One out of five ain’t bad when you’re looking for squirrel gliders in nestboxes.
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But considering the boxes in question have only been at Clyde Cameron Reserve in Wodonga for three months, it’s a fantastic find.
Volunteers conducted a monitoring day on Monday, ahead of a nestbox installation day in July.
Parklands Albury Wodonga ranger Shane Vanderwerf, also part of the team working on the project, said even more promising was Monday’s sighting was of a family of gliders.
“I was out at Drapers (Reserve) recently and found five families in the area with offspring – positive things are happening,” he said.
The monitoring and installation is part of a project partly funded by the Victorian Government’s Threatened Species Initiative.
Wodonga Urban Landcare Network facilitator Anne Stelling said residents could get involved in mapping the nestboxes, to create a publicly available database on the Atlas of Living Australia.
“People can contact Parklands and organise to borrow the monitoring equipment,” she said.
“It’s citizen science.”