Located near Leeton in the Riverina region of NSW, Fivebough and Tuckerbil swamps are home to a vast array of amazing birdlife. Let's keep it that way...

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National Tree Day 2004. Members of Leeton Lions Club, Murrumbidgee Irrigation, and Fivebough and Tuckerbil Wetlands Trust, planting trees and shrubs along entrance to Fivebough Wetland

Murrumbidgee Field Naturalists members ( Dr Tom Smith, Eric Whiting, Mike Schultz, and Pattie Moller) erecting the Fivebough Swamp sign at the wetland entrance, October 1997.

Ian Oag and Henry Hancock removing rubbish at Fivebough November 1998.

Green Corps Team and supervisor Andrew McCashney with the assistance of Trust member Dino Poliniato, constructing internal fencing, April 1999.

Leeton High School Captains meeting and talking with Minister for Natural Resources, Richard Amery at the launch of the NSW Wetlands Policy, Fivebough Wetland, September 1997.

Earthworks building and repairing embarkments, and laying gravel pathways, March-April 2004

Budyaan Baamirra Centre, constructed by the Trust, August 2001.

Prepared construction site for Bittern Birdhide and fencing lines, May 2004.

Fivebough Wetland, photograph taken central area western edge looking across to south-east, July 1 1997.

Fivebough Wetland, photo taken central are western edge, looking due east across the wetland, July1, 1997.

Cattle grazing is used (January-June/July) in the eastern portion of Fivebough to assist maintaining habitat for waterbirds.

Entrance to Tuckerbil, May 2006, with trees established by Murrami and Wamoon Landcare, August 1993.

Cattle are used as a conservation management, to maintain low vegeation in the eastern portion for migratory Shorebirds (Waders).

Brolgas feeding in Tuckerbil, May 2006.

The Fivebough and Tuckerbil Wetlands Trust planted ~12,000 local native trees and shrubs throughout the western portion of Fivebough, 1998-2004.

Sharp-tailed and Marsh Sandpipers at Fivebough

World Wide Fund for Nature International representatives visiting Fivebough, September 2007.

Male Musk Duck displaying

Indigenous Riparian Restoration Team and supervisor William Ingram, August 2009.

Planting Black Box trees at Bittern Birdhide October 2004.

Example of gravelled walkways for visitors to Fivebough

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