English subtitles for clip: File:Tasmania's swift parrot set to follow the dodo.webm

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Hi, my name's Henry Cook. This last season
I worked with ANU on the Swift Parrot project

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in Tasmania. These little birds had a terrible
season with few chicks surviving. On seeing

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this, I and the rest of the team hatched a
plan to raise some money and save these birds.

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What are we doing today?

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Dejan: Today we're
going to be banding the first Swift Parrots

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of the 2014 season, that's assuming they've
survived, this area we know has Sugar Gliders.

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It's entirely possible that they've been eaten.

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Henry: Feather down.

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Dejan: Swift Parrot.

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Henry: This is Doctor Dejan Stojanovic. Post
Doctoral Fellow at ANU. He's part of a team

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that has been researching swift parrots for
the past seven years. Part of his research

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involves monitoring of nest success using
motion detecting cameras.

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Dejan: The nestlings are dead.

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Henry: What from?

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Dejan: Well, Camera
trap will tell us in a second.

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Probably be Sugar Gliders.

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Henry: Sugar Gliders were introduced
in Tasmania sometime around the mid 19th century.

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Dejan: When Swift Parrots nest in an area
where there is a low risk of Glider prodation,

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like Bruny or Maria Island, we get to see
the nest succeed.

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Henry: From incubation

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to hatching, as they start to grow their feathers,
and almost fledging.

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Dejan: Unfortunately,

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the location of flowering Blue Gum and Black
Gum dictates where the Swift Parrot breeds.

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So, they can't nest on these islands every
year.

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Henry: Which brings us to the crowd

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funding. We want to do something about the
nest failures. We know that Sugar Glider prodation

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is directly linked to deforestation. We can't
just switch off broad scale logging in Tasmanian

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old growth forest.

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Dejan: Nor can we manage
the wild fires, which burn out hollows every season.

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Henry: We want to use nest boxes as
surrogate nest hollows or research tools for

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the Swift Parrot and two other critically
endangered birds: the Forty-Spotted Pardalote

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and the Orange-Bellied Parrot.

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For
Forty-Spotted Pardalotes, we want to increase

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the number of nest sites in some severely
hollow limited locations.

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Dejan: For the Orange-Bellied

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Parrot, we'd like to assess the risk of Glider
predation to known and historical breeding

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locations throughout Tasmania.

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Henry: Finally, the Swift Parrots, we'd like to add nesting sites

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to some regularly used, but hollow free feeding
locations in an attempt to establish new breeding

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sites. We'd also like to trial some designs
we have for Glider proof nest boxes.

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Dejan: We have the man power and the equipment to make this happen. All that is required are a lot

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of nest boxes.

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Henry: These are Australia's rarest
birds and they all share a common threat.

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With your help, we can make a difference ensuring
the continued survival

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of these magnificent species.