Healthy Landscapes Guide
Healthy Landscapes: A practical guide to caring for land in Mount Alexander region
Please find the additional resources below that provide further information on the topics mentioned in the Healthy Landscapes Guide. We endeavour to keep the links updated to be our best ability, but please report any broken links to us via: info@connectingcountry.org.au
Introduction
Dja Dja Wurrung Dhelkunya Dja – Dja Dja Wurrung Country Plan 2014-2034 and resources: www.djadjawurrung.com.au
Understand your land
Rural property history: guides.slv.vic.gov.au
Loddon Campaspe Climate Projections 2019: click here
Victorian Resources Online – A study of the land in the Campaspe Valley catchment : click here
Victorian Resources Online – Land systems of the Campaspe River map legend
Victorian Resources Online – Land Inventory of the Loddon River catchment: Click here
Restore the landscape
Make a plan
Site management plan template: Click here
Protect remnant vegetation
The importance of ground cover: Click here
Protecting Vegetation: Click here
Revegetate your land
Climate future plots: Click here
Revegetation for climate change adaptation: Click here
Shelterbelts: Click here
Shelterbelt design file: Click here
Greening Australia native vegetation guide for Victoria: Click here
Control Weeds
Noxious weed list for Victoria (note: Mount Alexander Shire is within North Central catchment): Click here
List of some common and emerging weeds of Mount Alexander region: Click here
Aboriginal Cultural Heritage: Click here
Climate predictions for weed distribution: weedfutures.net
Control Rabbits
Control of pest animals: pestsmart.org.au
Restricted and priority pest animal species: agriculture.vic.gov.au
Spotlighting and monitoring methods, including apps and resources: feralscan.org.au
Protecting cultural heritage: Click here
Dial before you dig: 1100.com.au
Restricted and priority species: agriculture.vic.gov.au
How to set up a bait station: connectingcountry.org.au/video
‘A Ute Guide to Rabbit Control’ second edition 2013. Original edition by Creightons Creek Landcare Pest Plant and Animal Committee.
Rabbit control methods: Victorian Rabbit Action Network: vran.com.au
Integrated rabbit control methods: Rabbit control
To record and view rabbit activity in your local area: Rabbit Scan
Effective rabbit control program video: VRAN
Rabbit-proof fencing diagram: Click here
Help hollow-using wildlife
Macak, P. and Platt, S (2018) ‘Use of nest boxes – general guide’ Fact sheet. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, East Melbourne
Macak, P. (2018) ‘Use of nest boxes – general guide’, Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning
McMullan, B (2012) ‘Yellow Box Woodland Project nest box program: Nest box monitoring field guide. Fact sheet. Connecting Country, Castlemaine.
Natural tree hollows guide: Click here
Beyer, Georgia L, & Goldingay, Ross L. (2006). The value of nest boxes in the research and management of Australian hollow-using arboreal marsupials. Wildlife Research 33(3), 161–174.
Building nest boxes after fire: South Australian Government: Click here
Soderquist, T. R., Traill, B. J., Faris, F., and Beasley, K. (1996). Using nest boxes to survey for the brush-tailed phascogale Phascogale tapoatafa. Victorian Naturalist 113, 256–261.
Menkhorst P.W. (1984). Use of Nest Boxes by Forest Vertebrates in Gippsland: Acceptance, Preference and Demand. Wildlife Research 11, 255-264.
Use of nestboxes in Victoria: Victorian Government: ari.vic.gov.au
Land for Wildlife (Victoria) 1999, Victorian Land for Wildlife Note No.6, ‘Wildlife needs natural tree hollows’, Land for Wildlife (Victoria) Note No 6
WMB. 1990, Victorian Land for Wildlife Note No.6, Department of Natural resources and Environment, Melbourne.
Goldingay, R.L., Rueegger, N.N., Grimson, M.J., Taylor, B.D. (2015) Specific nest box designs can improve habitat restoration for cavity-dependent arboreal mammals. Restoration Ecology 23: 482–490
Table 1. Animals that use tree or log hollows in the Mount Alexander region
| Common name | Scientific name |
| Mammals | |
| Short-beaked Echidna | Tachyglossus aculeatus |
| Yellow-footed Antechinus | Antechinus flaivpes |
| Brush-tailed Phascogale | Phascogale tapoatafa |
| Common Brushtail Possum | Trichosurus vulpecula |
| Feathertail Glider | Acrobates pygmaeus |
| Sugar Glider (Krefft’s Glider) | Petaurus breviceps |
| Eastern Freetail bat | Mormopterus sp (undescribed) |
| Southern Freetail bat | Mormopterus sp (undescribed) |
| White-striped Free-tailed Bat | Tadarida australis |
| Gould’s Wattled Bat | Chalinolobus gouldii |
| Chocolate Wattled Bat | Chalinolobus morio |
| Lesser Long-eared Bat | Nyctophilus geoffroyi |
| Gould’s Long-eared Bat | Nyctophilus goudli |
| Inland broad nosed bat | Scotorepens balstoni |
| Large Forest Bat | Vespadelus darlingtoni |
| Southern Forest Bat | Vespadelus regulus |
| Little Forest Bat | Vespadelus vulturnus |
| Birds | |
| Australian Shelduck | Tadorna tadornoides |
| Australian Wood Duck | Chenonetta jubata |
| Pacific Black Duck | Anas superciliosa |
| Australian Owlet-nightjar | Aegotheles cristatus |
| Nankeen Kestrel | Falco cenchroides |
| Peregrine Falcon | Falco peregrinus |
| Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo | Calyptorhynchus funereus |
| Gang-gang Cockatoo | Callocephalon fimbriatum |
| Galah | Eolophus roseicapillus |
| Long-billed Corella | Cacatua tenuirostris |
| Little Corella | Cacatua sanguinea |
| Sulphur-crested Cockatoo | Cacatua galerita |
| Cockatiel | Nymphicus hollandicus |
| Rainbow Lorikeet | Trichoglossus haematodus |
| Musk Lorikeet | Glossopsitta concinna |
| Little Lorikeet | Glossopsitta pusilla |
| Purple-crowned Lorikeet | Glossopsitta porphyrocephala |
| Crimson Rosella | Platycercus elegans |
| Eastern Rosella | Platycercus eximius |
| Red-rumped Parrot | Psephotus haematonotus |
| Budgerigar | Melopsittacus undulatus |
| Blue-winged Parrot | Neophema chrysostoma |
| Powerful Owl | Ninox strenua |
| Barking Owl | Ninox connivens |
| Southern Boobook | Ninox novaeseelandiae |
| Eastern Barn Owl | Tyto javanica |
| Laughing Kookaburra | Dacelo novaeguineae |
| White-throated Treecreeper | Cormobates leucophaea |
| Red-browed Treecreeper | Climacteris erythrops |
| Brown Treecreeper | Climacteris picumnus victoriae |
| Buff-rumped Thornbill | Acanthiza reguloides |
| Southern Whiteface | Aphelocephala leucopsis |
| Spotted Pardalote | Pardalotus punctatus |
| Striated Pardalote | Pardalotus striatus |
| Grey Shrike-thrush | Colluricincla harmonica |
| Flame Robin | Petroica phoenicea |
| Tree Martin | Petrochelidon nigricans |
| Common Starling | Sturnus vulgaris |
| Common Myna | Sturnus tristis |
| Frogs | |
| Spotted Marsh Frog | Limnodynastes tasmaniensis |
| Plains Froglet | Crinia parinsignifera |
| Southern Brown Tree frog | Litoria ewingii |
| Growling Grass Frog | Litoria raniformis |
| Peron’s Tree frog | Litoria peronii |
| Bibron’s Toadlet | Pseudophryne bibronii |
| Reptiles | |
| Marbled Gecko | Christinus marmoratus |
| Thick-tailed Barking Gecko | Underwoodisaurus milii |
| Eastern Three-lined Skink | Acritoscincus duperreyi |
| Black Rock Skink | Egernia saxatilis |
| Garden Skink | Lampropholis guichenoti |
| Eastern Bearded Dragon | Pogona barata |
| Sand Goanna | Varanus gouldii |
| Lace Monitor | Varanus varius |
| Eastern Tiger Snake | Notechis scutatus |
Manage your dam as habitat
Improving biodiversity of farm dams: murraywildlife.com.au/farm-dams
Farm dam enhancement: sustainablefarms.org.au/farmdamenhancement
NSW Government Farm dam handbook: Click here
Managing farm dams: agriculture.vic.gov.au/managing-dams
Why I built a wetland and not a dam: renew.org.au
Care for paddocks
Sustainable Farms: www.sustainablefarms.org.au/
Central Victorian Regenerative Farmers: facebook.com/groups/291403711731532/
Grazing and pasture management: mla.com.au
Regional Sustainable Agriculture Strategy (2015) published by North Central Catchment Management Authority: Click here