081 - The Plains-wanderer with Saskia Gerhardy

A year or so back I spoke with Dan Nugent about one of Australia's strangest and rarest birds, the Plains-wanderer, and the work that Dan was doing monitoring the birds in the grasslands of Victoria and New South Wales. (If you haven't heard that episode already, you can grab it here ) In this episode we will hear about current work monitoring a western population of the Plains-wanderer that occurs in the state of South Australia, with Saskia Gerhardy, from the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, at the University of Adelaide. Saskia's work has been conducted alongside a project with Bush Heritage Australia, at Boolcoomatta Reserve, a property managed by this important conservation organisation. Bioacoustics are one of the major tools employed to monitor the very cryptic, nocturnal Plains-wanderer. Here is a recent article from the Bush Heritage magazine, Bushtracks , about the work that is happening at Boolcoomatta and the Plains-wanderer. If you want to follow the project with Saskia, and get updates, follow her on Instagram here . (@saskiagerhardy) If you want to see The Bird Emergency interviews as they happen, bookmark thebirdemergency.com/live Follow The Bird Emergency on Twitter @birdemergency or Instagram @thebirdemergency and we are beginning on Mastodon , because, you know, Elon. You can support the show by making a contribution by buying Grant a coffee here - If you enjoy the show, how about share with your friends or colleagues? Or you can review us at If you want to see interviews before they make into into the podcast feed, check out the YouTube channel , where the interviews are usually posted first.

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081 - The Plains-wanderer with Saskia Gerhardy is an episode from The Bird Emergency by Grant Williams.

This episode is 01:35:31 long.

This episode was published on Dec 4, 2022.

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