LONG REEF is the best place on Sydney’s Northern Beaches for a migratory shorebird encounter. It’s a brilliantly fascinating and vibrant intertidal, ecological hotspot: a real nature lover magnet! So it’s not unusual to find me stalking about the reef with scope and bins and magnifying glass, as I was yesterday, during a brief break [...]
On April 25, the Long Reef shorebird counting team conducted the first post migration count on the reef. Data collected elsewhere in Australia indicated that there had been failed breeding in 2008 by a number of shorebirds which breed in the high Arctic, including Bar-tailed Godwits (the race Menzbieri, which visit the west coast of [...]
To quote the great Edward O Wilson, biologist, entomologist, theorist, naturalist and author: “The totality of life, known as the biosphere to scientists . . . is a membrane of organisms wrapped around the Earth so thin it cannot be seen edgewise from a space shuttle, yet so internally complex that most species composing it [...]
It was during one of my first visits to Long Reef that I noted considerable numbers of limpets of the Siphonaria genus which had been turned over and left to die in the sun. I immediately concluded that Ruddy Turnstones, which make limpets a staple part of their diet and also possessing a proclivity for [...]
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