Volunteer Registration Form 2016 Great Cocky Count
Thank you for your interest in the 2016 Great Cocky Count! The 2016 Great Cocky Count will take place on Sunday 3 April at sunset across southwest WA from Geraldton to Esperance, recording numbers of all three black-cockatoo species as they come into their evening roost sites. To register for the survey, please complete ALL information and sign below. • Your home address is necessary so we can allocate you a survey location as close to your home as possible. • Please provide a phone number. Most contact is by email, but we may need to discuss the survey with you. • Please provide your home phone number and personal email address if possible so we don’t lose track of you. Dr / Mr / Mrs / Miss / Ms
First Name
Street Address
State
Post Code
Surname
Town/Suburb
Email
Telephone (home)
Telephone (work)
Telephone (mobile)
Do you know of a Black-Cockatoo roost site near you? Tell us about it below:
Health & Safety Information •
We wish to remind you that you are responsible for your own safety while taking part in the roost counts. In addition, you must complete this volunteer registration process before undertaking roost counts.
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Always let someone know when you are going and when you expect to return.
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Wear sturdy, enclosed shoes or walking boots, protective clothing and be prepared for adverse conditions. Carry sufficient food and water.
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You must be fully capable of physical mobility and moderately physically fit to participate in these surveys.
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If children are present, they must be supervised by an adult.
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Beware traffic and avoid working under tree canopies where you are at risk of falling branches or pine cones.
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Survey in groups of at least two people to maximise safety and improve the reliability of the survey results.
I HAVE READ AND ACKNOWLEDGE THE ABOVE HEALTH AND SAFETY INFORMATION.
SIGNATURE: (if electronic submission, just type your name)
Last Updated: 19 January 2016 by Tegan Douglas
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Volunteer Registration Form 2016 Great Cocky Count
OPTIONAL Are you willing to travel a bit further to do the count? The Great Cocky Count has been a great success over previous years and we continue to see an increase in volunteer participation. However, most of our volunteers are from the Perth metropolitan area, which means we are collecting excellent data for urban areas, but not so much for peri-urban and rural areas. It is crucially important to understand the numbers of cockatoos across their range, and as such, we’re asking volunteers to let us know if you’re willing to travel a bit further away to survey a site where we are lacking data. Please fill out the following information if you are willing for us to assign you a survey site a little further away. Do you consider your current location to be Rural or Urban?
Rural
Urban
Would you consider counting at a Peri-Urban or Rural location?
Yes
No
If so, how far are you willing to travel from your location?
>20km
> 50km
>70km
>100km
Additional Comments?
A member of the BirdLife team will be in touch prior to the Great Cocky Count to advise you of your allocated roost site.
Report a Roost Site! Help us to identify more roost sites for both white-tailed and red-tailed black-cockatoos! Roosts are places where black-cockatoos rest at night. Important information on the location of critical roosting habitat is collected through the GCC, and is increasing with every GCC completed. If you know about a night-time roost site, or you think you have a black-cockatoo roost site near you, please tell us about it at
[email protected] or (08) 9287 2251. Please send completed forms via email or post to:
[email protected] or Great Cocky Count Coordinator BirdLife Australia Peregrine House, 167 Perry Lakes Drive, Floreat, WA 6014
Last Updated: 19 January 2016 by Tegan Douglas
