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Hello Bruce,
HANZAB 1V p 1015 records the Spotted Nightjar as occurring as far east
in NSW as Moree, Baradine, Goonoo SF, Hill End, Cowra, Temora and Wagga
. It refers to one doubtful coastal record, a dead bird brought in by car
near Bega in 1921, and indicates that the bird in question was probably
a White-throated Nightjar.
We'll probably have to wait until Alan Morris gets back from Turkey
in a few weeks for a break down of NSW records, but I'd say that if it
was a SN, it would be the first record for Sydney.
Regards,
Colin Scouler.
Bruce Roubin wrote:
Good eye, I
just watched a nightjar just after sunset tonight (fronm 5 to 5.30pm),
in its erratic and batlike feeding flight over a stand of casuarinas.It
had rounded wings and very prominent white wing patches - which I could
see everytime I looked through my binoculars,no
spotlights. Has to be a Spotted Nightjar, hasn't it? -
the only problem is that I was on the coast, at H1 wetlands at Cronulla
Sydney!Could it be
a vagrant winter migrant?Anyone else seen one
east of the Divide? Regards
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