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Do I recall correctly that you were reporting on
one visit? If so aren't you reading too much into the results of one visit? At
this time of year, many birds of these species form mixed flocks and travel
around together. Your suggestion may be relevant but isn't it a simpler
explanation that they could have just been somewhere else, apart from where you
were, at the time you were there.
Philip
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From:
Steve Clark <>
To:
<>
Date:
Tuesday, 8 July 2003 8:44
Subject: Re: [BIRDING-AUS] What's
wrong with this list?
G'day all
Many folk
correctly guessed that I was disturbed by the total lack of
wrens,
thornbills, scrubwrens, fantails, robins, flycatchers, whistlers,
shrike-thrush, weebills, finches ...
We all know that some of
these are the birds that seem to be
disappearing from our woodlands but
I've never been in a forest totally
lacking them before. There
were so many other birds (honeyeaters and
lorikeets) around that I
didn't realise what was missing for a while.
Cheers
Steve
Clark
Hamilton, Vic
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