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Beloved Birds Return to Islands for First Time in 40 Years After Damming Damage Reversed
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<blockquote data-quote="Michie" data-source="post: 77655312" data-attributes="member: 628"><p>What’s secretive, pretends to be a stick, and is sometimes confused with a mythical creature?</p><p></p><p>The figure in focus of this question is a beloved bird that’s returning in numbers to Tasmania for the first time in 40 years.</p><p></p><p>The Australasian bittern disappeared from Tasmania’s northern reaches for decades following a hydropower project in 1964 that disrupted a unique local wetland ecosystem called the Lagoon of Islands.</p><p></p><p>Raising the water level, flooding the islands, and eliminating the prime habitat of the bird, its return is a watershed moment in the area’s recovery following the elimination of the dams in 2012.</p><p></p><p>Wielding an “eerie deep hoot” that’s supposed to be similar to a mythical creature called a Bunyip, a man-eating swamp creature, the few Aborigines who will try and describe it say it looks like a seal or swimming dog, while others describe it as having a long neck and small head. Both forms are accused of preying on humans.</p><p></p><p>Continued below.</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/beloved-birds-return-to-islands-for-first-time-in-40-years-after-damming-damage-reversed/[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Michie, post: 77655312, member: 628"] What’s secretive, pretends to be a stick, and is sometimes confused with a mythical creature? The figure in focus of this question is a beloved bird that’s returning in numbers to Tasmania for the first time in 40 years. The Australasian bittern disappeared from Tasmania’s northern reaches for decades following a hydropower project in 1964 that disrupted a unique local wetland ecosystem called the Lagoon of Islands. Raising the water level, flooding the islands, and eliminating the prime habitat of the bird, its return is a watershed moment in the area’s recovery following the elimination of the dams in 2012. Wielding an “eerie deep hoot” that’s supposed to be similar to a mythical creature called a Bunyip, a man-eating swamp creature, the few Aborigines who will try and describe it say it looks like a seal or swimming dog, while others describe it as having a long neck and small head. Both forms are accused of preying on humans. Continued below. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/beloved-birds-return-to-islands-for-first-time-in-40-years-after-damming-damage-reversed/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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