Thanks to the wonderful help of many people who kindly reported their sightings to me I was able to collect sufficent data to support the Grey Falcon's inclusion (in 2020) in the list of threatened species under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, category ‘Vulnerable’. The identification of threats to the Grey Falcon is the next step toward recommending conservation measures for this enigmatic species.

Since then, a further twenty individuals where marked, including nine that were fitted with solar-powered satellite transmitters. The bird below is the male partner of a breeding pair; it was captured and tagged on 9 October 2010 while its two young were near fledging age. In 2011, the same male was again the partner of a pair breeding in the same nest. The position data generated by the satellite transmitters help to understand the ecology of the species because the data help to assess home range size and understand the movements between breeding seasons, nest site choice, the influence of weather (i.e. short-term) and climate (long-term), and much more.

Please please refrain from publicizing the location of your observation. This includes online bird record sites such as ebird, Eremaea birdlines, BirdLife Australia's ongoing bird atlas, etc. The species is so rare and hard to find that a nest site, once published, will inevitably be visited by birders and bird photographers and this may have detrimental effects on the breeding result. In the light of the extremely small population any disturbance will have a strong impact on the fate of the species as a whole.

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