We are absolutely thrilled to introduce Clive and Inhancer, a pair caught last week in the Macquarie Marshes (4/11/2025) and fitted with GPS 4G transmitters from Global Messenger. We are immensely grateful to the local landholders – Leanne, Garry and Jet Hall – who were central in making it happen. Clive comes to us thanks to the Victorian Wader Study Group as a tribute to the late Clive Minton, widely recognised as the ‘grandfather’ of shorebird research in Australia. Inhancer is thanks to Birdlife Australia as a tribute to Ian Hance, who made a huge contribution as a volunteer, spearheading a lot of the early collation and databasing of APS records. And as always, thank you to everyone else that made all of this possible, especially with your donations to the crowdfunding. These are our eighth and ninth birds to be tracked, and the sixth and seventh from this property in the Macquarie Marshes. It continues to prove it’s about as reliable and significant as an Australian Painted-snipe site gets. For more information about Clive, click here , and for Inhancer, click here.
Clive, a tribute to the ‘grandfather’ of shorebird research in Australia, Clive Minton, from the Victorian Wader Study Group.
Matt Herring, Inka Veltheim and Jet Hall, thrilled to bits after catching two birds.
Open Black Box wetland, part of the home of Clive and Inhancer in the Macquarie Marshes.
Brolga fly-by over flooded barley stubble on the same Macquarie Marshes property, where at least 6-10 painted-snipe were located this spring.
Clive and Inhancer have been inseparable.
The Hall family and their horses were once again central in locating and catching the birds.
Inhancer, a tribute from Birdlife Australia to volunteer extraordinaire and Australian Painted-snipe enthusiast, Ian Hance.
The plumage of Clive: outstanding beauty.
