The following Outback Twitchathon results have come through from Frances
Czwalinna
Team Location of Twitchathon
Results
Whacked Out Woodswallows NW NSW 129
Bourke Bustards Bourke/Cobar, NSW 111
Mallee Foulups Tibooburra/Wentworth, NSW 111
Orange Chatters Kidman Way, NSW 110
Sooty Slickers SW Qld 97
Rylstone Curlews SW Qld/NSW 93
Berkeley Vale Bustards Qld 85
Crows, The Nth WA 84
Outback Tropicbirds W.Qld, NT 82
Habichats Hillstone to Ivanhoe, NSW
81
Fowl Play Willandra NP, NSW 77
Bowra Babblers Bowra, NSW (Qld ???) 70
Flying Finnies Wyndham WA 68
Newhaven Wanderers (Emu Tours) Newhaven Reserve 57
CBOC at Newhaven (Emu Tours) Newhaven Reserve 54
Peripatetic Penguins, The NT Haasts Bluff Aboriginal Lands 50
Outback Tropicbirds W.Qld, NT 82
Wobbly Erphorbia's White Cliffs NSW Did not
participate
There have been a number of reports on birding-aus that clearly indicated
that participants had a great time. I personally think the number of
teams participating was great although perhaps down on what we expected
had much (all?) of the inland not been in the grip of a drought. I'm sure
this put a few people off. A number of teams participated simply to take
part and raise money which was the spirit in which this one-off event was
meant.
The conditions in which the twitchathon was conducted certainly made for
interesting birding. I know that the Whacked-Out Woodswallows had to work
very hard for their birds with a number of species that you would expect
completely missed. Many other species, particularly small seed and insect
eaters, were found to be much scarcer than they have been during the last
couple of very good years.
Frances is still collecting money from teams so at this stage we don't
know how much was raised for Newhaven.
Thanks to everyone that participated or sponsored a team
David Geering
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