Trip report - Falls Creek, Victorian Alps,17-23 Feb 2002

[Lawrie Conole <>]

>Maybe it's just that birds have the option of simply flying 
away to
>alternative habitat when  conditions get too bad???

Hi Harvey

It could be as simple as that I agree!  But in other alpine 
areas of the world, birds have evolved to occupy specialised 
alpine niches.  In Australia it seems that at least summer 
alpine resources/niches are vastly under-exploited by birds 
though.  So even though the lack of alpine endemics seems 
fair enough, the small number of resident and/or migrant bird 
species using the area in summer still surprises me.

L.

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