Fieldwork
As well as Werribee, a site which has become relatively less important over the years, the principal regular fieldwork areas of the VWSG include Swan Bay, Western Port, Anderson Inlet and Corner Inlet. Annual visits are made to Mud Islands in Port Phillip, south-eastern South Australia and King Island, Tasmania, as well as occasionally elsewhere. VWSG equipment and members usually form the core of the almost annual expeditions of the AWSG to north-west Western Australia.
The average number of cannon-netting catches made by the VWSG is over 40 a year, with an average annual total of over 7000 waders processed. Principal species caught are Red-necked Stint, Curlew Sandpiper, Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, Red Knot, Sanderling, Double-banded Plover, Bar-tailed Godwit, Ruddy Turnstone, Pied Oystercatcher and Sooty Oystercatcher. The main tern species studied are Crested and Caspian Terns, with other species studied opportunistically.
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