“Marcelina”
Marcelina, meaning Little Warrior. The letters making up the name come from the first and last names of Ricegrowers’ Association staff.
Individual Name: Marcelina
Sponsor: Ricegrowers’ Association of Australia
Sex: Female
Found: In channel on farm near Balranald, NSW
Date Tagged: January 3rd, 2024
Details: The second ever Australian painted-snipe to be tracked. Caught in mist net at 8:30 pm along a channel adjacent to large wetland, surrounded by extensive wetland complex managed for conservation. She flew off strongly and within two days of release has already moved up to 2 km. One of the early insights, like Gloria, is the regular use of dryland roosts, in spear grass and black box, sometimes hundreds of metres from water.
Marcelina touches down in the NT’s Top End
It’s been absolutely riveting to follow Marcelina over the past ten days. She is now 2142 kilometres from her spring and early summer home, with behaviour akin to a north-south/winter-summer…
Marcelina: 1000 km flight to near Birdsville
To our immense delight, Marcelina has provided us with the first documented long distance movement ever recorded for an Australian Painted-snipe. She is currently at Goyder Lagoon in the far…
Introducing Marcelina …
Marcelina, the second ever Australian Painted-snipe to be tracked, all thanks to the generous people and organisations that contributed to our crowd-funded research. Special thanks to the Ricegrowers’ Association of…
