Black Ducks : Pacific Black Duck Conservation and identifying hybrid ducks in the field – Jason Graham
Time and Place
Thursday August 7th
7.15 pm for a 7.30 pm start
UTAS Sandy Bay Campus in the Law Building Seminar Room (Room 132)
See below for the venue details
About
Jason Graham is the convenor of the Pacific Black Duck (PBD) Conservation Group (PBDCG) with Landcare Tasmania and a registered native duck rehabilitator. Many areas of Tasmania that should be home to PBDs are degraded by feral ducks and geese and in New Zealand they are expected to go extinct in the near future due to introgressive hybridisation.
Jason will discuss the issue of PBD hybridisation in Tasmania and tell us of the various projects being undertaken by the Landcare Group to protect PBDs and other native Tasmanian ducks. Learn how to distinguish PBDs and hybrids and how to help protect them!
Registration for non-members
Non-members are welcome, and registration is optional.
If you think that the club is a good fit for you and you would like to regularly attend events then we ask you sign up as a member (https://tasfieldnats.org.au/member)
Venue
We use the rear entrance to the building and access is easy – from the corner of Grosvenor St and Alexander St (see red star and arrows on map) walk down the laneway on the northern side of the Law Building and enter via the sliding doors at the back of the building. There should be plenty of parking available close by along Grosvenor St just past View St or on Dobson Road which is one-way down (see green squares). Sometimes sports practice is taking a lot of the parking along Grosvenor Crescent by the oval. Bring a torch if you are worried about the footpaths.
On entry into the lower foyer please enter your name and phone number on the meeting attendance sheet. Access will be from 7.15pm.
Hope to see you there!
We acknowledge and pay our respects to the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we study natural history.