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Nov 19, 2023

Blue Is The Colour Of Desire... Say Hi To the Bowerbird

For all the enchantment the color blue has cast upon humanity, no animal has fallen under its spell more hopelessly than the bowerbird,...

May 16, 2023

Spiders along the Mitta: The Webs They Weave...

https://earthsky.org/earth/how-does-a-spider-spin-a-web-between-two-trees/ Maybe you’ve seen spider webs strung high in the branches...

Mar 5, 2023

Slippery as an ...

The Short Finned Eel is common in our waterways. They’re long, slippery fish that live in our creeks and rivers and they hunt yabbies,...

Mar 8, 2022

Bet you can find one of these little guys in the tree leaves at the Joker if you look!

The 007 of Bugs... From being born in eggs that resemble seeds, to spending its nymph stage disguised as an ant, to mimicking a leaf...

Jul 16, 2021

Ever see a Goanna on the Snowy or Mitta rivers?

Some pretty cool digs... (puns intended)... https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/06/monitor-lizards-australia-dig-incredible-...

Jun 20, 2021

Eastern Spinebill; A Pretty Bird Along The Mitta & It's Tribs, Feeding On Woolly Grevillea In Winter

https://ebird.org/species/easspi1?siteLanguage=en_AU https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/0306b569-9ec5-4d44-8644-33073a06a957 A...

May 26, 2021

Grey Shrike-Thrush... another cool bird in the High Country along the Mitta

Some interesting facts on finding and learning about the Grey Shrike-Thrush in the High Country. Along with stuff you can do with...

Mar 8, 2021

The Hairy Canary (In The Coal Mine): Bogong Moths In The Victorian Alpine Country

Great Bush Tucker, Great reason to gather the tribes each year along the Mighty Mitta for thousands of years. Not to mention a Mountain...

Jan 26, 2021

More Science sites

Earth science or geoscience includes all fields of natural science related to planet Earth. This is a branch of science dealing with the...

Jan 26, 2021

Another Great "Citizen Science" site

Kids, everyone, appreciates getting deep knowledge and understanding of a natural area... Don't just wave your arms and talk about how...

Jan 26, 2021

Citizen Science in Australia

Biodiversity, Birdcounts, Bio-Blitzes and stuff that doesn't start with a "B"... Keen on citizen science?... lots of great connections...

Jan 26, 2021

Vegetation in the High Country, technical paper for the scientifically minded....

If you're a researcher or academic, or just like this kind of scientific stuff, click here...

Dec 14, 2020

Australian Alps Website

This link is to the Australian Alps Website and its educational resources - theaustralianalps.wordpress.com/the-alps-partnership/education/

Contact Friends Of The Mitta

Friends Of The Mitta
c/o Jeffe Aronson
124 Callaghans Rd
Anglers Rest, Victoria 3898

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