Henry Codd Reserve & bikeway, Parkside

You may have noticed the efforts in the suburbs of Adelaide has had many bikeways, walkways and urban parks to provide habitat in the form of native vegetation, particularly understory shrubs. A great example of this extends off the Henry Codd reserve, Parkside is the Malvern-Parkside and Unley East-West bikeways. These bikeways have recently undergone redevelopment with native vegetation being planted particularly understory plants.

While these walkways make for a pleasant walk or ride, the important question is what is the effect on local Biodiversity? What is the effect of this kind of development on the invertebrate and vertebrate communities?

The efforts made over the weekend tripled the number of observations in the project for the park and doubled the number of the species. The most common species observed was the House Sparrow although a number of other bird species were also observed including the Red Wattlebird, Noisy Miner and Magpie.

The group noticed several nesting boxes that had been occupied by Eastern Rosella's Platycercus eximius and Rainbow Lorikeet Trichoglossus moluccanus. In addition to the birds, several invertebrate species were also observed, although the cool conditions may have had an impact on their movement and hence observation. For a full list of all the observations please have a look at the Henry Codd Reserve & bikeway project.