East Gippsland are being reminded that short-tailed shearwaters are about to begin arriving along the state\u2019s coastline as they complete one of the world\u2019s longest avian migrations from the Northern Hemisphere.<\/p>\n
Shearwaters travel more than 15,000 kilometres to Australia each year to <\/p>\n
breed during spring and summer. Due to the extreme distance, some exhausted birds do not survive the journey and may be found washed up on Victorian beaches.<\/p>\n
The Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action (DEECA) is <\/p>\n
urging community members who spot sick or dead shearwaters to leave the birds in place and report their findings via the Emergency Animal Disease Hotline or DEECA\u2019s online reporting portal.<\/p>\n
With H5 bird flu present in wild bird populations, state response activities remain focused on surveillance, public safety, and protecting high-risk species as regional waterbirds enter their spring breeding season.<\/p>\n
DEECA is maintaining on-ground and aerial surveillance across Victoria, working alongside experts to monitor at-risk coastal and wetland habitats.<\/p>\n
Director of wildlife and landscape protection, Eve Graham, reassured the public that finding exhausted or deceased shearwaters along the shoreline is expected during migration season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"East Gippsland are being reminded that short-tailed shearwaters are about to begin arriving along the state\u2019s coastline as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":922581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[64,63,137],"class_list":["post-922580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/922581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}