Healthy Habitat Project
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NQ Dry Tropics Healthy Habitat Project Creating healthy habitats for people and animals
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Healthy Habitat Project
- 1. NQ Dry TropicsHealthy Habitat Project Creating healthy habitats for people and animals
- 2. What are the 3 most important things we need for healthy living?
- 3. Which of these are the most important for healthy living?
- 4. We need fresh water, good food and somewhere safe to live.
- 5. If any one of these important things is removed, we quickly suffer.
- 6. Does this rule also apply to the birds that live in our woodlands?
- 7. Birds also need fresh water, good food and somewhere safe to live
- 8. The birds quickly suffer if we remove these 3 essentials
- 9. Townsville has some great woodland habitat for birds
- 10. Examples of GOOD native woodland habitat in Townsville
- 11. Examples of BAD native woodland habitat in Townsville
- 12. How do we maintain and manage our native habitat?
- 13. Firstly we must stop destroying our native habitat.
- 14. We must control our pets and domestic animals
- 15. Each cat catch 34 prey items per year – there are 2.5million cats.
- 16. Keep dogs on the leash when walking on the beach
- 17. We plant native trees and shrubs to replace those already lost.
- 18. Stuart school revegetation area 2 -3 years later.
- 19. We protect and preserve our fresh water supplies
- 20. The birds will tell us when we are doing the right things.
- 21. How many different birds can you find in your local area?
- 22. Some small seed eating finches Chestnut-breasted Mannikin Black-throated Finch Nutmeg Mannikin
- 23. Two birds found in Townsville’s parks and large gardens. Spangled Drongo Dollarbird
- 24. 3 different black and white birds – can you name them?
- 25. Birds that hunt for their food at night. Tawny Frogmouth Barking Owl
- 26. An Olive backed Sunbird - often seen in the yard and local park.
- 27. A Figbird, a Brown Honeyeater and a Great Bowerbird. Great Bowerbird Brown Honeyeater Australasian Figbird
- 28. A Checklist for good habitat in yard or paddock.
- 29. A checklist of the woodland birds likely to be seen
- 30. Free books to help identify the local birds in your yard.
- 31. We hope our talk today has made you think more about the native habitat where you live.
Editor's Notes
- A presentation on one of NQ Dry Tropics projects aiming to improve Biodiversity
- Here are a couple of woodlands birds that are also found in our parks and large gardens.
- So how do I get to see some of these birds?Firstly check your yard and local park.The Olive backed Sunbird is a spectacular looking bird that often nests close to our houses.
- Here are other birds often found in the garden. The Brown Honeyeater will always be present if you have native plants with nectar and love to bath in your bird baths. They are also the first bird you will hear in the morning.