Croydon Conservation Society

Your Community link to Local Conservation

• Welcome
  • Response to Croydon Major Activity Centre draft
  • Article about why trees in Australia are dying
  • CCS our charter
  • 1964 to 2014 Golden Jubilee CCS
  • Join or contact us
  • Maroondah’s conservation history
  • our CV’s
• Local Town Planning
  • Greening greyfields
  • The Development Game
  • What will the new Croydon Station look like?
  • Croydon Central re-development
  • 30,000 new Maroondah-ites by 2040
  • I want to object
  • Nature revives human brains
  • Neighbourhood Character
  • VPO’s, SLO’s, Habitat corridors
  • Tree Removal & Habitat corridors
  • Check on amendment progress
• Trees
  • Illegal tree removal
  • Book our tree..free
  • Messmate dieback / maintain a canopy across Maroondah
  • Good news for Dire circumstaances
  • Downloadable Letter ..What trees do
  • Developers VS trees
  • Tree Value
  • CCS mapping trees of significance
• Environment
  • Tarralla wetlands
  • What is an acidified Ocean ?
  • Battery recycling…at all Aldi stores
  • Litter ? bottles & cans. EPA
  • Local Air Quality monitor
  • Pacific ocean garbage island
  • Polluted local creek?
  • Global Warming
  • Old Growth Forests- at risk?
  • Fracking…explained
• Flora/ Fauna
  • can you teach Australian wildlife NOT to eat cane toads and die?
  • 24 Hr Wildlife help
  • Frog census
  • Hello Possums
  • Maroondah’s Birds
  • Ducks & botox
  • Want Frogs?
  • Responsible kittys & puppies
  • Indigenous plants for this region
  • Indigenous Plants CD
  • Threatening Weeds
  • Mistletoe
• Youth depot
  • Einsteins observations
  • Possum boxes
  • Critters of Maroondah mug shots
  • Early primary – we live here too
  • Ringwood Lake
  • Conservation Hero
  • School Trees poster
  • The story of stuff – video
  • World wildlife rangers
• Public Transport
  • Freeways and the Environment
  • Link to public transport users group
• Living Healthy
  • is your backyard fit for vegies?
  • The Supreme court GM case
  • GM Salmon?
  • Eating healthy
  • Not treated pine? the alternative…
  • Treated pine
    • discontinued use of CCA in & around homes
    • Playgrounds & treated pine
    • CCS world first in analysis of CCA
  • Has your recreational park been sprayed ?
  • Zero/ Roundup weedicide
• VOLUNTEER
  • Other local conservation/ environment groups
  • Action Groups
  • Report abandoned waste. broken street trees
  • Become a Solar Citizen
  • Reserves – join in planting

Maroondah’s Birds

Maroondah has prolific bird life. We have the trees and clean environment that makes for excellent habitat. Many people think a dead tree should be removed, but if it is structurally sound, the larger limbs and trunk provide habitat for birds, small marsupials and insects.

Dense prickly bushes are habitat for tiny birds like Finches, Wrens and Eastern spine bills (tiny nectar eaters) with a high pitched note and a sharp curved long beak.

The most common birds of Maroondah can be heard (sound files) on the following site Back yard birds  More information regarding bird life including hidden camera video of a Powerful Owl nesting with chicks, can be found on the following site

an incomplete list is…

Powerful Owls

Nightjars..Tawny frogmouth

Goshawks

Kookaburras

Butcher birds

Grey Currawongs over winter

Black Currawongs over winter

Crows/Ravens

Magpies

Mudlarks

Indian Mynahs

Noisy Mynahs

Crimson Rosella

Eastern Rosella

Galahs

Rainbow Lorakeets

Sulphur crested Cockatoos

Yellow  tailed Black Cockatoos

Corella – near Croydon Library in particular

Gang Gangs occasionally

Masked Plovers – on open grassland usually a football field or such

Wood Ducks

Wattle birds

Black birds

Pardalotes

Silver eyes – tiny birds

Eastern Spine-bills

Thornbills

Easter Whip bird

Blue wrens

Willy wagtails

Bell birds

Grey Fantails

Rufus fantails

• About the Croydon Conservation Society

  Croydon Conservation Society is a non profit community volunteer group, who since 1964 have been actively “conserving” the best of our local environment for us all to share, as well as planting native species in many locations to keep us and our local native inhabitants alive and flourishing!
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