- A Guide to Common Species and Habitat Management
| The birds that inhabit rural landscapes often do so in harmony with productive farming and grazing enterprises. However, some species are sensitive to certain land management practices and their abundance can wax and wane as land use changes over years and decades. As such, the variety and abundance of birds in rural landscapes can tell us a lot about the health of remnant bush and the sustainability of agricultural practices.
In other words, birds are useful ecological indicators for land managers who want to monitor the effects of their land use practices on nature at the farm, catchment or landscape scale.
By developing knowledge of the birds that inhabit your landscape, and observing what birds live where, and when they come and go, you will build an understanding of the habitat requirements of those birds. Such understanding will be invaluable in helping you to plan and manage land use change over coming years. Perhaps of even greater significance is the mere pleasure you will derive from being able to recognise and name more of the birds you see every day.
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These web pages are a web version of the Birds on Cotton Farms - a guide to common species and habitat management by Greg Ford and Nicci Thompson
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