Port Moresby ringing report 1986-87

Abstract

After an absence of about ten years, bird-ringing, or banding, was re-established in the Port Moresby area in October 1986. Permits are required from both the PNG Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) and the Australian National Parks and Wildlife
Service (ANPWS). The ANPWS administer the Australian Bird and Bat Banding Schemes (ABBBS) and it is their rings we use. As far as we know there has been no bird-ringing in the Port Moresby area since 1977, when the late Harry Bell was working at Brown River (Bell 1982), close to one of the sites we now use. Indeed there have been few licensed bird ringers working in PNG in recent years, other than professional ornithologists who have been active near Tari, Southern Highlands Province, and Wau, Morobe Province. A summary of our ringing activities in the Port Moresby area between October 1986 and December 1987 is presented.