Diario del proyecto Biodiversity Blitz 2021 - Yarra Ranges

We are just over one week into our Biodiversity Blitz and it’s been wonderful to see so many people joining in. At the time of writing we have 113 people contributing.

The Yarra Ranges is leading the council challenge with 2200+ observations with Mornington Peninsula trailing us with 1500+. We are falling behind Mornington when it comes to species on the leaderboard which differs slightly to what’s listed on our project due to how species are counted. Mornington has 578 at the time of writing, Yarra Ranges has logged 523 so we still have some work to do!

When it comes to observations here are the leaders.

Top 10 flora
• Prickly Moses
• Common Heath
• Love Creeper
• Wonga Vine
• Tough Rice Flower
• Mountain Greenhood
• Blackwood
• Tall Sundew
• Australian Clematis
• Hop Goodenia

Top 10 fauna
• Australian Painted Lady (butterfly)
• Crimson Rosella
• Pied Currawong
• Magpie
• Genus Chrysso (comb-footed spiders)
• Laughing Kookaburra
• Australian Wood Duck
• Superb Lyrebird
• Garden snail
• Common Eastern Froglet

Of course, the above list is changing day-by-day so it will be interesting to see what is in our top ten next week.

Keep up the great work, you still have plenty of time to add more observations and it looks like we’ll get some nice weather for at least part of the weekend so make sure you have your camera with you when you head out for a walk.

The Yarra Ranges Council Team

We’re now past the half way mark of the September Biodiversity Blitz and the observation count is climbing. Our 170 ‘blitzers’ have logged 6,400+ observations and over 1,000 species. What an effort! With school holidays about to begin we hope to see more observers sign up to the blitz.

It has been a nail-biting week when it comes to the species count on the challenge leaderboard - https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/biodiversity-blitz-2021-melbourne - with Yarra Ranges and Mornington jostling for first position. Typically, less than 10 species separate us from Mornington.

When it comes to Yarra Ranges observations there has been a reordering of the flora in the top 10 compared to last week and some exciting newbies in our fauna list.

Top 10 flora:

1. Love Creeper
2. Prickly Moses
3. Tough Rice Flower
4. Australian Mountain Greenhood
5. Wonga Vine
6. Blackwood
7. Pultenaea gunnii (golden bush-pea)
8. Common Heath
9. Three-corned Garlic
10. Australian Clematis

Top 10 fauna

1. Australian Painted Lady (butterfly)
2. Crimson Rosella
3. Laughing Kookaburra
4. Magpie
5. Grey Fantail
6. Genus Chrysso (comb-footed spiders)
7. Pied Currawong
8. Western Honey Bee
9. Australian Wood Duck
10. Common Wombat

The Yarra Ranges Council Team