We've recently had a thread about the status and location of hot-spots for
Great-crested Grebe. I wonder if we could turn our minds to Crested
Shrike-tits?
Reason being that it just occurred to me the other day that CST (or at
least the se race, I haven't seen it anywhere outside the se) is one of the
few birds which I can't really think of the habitat requirements for. I
seem to have see the sp in every type of wooded habitat from rain-forest
with palms (se Queensland) to exotic plantings in the ACT. Nor do the birds
seem to be very sedentary or predictable in their occurrence. I must see
them three or four times a year, but hardly ever in the same places, and
it's always unexpected to find them.
Have other people found this to be the case? What are its habitat
requirements?
John Leonard
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Woden, ACT 2606,
Australia
http://www.spirit.net.au/~jleonard
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