Grow your knowledge about Australia’s two largest waterbirds. This episode is about Brolgas, Sarus Cranes and the Crane Count held each year in the Atherton Tablelands.

Edward Bell has worked and volunteered across a wide variety of conservation projects, including surveying parrots in the Caribbean and assisting in microbat research on three continents. His interest in birds developed with his arrival in Australia in 2019. He is the coordinator for the Crane Count on behalf of Birdlife Northern Queensland, which has been monitoring Sarus Crane numbers with citizen scientists for over twenty years. He is also currently studying a Bachelor of Science in Zoology and Ecology at James Cook University in Cairns.

Links:

* BirdLife Northern Queensland - Crane Count - www.birdlifenq.org/crane-project

* BirdLife Northern Queensland on Facebook - @BirdLifeNQ

* Australian Crane Network - Introducing Australian and New Guinea Cranes - www.ozcranes.net/species/

* Bird calls were recorded by Marc Anderson and licensed from www.wildambience.com

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