RE: ???Grey Falcons in Canberra

["Conole, Lawrie" <>]

> remember long ago during the RAOU ATlas Project, we had a record of a
> Grey
> Falcon not far west of Canberra.  We checked it out, and it turned out
> to be
> a grey-phase Australian Kestrel. All that glitters is not gold nor is
> every grey raptor a Grey Falcon!
> 
... no, some of them are Grey Goshawks too.  A few years ago there was a
grey raptor at large in the south Wimmera-Grampians area of Victoria for
about a year.  I saw it at Jilpanger, south of Mount Arapiles, and it
was quite clearly a grey morph Grey Goshawk - well out of range (for
that colour morph) and probably rarer in western Victoria than a Grey
Falcon!

Lawrie Conole
2/45 Virginia Street
Newtown 3220 Victoria
AUSTRALIA