Happy snipe Christmas!

December 22, 2017

Hi everyone,

As the end of the year fast approaches, we’re reflecting on another successful year on the snipe project.

We’ve caught record numbers of snipe at Port Fairy and Canberra (even though we didn’t get any more geolocators), had a great involvement in the two south-eastern snipe counts so far this year (stay tuned for results) and the radio-tracking at Port Fairy is delivering some fascinating results.

2018 is also looking busy with a trip to Japan in May to assist in population surveys in Hokkaido and outreach with Japanese schools, plus a lot data analysis.

Thanks for all your efforts and interest this year, and stay tuned! We leave you this year with a great little animation of snipe from a remote camera trap at St Helens from the Basalt to Bay Landcare Network:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL5xUezs30Q&feature=youtu.be.

Image (c) Richard Chamberlain