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Life History | cassowaryrecoveryteam
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Coordinating conservation of Australia's Southern Cassowaries. Skip to primary content. Minutes of Meetings (members only). Cassowaries as Cultural Icons. Where to see Cassowaries in Australia. Education and Information Resources. Cassowaries on social media. Cassowaries in the news. Usually solitary animals, cassowaries live in a home range that fluctuates depending on season and availability of food. The size of observed home ranges varies, generally between 0.52km to 2.35km . Eggs are incubated for ab...
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Threats: People | cassowaryrecoveryteam
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Coordinating conservation of Australia's Southern Cassowaries. Skip to primary content. Minutes of Meetings (members only). Cassowaries as Cultural Icons. Where to see Cassowaries in Australia. Education and Information Resources. Cassowaries on social media. Cassowaries in the news. The major threats to cassowaries are from the loss, fragmentation and modification of habitat, vehicle strikes, human interactions, dog attacks, pigs. Disease, and catastrophic natural events. Along some regional roads where...
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Identification | cassowaryrecoveryteam
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Coordinating conservation of Australia's Southern Cassowaries. Skip to primary content. Minutes of Meetings (members only). Cassowaries as Cultural Icons. Where to see Cassowaries in Australia. Education and Information Resources. Cassowaries on social media. Cassowaries in the news. To help you identify individual cassowaries. It’s tricky to accurately estimate the age of a cassowary in the wild, but it is relatively easy to identify the life stage. Click on the photos to enlarge them. Three chicks rele...
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Threats: Introduced Animals | cassowaryrecoveryteam
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Coordinating conservation of Australia's Southern Cassowaries. Skip to primary content. Minutes of Meetings (members only). Cassowaries as Cultural Icons. Where to see Cassowaries in Australia. Education and Information Resources. Cassowaries on social media. Cassowaries in the news. Abiding by council regulations. Replacing fences as quickly as possible after cyclones. Reporting unregistered, unrestrained, or nuisance dogs to the local council. Pigs (an introduced pest in Australia) cause disturbance to...
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Diet and Ecology | cassowaryrecoveryteam
https://cassowaryrecoveryteam.org/the-southern-cassowary/diet
Coordinating conservation of Australia's Southern Cassowaries. Skip to primary content. Minutes of Meetings (members only). Cassowaries as Cultural Icons. Where to see Cassowaries in Australia. Education and Information Resources. Cassowaries on social media. Cassowaries in the news. Cassowaries have been recorded as eating over 238 species of plants, and they play an important role in maintaining the diversity of rainforest trees. Cassowaries are one of only a few species that can disperse large rai...
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Description | cassowaryrecoveryteam
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Coordinating conservation of Australia's Southern Cassowaries. Skip to primary content. Minutes of Meetings (members only). Cassowaries as Cultural Icons. Where to see Cassowaries in Australia. Education and Information Resources. Cassowaries on social media. Cassowaries in the news. Australian or Double-wattled Cassowary (Marchant and Higgins 1990). The Southern Cassowary (hereafter the cassowary ) is one of only three species of the. Family, which also includes the Dwarf Cassowary. Newly hatched chicks...
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Cassowary Summit Communiqué | cassowaryrecoveryteam
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Coordinating conservation of Australia's Southern Cassowaries. Skip to primary content. Minutes of Meetings (members only). Cassowaries as Cultural Icons. Where to see Cassowaries in Australia. Education and Information Resources. Cassowaries on social media. Cassowaries in the news. Following the Cassowary Summit. Although the purpose of the meeting was focused on this question, additional discussion on the day included lessons learnt from the Cassowary Summit. Design and implement a monitoring program ...
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Range and Habitat | cassowaryrecoveryteam
https://cassowaryrecoveryteam.org/the-southern-cassowary/range
Coordinating conservation of Australia's Southern Cassowaries. Skip to primary content. Minutes of Meetings (members only). Cassowaries as Cultural Icons. Where to see Cassowaries in Australia. Education and Information Resources. Cassowaries on social media. Cassowaries in the news. In the Wet Tropics:. The Southern Cassowary occurs in two areas:. Northern Cape York Peninsula, centred on Shelburne Bay. The distribution of the species is constrained by the availability of habitat which can provide a year...
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Cassowaries as Cultural Icons | cassowaryrecoveryteam
https://cassowaryrecoveryteam.org/the-southern-cassowary/culture
Coordinating conservation of Australia's Southern Cassowaries. Skip to primary content. Minutes of Meetings (members only). Cassowaries as Cultural Icons. Where to see Cassowaries in Australia. Education and Information Resources. Cassowaries on social media. Cassowaries in the news. Cassowaries as Cultural Icons. Cassowary (c) Leonard Andy. Cassowary images are found on rock art in the Wet Tropics, and artists continue to paint pictures of the birds in artwork and for artefacts to sell to tourists.
