00:00We hatched them and this is the area where they've been let go.
00:08We put the eggs in the incubator and we're lucky to have three eggs.
00:14We ended up with two lovely chicks.
00:17It goes probably 60 years since I first looked at belly fowl.
00:24We learned about them at school.
00:26Over that time, well I just was fascinated with the way they built a mound, how they
00:34laid the eggs, when they laid the eggs and how they built the temperature up in the mound.
00:44The fire has gone right through the central block.
00:48It's really knocked the whole place about and the nutty fowl, they've got to try and
00:54find another refuge somewhere or some sort of vegetation.
00:58They may live there but they may not reproduce because the habitat might not be suitable.
01:05That's why we're releasing them here because look at the height of it.
01:09You're looking at probably 10 metres of vegetation around here.
01:15So it's been a great exercise over the years that we do know that the beesbirds do survive.
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