There were 19 local citizen scientists who joined the Great Southern BioBlitz over the four day event.
The theme of the Greater Hume BioBlitz was “Love your Creek” and we also asked people to join the longer term ‘Refreshing Rivers Upper Billabong” iNaturalist project so we can share our observations in the catchment and build a great database of the plants, animals and other organisms that live here.
We blitzed the Ten Mile Creek at the Ian Geddes Bush reserve with the local schools – we even found a squirrel glider in one of the nest boxes!
The St Pats kids pulled a carp gudgeon out of the creek on Friday – great to see this small native fish still surviving.
You can view the results here https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/great-southern-bioblitz-2023-greater-hume
Watch this space for more citizen science activities with Refreshing Rivers, and join our iNaturalist groups to start recording today!
Local ecologist, Dan Hutton, had students looking at life up close with the prolific Australian glass shrimp. These Species provide a vital food source for our native fish. Eastern long necked turtled joined the show, learning how to differentiate male from female by looking at the underbelly.
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