Gouldian Finch Recovery Project
What do we know so far!
During the past two years our research has focused upon gaining a better understanding of wet season ecology.
Gouldian finches occupy two different regions of the landscape on an annual cycle. In the dry season and part of the late wet season, between February and October they live within wooded hills that contain Eucalyptus trees used for nesting.
During this period they feed upon native sorghum and drink at small rocky waterholes that remain in the hills until the next wet. In the wet season gouldians move from the hills into lowland drainages to feed upon perennial grasses that begin to seed in mid December.
These grasses include soft spinifex, cockatoo grass and golden beard grass. This is a period of abundant fresh seed that arrives after the dry season reserves of sorghum have disappeared.
