stagwatching

Verb

stagwatch (third-person singular simple present stagwatches, present participle stagwatching, simple past and past participle stagwatched)

1. (Australia) To 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...