ACT region Hotline highlights

[Ian Fraser <>]

Highlights from twice-weekly Canberra Ornithologists' Group (COG) hotline,
for week ending 27 April (some reports are of earlier obs).

WHITE-NAPED HONEYEATERS 15,000 passing one point on the Murrumbidgee River
(Angle Crossing) on 19/4, plus some Fuscous and Red Wattlebirds;
Yellow-faced virtually all gone

GREY BUTCHERBIRD with sparrow jammed in fork of shrub, inner suburban Red Hill

DUSKY WOODSWALLOWS      still lots about, later than expected

YELLOW-TAILED BLACK-COCKIES     3 over suburban Duffy, 24/4. [very unusual,
though common in ranges and near suburban pine plantations]

WHITE-HEADED PIGEON     24/4, suburban Waramanga [this borders on the silly!]

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Hotline number: 02 6247 5530
COG web site: www.canberrabirds.dynamite.com.au/
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Ian Fraser, Canberra  
Environment Tours; Vertego Environmental Writing Consultancy
ph: 02 62491560 fax: 02 62473227