Mistletoes in Australia belong to two families, Loranthaceae and
Viscaceae. Volume 22 of the Flora of Australia (Bureau of Flora and Fauna,
Canberra, 1984) covers all taxa occurring in Australia for both of these
families, and no species is listed for Tasmania for either family. Cheers.
Frank
At 09:49 AM 8/12/04 +1000, you wrote:
"Birds of the High Country" edited by H.J. Frith, (Reed, 1969) at page 380:
"Its absence from Tasmania is perhaps explained by the absence of
mistletoe in that State."
Harry Frith was then Chief of the Division of Wildlife Research of CSIRO.
It seems unlikely, though not impossible, that he would fail to pick up such
an error, if indeed there are mistletoes in Tasmania.
Would someone with access to a Flora of Tasmania, please give us the answer.
Syd
> From:
> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 22:31:38 +1000
> To:
> Cc: birding-aus <>
> Subject: Re: [BIRDING-AUS] Mistletoebird - brainteaser
>
> wrote:
>>
>> What came first, mistletoe or the mistletoebird? : )
>
> Since there is lots of mistletoe in Tasmania but no Mistletoebirds I reckon
> you could work that out yourself !
>
> Incidentally this fact helps to prove that Mistletoebirds are quite recent
> arrivals to Australia as Tassie was joined by land to Wilson's Promatory in
> Victoria until the last great global warming (about 16,000 years ago).
>
> Michael Norris :-}}
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