Arborists are manually planting mistletoe seeds in the treetops of burnt NSW woodlands in a bid to provide crucial food, shelter and nest sites for the critically-endangered regent honeyeater.
abc.net.au/news/bird-australia-aboriginal-land-council-mistletoe-restoration-nsw/101737812Mistletoe is often associated with Christmas, yet native mistletoe is something of an unsung hero when it comes to woodland birds.
"It's really exciting work. As far as we know this is a world first," BA NSW Woodland Bird program manager Mick Roderick said. "Then you need to squeeze the ripe fruit out, and it has this sticky coating over the seed, and you basically wipe it onto the underside of a branch and that's mimicking what a mistletoe bird would do naturally.Workers in Melbourne stick mistletoe seeds on the underside of tree branches.About 2,000 mistletoe seeds had been planted since the summer of 2020-21 and early monitoring was showing signs of success.
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