Hi Mike,
thanks for that info. We speak of two different races of PIPs, and we see
only the Torres Strait form. Are you sure it's them heading towards Cape York?
Are you sure your PIPs don't just fly to some islands to breed close to New
Guinea?
Any more info or details would be of great interest I think.
All the best,
Klaus
At 21:03 30/10/99 +1000, you wrote:
>To Klaus & others
>
>Several have remarked on the late and as yet low numbers of Pied Imperial
>Pigeons reaching parts of Queensland.
>
>Just saw 11 Pied Imperial Pigeons heading over the Papua New Guinea Savanna
>towards Cape York, so it they are still up here they cannot be in
>Queensland yet. It has been an unusual weather pattern this year. The
>first half of the dry was unusually wet, and so we really had a late dry,
>which could have delayed the birds.
>
>Hope they reach you.
>
>Mike
>
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>Pacific Adventist University
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>Papua New Guinea
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