Meanings
present singular third person stagwatches · participle present stagwatching · participle past stagwatched · past stagwatched
- AustraliaTo observe the environment of nocturnal tree-dwelling animals as they move in and out of hollows.
Each of the 152 survey sites was stagwatched once and the number of observers used in the survey at each site was matched with the characteristics of that site so there was at least one and often two observers assigned to each hollow-bearing tree.
2006 July 28, DB Lindenmayer, “Patterns of co‐occurrence among arboreal marsupials in the forests of central Victoria, southeastern Australia”, in Australian Journal of Ecology, volume 22, number 3, page 340
Origin
From stag tree, an old hollow-bearing tree favoured as a habitat by possums, gliders and other species + watch.
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