#mallee — Public Fediverse posts
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#Severeweather warning in place as more wild #weather lashes #Victoria.
#Mildura has recorded its #wettestMarch day ever, with 65.8 millimetres of rainfall as of 9am Sunday morning.
A severe weather warning for locally intense rainfall is in place in #Mallee, #NorthernCountry, #Wimmera and parts of #Central, #SouthWestNorthCentral and #NorthEastVictoria.
Rain will increase overnight and Monday morning. #auspol
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I just spent three nights camping at #BirdLife Australia's #Gluepot Reserve in the #mallee of #SouthAustralia.
Tenperatures were reaching 37/38 C, and it's very dry there. The reserve has a small dam, but no other open water. The #MurrayRiver is about 40 km to the south.
But the #insects that appeared at night were primarily #freshwater species - lots of #CaddisFlies (#Trichoptera), #Chironomidae and #BackSwimmers (#Notonectidae).
This video shows the insects attracted to a #LepiLED UV light. If these mostly originated down at the river, the insect #biomass streaming up across this region (wind-blown?) is absolutely staggering.
There were also LOTS of #microbats everywhere, and the stars were incredible.
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Have you ever seen a mallee emu-wren (Stipiturus mallee)? This sweet little bird is a Triodia spinifex specialist, using the spiky, tussock-forming grass as shelter from predators and a safe site to nest and forage!
The mallee emu-wren was once found across mallee shrublands and heathlands, east and west of the SA–Victoria border, but land-clearing, bushfires and droughts have removed its habitat from much of its former range.
Learn more about this beautiful little bird and the efforts to protect it… https://ausgeo.co/malleeemuwren
📷 Nick Bradsworth
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