Webinar Follow up and Early Findings

Dear Contributors,

Again, thank you to everyone who has made one or more observations, they are making a difference.

This week I gave a webinar on Thursday night about this project. We had 101 logins to the webinar which was wonderful and have had some new people join our project since then - Welcome.

In preparing for the webinar I went over the data that has been generated to date.

Between your observations and observations of others in iNaturalist through the past few years we have more than 500 observations of feeding lorikeets or plants on which lorikeets have fed. We have identified 61 species of plants that on which they feed. Twenty of these have some level of toxicity and 10 species potentially produce a toxin that might cause LPS like signs. Of these ten species, four bloom or fruit only during that time or the year when LPS occurs. So the project is working, we are beginning to identify some plants that might be the cause of LPS.

However, we are not there yet and your observations between now and the end of February will be critical to this project, so keep up the good work.

All the best,

David, Lauren and Maya.

Publicado el sábado, 09 de octubre de 2021 a las 12:05 AM por david4262 david4262

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Dear David, Maya and Lauren,
Thanks for the very informative webinar on Thursday. One of the slides showed a map with the hotspots for LPS. Would you be able to tell us which Brisbane suburbs were represented?
Many thanks
Sue

Anotado por suwoods hace mas de 2 años

Is there a recording of the webinar?
Regards
Erica

Anotado por ericacampbell hace mas de 2 años

Thanks for your comment @ericacampbell Sorry for the very late response, but here is a Youtube link to the webinar recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=dOPYfz7aHI8

Anotado por lozb97 hace cerca de 2 años

Thanks for your comment @suwoods Sorry for the very late response, but we have just answered your question in our Journal post made today on the 27th of January. Glad you enjoyed the webinar, and thank-you for your support of the project.

Anotado por lozb97 hace cerca de 2 años

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