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Combined meeting with 2026 Feathery Festival, Connecting Country, and Birdlife Castlemaine Anthropogenic litter poses a significant global threat to birds for example by ingestion and entanglement. Hannah will tell us about her project to better understand bird–litter interactions through a citizen-science based image collection study. She found some unexpected interactions, revealing a broader range of interactions than

Donald Hobern is an amateur lepidopterist and Vice-President of Moths and Butterflies Australia. He is also an internationally recognised biodiversity informatics specialist and was the inaugural director of the Atlas of Living Australia. Donald has a particular interest in the beautiful plume moths (Pterophoridae) and many-plume moths (Alucitidae). Their name derives from the fact that

Like many other kinds of animals worldwide, snakes in Australia are in trouble: many populations are declining. In order to reverse that trend, we need to understand why it’s happening and find evidence-based ways to conserve snake populations. In this talk, eminent researcher Professor Rick Shine describes research projects that have addressed that aim –

The June meeting will be the first of our 3 winter meetings by Zoom for 2026. Brown Brood Frogs have sadly experienced a significant population decline across Victoria, attributed to habitat loss, altered water flows and the deadly disease, chytrid fungus. It is also likely that changes in seasonal rainfall, driven by climate change, may