‘Osprey cam’ streams life of nesting seabirds perched at tip of 55 metre-long Queensland rainforest canopy crane

It started by chance – but it should have come as no surprise that two ospreys would pick a hi-tech research facility to make their home. James Cook University’s 47-metre tall crane towers over the far-north Queensland rainforest canopy, making it the perfect nesting place for the seabird. Year in, year out, the birds return to nest, regardless of the spot’s challenges. “The crane is constantly moving,” the station manager of the university’s Daintree Rainforest Observatory, Johan Larson, said. …