These birds are older birds that have all contributed to the program, so are available for display. While they will be given every opportunity to breed it is not essential to the program that they do breed. Rather they will be displayed in an aviary planted to resemble their salt marsh habitat on the mainland. We are only 500 metres from Western Port Salt Marsh, which has been a very important habitat for this species. Our initial objective is to educate people of the importance of conserving this habitat. We will be building off display breeding aviaries soon. The recovery plan calls for a permanent captive population of about 350 birds, and I would hope we will provide about 10% of those places.
