of nest and chick site protection set ups, plus flowcharts for decision-making was given to participants. This is available on our Dropbox link.

Session 5. Volunteering

Unfortunately we had a last minute cancellation from Volunteer Victoria due to unforeseeable circumstances, but luckily they were able to send down some activities so the workshop could still go ahead. There was limited time to get through all of the activities, particularly as wild weather cut the second session short. We worked in groups to rank a number of different volunteer group attributes, such as 'Well trained volunteer coordinator', ' Induction' and 'Ongoing training' from most important to least. This is a great activity for discussing different ideas on volunteering and how groups can function. Within the groups

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there was a diverse array of people from volunteers, to volunteer regional coordinators, to those who

manage volunteers as part of a paid position. 'Well trained volunteer coordinator’ and 'Supervision/Recognition/ Appreciation' were in general rated as the most important factors for volunteer groups to run effectively. For volunteer groups coordinated by a land manager or coordinator from a medium to large organisation, 'Policies and Procedures’ rated most highly, while for voluntary coordinators, ‘ongoing training’ and ‘recruitment’ were rated higher. Overall it was concluded that for volunteer groups to function well, clear plans/goals/instructions should be determined prior to any activities being carried out and that communication of these aspects should occur at the beginning of the project and continue throughout the project, with capacity to evolve.

Future workshop

The day was full of interesting information and what we've realised is that because there are just so many regions and groups now involved, we really need to run the workshop across two days in future. That way we can hear from everyone without the impossible-to-stick-to time limits, get a chance to have more question time after each speaker, and group discussions. We will also incorporate some social time for networking and sharing of ideas as many of you have asked for this opportunity. Next year’s workshop is likely to be held either at Queenscliff or Torquay and the year after, potentially in Adelaide. If you have any venue ideas, please let us know.

Acknowledgements

Thank you greatly to the Australian Government’s Caring for our Country and the Victorian Natural Resource Investment Program for funding BirdLife Australia to organise and run this event and for

contributions to catering and accommodation; to Phillip Island Nature Park for providing a unique venue, beds for weary travellers and lunch; to Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges NRM Board for sponsoring participants from the Fleurieu Peninsula to attend; to all the speakers who braved a big crowd and gave us so much to think about; to Grahame Collier from T-issues Consultancy for adding great value to the day; to Bruce Atkin for volunteering to run a very informative session on interps; to Kasun Ekanayake and Glenn Ehmke for volunteering their time to share their experiences and knowledge about nest site protection; to Aimie Cribbin for all her assistance on the day and rarely escaping the kitchen; to Jon Fallaw for greatly assisting with setting up the room; to Golo Maurer and Kasun Ekanayake for getting people safely home and to the airport; to Renee Mead for lending Meg her car to get attendees home when Meg’s broke down!; to Roz Jessop for organising penguin parade visits for participants staying overnight; and to Aviv Cakes and Bagels in Glenhuntly Road Elsternwick for baking delicious quiches and cakes! An extra special thanks to Alice Gouzerh, who has been our intern over the past 4 months and

whom we could not have done this without.

For more information, please contact BirdLife Australia’s Beach-

nesting Birds Team at hoodedplover@birdlife.org.au or on 03 9347

0757. Alternatively visit our website : www.birdlife.org.au/beach

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Contact email addresses of presenters and workshop facilitators

Name Organisation Email

Aimie Cribbin Deakin University, student aimiecribbin@gmail.com

Bruce Atkin Coast Action/Coastcare, DSE Bruce.Atkin@dse.vic.gov.au

Dan Weller BirdLife Australia dan.weller@birdlife.org.au

Deb Allen Coastcare, Rural Solutions SA Deborah.Allen@sa.gov.au

Deb Furbank DENR SA Deborah.Furbank@sa.gov.au

Emma Stephens ALMR NRM hosted by City of Holdfast Bay EStephens@holdfast.sa.gov.au

Glenn Ehmke BirdLife Australia glenn.ehmke@birdlife.org.au

Golo Maurer BirdLife Australia golo.maurer@birdlife.org.au

Grahame Collier T-Issues Consultancy grahame@tissues.com.au

Grainne Maguire BirdLife Australia grainne.maguire@birdlife.org.au

Jane Cooper Friends of Streaky Bay gerygone43@bigpond.com

Jarvis Weston Phillip Island Nature Parks jweston@penguins.org.au

Kasun Ekanayake Deakin University, student kbekanay@deakin.edu.au

Maureen Christie Friends of Shorebirds SE twinpeppercorns@gmail.com

Meghan Cullen BirdLife Australia meghan.cullen@birdlife.org.au

Natalie Sheppard Deakin University, student nsheppar@deakin.edu.au

Peter Dann Phillip Island Nature Parks pdann@penguins.org.au

Renee Mead Deakin University, student renee.e.mead@gmail.com

Robyn Kesby NSW NPWS Robyn.Kesby@environment.nsw.gov.au

Roger Cousens The University of Melbourne rcousens@unimelb.edu.au

Tanya Pyk BirdLife Australia tanya.pyk@birdlife.org.au