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Re: birding-aus Bellbird habitat query

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Subject: Re: birding-aus Bellbird habitat query
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Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 15:31:57 +1000
     Syd,
     
     There are references to Bell Miners being on the slopes of the 
     escarpement close to Bulli mineshaft near Woolongong, NSW in the late 
     1800's. This area would have been temperate rainforest with some 
     eucalypt overstorey, the rainforest would have been mainly in the 
     creek beds which run down from the escarpment. They have not been 
     recorded in this site for many a year.
     
     On the south coast of NSW they tend to be in the wetter Eucalypt 
     forest areas. Studies on this species around Melbourne showed that 
     they prefer to be close to creeklines and water.
     
     
     
     Alan Leishman
     Royal Botanic Gardens,
     Sydney


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Subject: birding-aus Bellbird habitat query 
Author:  < (Syd Curtis)> at mailgate
Date:    28/8/99 6:03


     
In a newsletter of a conservation organisation (not a specifically 
ornithological one) there's a general account of a field trip in which 
reference is made to hearing bellbirds followed by the statement:
     
        "They are difficult to spot in the dull light of the rainforest."
     
I have regarded Bellbirds as a strictly Eucalyptus forest species.  Can 
anyone confirm that they also inhabit rainforest?
     
Syd Curtis at Hawthorne in Q.
     
H Syd Curtis

     
     
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