On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 10:51:03AM +1100, N & J Russill wrote:
> A few of the locally interesting sightings on 17/12/02 around our local area
> ...
> * 1 Calamanthus (Striated Fieldwren) Woolooware Wetlands
Are you sure this wasn't Little Grassbird? Last time Striated Fieldwrens
in Sydney came up on birding-aus Tony Palliser posted this:
"It has been strongly suggested by a number of birders that
all of the Striated Fieldwrens reported in the Sydney region to date
including reports prior to 1998 from Kurnell) are likely to involve
misidentifications with Little Grassbird. If true this would mean that
there are NO confirmed records of this species from Sydney. The nearest
birds occupying such habitat that I am aware of come from Eden. Although
birds are apparently resident at high elevations just south of Nowra.
Is there anyone online that has seen Striated Grassbirds in the Sydney
region either historically or recently?
http://menura.cse.unsw.edu.au:1080/2001/07/msg00051.html
Andrew Taylor
Birding-Aus is on the Web at
www.shc.melb.catholic.edu.au/home/birding/index.html
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