Seasonal and Diel Activity of Fresh-Water Turtles in the Murray Valley, Victoria and New South-Wales

1988 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 267 ◽  
Author(s):  
BC Chessman
Keyword(s):  
Locomotor Activity ◽  
Fresh Water ◽  
New South ◽  
Diel Activity ◽  
Diel Pattern ◽  
Diel Cycles ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Baited Traps ◽  
Murray River ◽  
Activity Cycles

Activity cycles of Chelodina expansa, C. longicollis and Emydura macquarii were inferred from captures in baited traps set in the Murray River and Lake Boga. C. expansa and E, macquarii were caught only from October to April, while C. longicollis was taken in all months but June and July. Minimum water temperatures at capture were highest for C. expansa and lowest for C. longicollis. Diel cycles of catch rate were often weak, but tended to be bimodal for all species, with peaks near dawn and in the afternoon or evening. Unlike the Chelodina species, E. macquarii was ofen caught near midnight. In the laboratory (at c.24�C with light:dark 12:12 h), the average diel pattern of locomotor activity was weakly bimodal in C. expansa, strongly bimodal in C. longicollis and unimodal in E. macquarii.

scholarly journals Warriewood

1970 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 66-67
Author(s):  
Virginia Macleod
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Fresh Water ◽  
East Coast ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Southern Boundary ◽  
South Wales

Warriewood is on Sydney's northern beaches, between Mona Vale and North Narrabeen, in the Pittwater local government area.This was once a 'wet' part of the coast. Lagoons and swamps were typical of the northern beaches and east coast of New South Wales. Narrabeen Creek flows through the middle of Warriewood, and Mullet Creek marks its southern boundary. Early nineteenth-century maps mark most of the land between the south-east corner of Pittwater across to Mona Vale Beach and south, including Warriewood Valley, as swamp. The local Guringai Aboriginal people would have found these swamps rich in food supplies – fish, birds, plants and naturally fresh water.

Aboriginal Educators’ Training Program 1981-82

1982 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 42-43
Author(s):  
D. Tournier
Keyword(s):  
Training Program ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Public Speaking ◽  
New South ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Child Psychology ◽  
Teaching Techniques ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Murray River ◽  
Aboriginal History

Every Wednesday we have a training program for Aboriginal educators in Swan Hill, which is situated on the New South Wales and Victorian border near the Murray River. The Aboriginal educators involved in this program are: Jon Kirby, Caroline Steel, Lynette Bugeja and myself. This program is co-ordinated by our resource teacher – Jill Pattenden.In 1981 we covered such subjects as reading and writing skills, communication, teaching techniques, lesson planning, Aboriginal history, child psychology, counselling, lessons in organising, oral history, community and alcohol, public speaking, submission drafting, study of Aboriginal spirituality.All these subjects were studied with the help of people in the community, both Aboriginal and European. These resource people included local elders, field officers, counsellors, psychologists, an alcohol counsellor, teachers, and people with tribal experience.As part of the program we did activity days at local primary schools. These days are called Jemauraji days (which means “today’s dreaming”). They consisted of different activities such as ground drawing, damper making, corroborée, totems and fire making. Everybody in each school was involved in these activities.

Survey of paddock size and stock water supplies in the Western Riverina District of New South Wales.

1978 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 167
Author(s):  
VR Squires
Keyword(s):  
Fresh Water ◽  
Vegetation Type ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Current Level ◽  
Vegetation Types ◽  
Temporary Waters ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Saline Waters ◽  
The Mean

In order to assess the current level of stock watering facilities on pastoral properties within the western Riverina district of New South Wales and to relate this information to paddock size and vegetation type, large of areas of land (785,000 ha) within the region were surveyed. Paddock boundaries and the location of watering points were plotted. Watering points were classified as to type. Three broad vegetation types were represented: chenopod shrublands (Atriplex and Maireana spp.) degraded grasslands (Stipal Danthonia spp.), and mallee woodlands (Eucalyptus socinlis F. Meull., E, oleosa, F. Meull.) Size of paddocks was related to the dominant vegetation type. On the degraded grasslands in the eastern part of the study area the mean paddock size was 746 ha; on the chenopod shrublands it was 780 ha, and in the Malleedominated areas it was 1,553 ha. The number of permanent watering points per paddock varied from one to four. Less than half the paddocks (43%) had fresh water available as well as saline waters from sub-artesian bores. Almost half the paddocks (47%) were so large, or the watering points so positioned, that the sheep would need to walk more than 3 km to reach the most remote parts of the paddock when temporary waters had dried up. Overall 18% of the land in the non- mallee areas was more than 3 km from permanent water. Therefore the majority of the land could be used in all seasons. Generally the central and northern Riverina district is adequately watered. It would be uneconomic to supply permanent water in the mallee woodlands. In some paddocks in the chenopod dominated area extra watering points may be justified.

A description of the anatomy of the Ornithorhynchus paradoxus

1832 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 68-69
Keyword(s):  
Internal Structure ◽  
Fresh Water ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
The Other ◽  
Full Account ◽  
External Appearance ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The One

Two specimens of this curious animal, lately brought from New South Wales, the one male and the other female, and both full grown and perfect, having been submitted to the inspection and close examination of Mr. Home, by Sir Joseph Banks, this gentle­man has availed himself of the favourable opportunity to draw up the full account of all that is hitherto known concerning its habits, of its external appearance, and internal structure now before us. The animal has hitherto been only found in the fresh-water lakes, in the interior parts of the above-mentioned country. It does not swim upon the surface of the water, but comes up occasionally to breathe. It chiefly inhabits the banks of these lakes, and is supposed to feed in the muddy places which surround them; but the particular kind of food on which it subsists is not known.

Diet of the Large-footed Myotis Myotis Mcropus at A Forest Stream Roost in Northern New South Wales

2000 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 121 ◽  
Author(s):  
B Law ◽  
CA Urquhart
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
South Australia ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Forest Stream ◽  
Small Streams ◽  
Murray River ◽  
Myotis Myotis ◽  
Rivers And Lakes ◽  
Fish Remains

RECENT evidence indicates that the large-footed myotis Myotis macropus (previously Myotis adversus) is the sole representative of its genus in Australia (Cooper et al. in press). These are small bats that forage over pools of water in small streams, rivers and lakes, using large feet to trawl for prey along water surfaces (Dwyer 1970; Thompson and Fenton 1982). Little is known about their diet. Fish have been confirmed in the diet of M. macropus at a population that forages over a large lake, near Brisbane (Robson 1984). Unidentified insect material formed the bulk of the species? diet in Robson?s study. A small number of scats were also examined from M. macropus caught on the Murray River in South Australia (Jansen 1987). These contained fish remains and insects, particularly Chironominae (midges) and Culicidae (mosquitoes). We studied the diet of M. macropus at a forest stream to determine the importance of aquatic prey and thus to help guide management strategies for the species.

The effect of diphenyl wraps and case liners on green mould wastage in stored oranges

1965 ◽  
Vol 5 (16) ◽  
pp. 91
Author(s):  
D Leggo ◽  
JA Seberry
Keyword(s):  
Boric Acid ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Central Coast ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Murray River ◽  
Green Mould

Diphenyl wraps and diphenyl liners in combination with sodium a-phenylphenate and borax-boric acid dips were compared for control of green mould in stored oranges. Four experiments were carried out in the Sunraysia area on the Murray River in 1959 and three at Gosford on the central coast of New South Wales in 1960 and 1961. Treatment of the fruit with sodium o-phenylphenate, combined with the application of diphenyl, whether impregnated in fruit wrappers or case liners, effectively reduced green mould in oranges stored at atmospheric temperatures for periods up to nine weeks. There were indications that the location of the diphenyl-impregnated case liners within the container is an important factor in the efficiency of mould control by these treatments.

Food of the Snake-Necked Turtle, Chelodina Longicollis (Shaw) (Testudines: Chelidae) in the Murray Valley, Victoria and New South Wales.

1984 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 573 ◽  
Author(s):  
BC Chessman
Keyword(s):  
Benthic Invertebrates ◽  
New South ◽  
Stomach Contents ◽  
Decapod Crustaceans ◽  
Important Food ◽  
Terrestrial Invertebrates ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Murray River ◽  
Planktonic Crustaceans ◽  
Chelodina Longicollis

The diet of C. longicollis was inferred from analysis ofthe stomach contents of 105 turtles collected from the Murray River and associated water bodies in south-eastem Australia. The most important food items in terms of volume were carrion and decapod crustaceans in the river, camon and littoral-benthic invertebrates in lakes and ponds containing fish, and planktonic crustaceans (mostly Cladocera) in ponds and pools without fish. Terrestrial invertebrates, which had presumably fallen into the water, nektonic insects and whole fish were also eaten. Diet varied relatively little with turtle size and sex, although juveniles ate relatively less carrion and more littoral and benthic invertebrates than adults. Within the constraints of its obligate carnivory, C. longicollis is a catholic and opportunistic feeder.

Diet of the Murray Turtle, Emydura-Macquarii (Gray) (Testudines, Chelidae)

1986 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 65 ◽  
Author(s):  
BC Chessman
Keyword(s):  
Aquatic Macrophytes ◽  
Aquatic Invertebrates ◽  
New South ◽  
Stomach Contents ◽  
Filamentous Algae ◽  
Terrestrial Invertebrates ◽  
Dietary Shift ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Murray River ◽  
Males And Females

Examination of the stomach contents of 122 E. macquarii from the Murray River, Lake Boga and other waters in northern Victoria and southern New South Wales showed that this species is an opportunistic omnivore. In order of decreasing importance the main food types were filamentous algae, vertebrate (mainly fish) carrion, detritus, periphyton (including sponges), mobile aquatic invertebrates, aquatic macrophytes and terrestrial invertebrates. There was a degree of dietary shift with turtle size, small specimens containing more detritus and periphyton and less filamentous algae, macrophytes and carrion than bigger ones. The diets of mature males and females did not differ appreciably. Diel changes in stomach content volumes indicated that E. macquarii feeds mainly during the daytime.

Waterbird Dynamics in the RIchmond VAlley, New SOuth Wales, 1974-77

1983 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 319 ◽  
Author(s):  
DG Gosper ◽  
SV Briggs ◽  
SM Carpenter
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Late Summer ◽  
Seasonal Abundance ◽  
Black Swan ◽  
Abundance Patterns ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Black Duck ◽  
Murray River ◽  
Black Cormorant

'Monthly waterbird counts from February 1974 to June 1977 at six wetlands in the Richmond River valley in northern coastal New South Wales were analysed to investigate relationships between numbers of each species, and season and water variables. Black swan, Pacific black duck, purple swamphen, dusky moorhen, cattle egret, comb-crested jacana and sharp-tailed sandpiper were strongly influenced by season. Grey teal, straw-necked ibis, little black cormorant, Pacific heron and black-winged stilt numbers were related to Murray River discharge, an index of inland wetland availability in New South Wales, northern Victoria and parts of southern Queensland. Numbers of most waterbirds were highest on the coast from late summer to the end of winter. Their seasonal abundance patterns conform with the results of some previous studies but differ somewhat from others.

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