PHOTO: Thomasina was tagged on 5 October and named in honour of Birding NSW president Tom Karplus. PHOTO: Australian Painted Snipe Information and Tracking Project
Conservationists made a rare breakthrough in the Macquarie Marshes this month when they tagged a tracker onto five Australian Painted Snipes (APS).
The endangered species, which in a 2021 population count recorded just 340 mature-age birds, don't tend to stay in one spot for long.
In fact, NSW wildlife ecologist Matt Herring's team had only caught two since they began tracking . . .
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