Old mine basis for Blackwood wetland haven

Updated September 25 2013 - 12:15pm, first published September 24 2013 - 12:00am
Little Bittern: Critically endangered bitterns have been nicknamed the bunyip bird due to their noisy call at night time, a sound which some imagine only the mythical bunyip could make. There are fewer than 800 Australasian bitterns across the nation.
Little Bittern: Critically endangered bitterns have been nicknamed the bunyip bird due to their noisy call at night time, a sound which some imagine only the mythical bunyip could make. There are fewer than 800 Australasian bitterns across the nation.
Target: Another endangered bird, the black bittern, is on the target list.
Target: Another endangered bird, the black bittern, is on the target list.
On the decline: Australiasian bittern numbers are down.
On the decline: Australiasian bittern numbers are down.

THE Blackwood Basin Group (BBG) has been successful in attaining a grant to create a wetland haven at Schwenkes Dam, Greenbushes, to attract critically endangered waterbirds to the site.

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