Hi Birders,
Cheryl (Birding-aus 27/4/05) asks information about the former distribution
of the Black-necked Stork in NSW in order to get to the bottom of the story
as to why Carrathool Council in far south--western NSW uses a possible
extinct stork as its Shire emblem. She infers that the bird could have been
once much more widely distributed in NSW than the current distribution of NE
NSW and then southwards to the Shoalhaven Region along the coast.
However the current distribution of the Black-necked Stork in NSW remains as
it has always been, except for the fact that in the last few years some
juvenile birds have been seen in north-west NSW following flooding rains in
that Region in the late 1990s & early 2000. There is nothing in HANZAB or
any other document that I have seen to suggest that its distribution was
once more widespread, at least since European setttlment. What we do know is
that there are more birds (breeding pairs) in NSW than what was previously
thought, thanks to the recent work of Greg Clancy.
Alan Morris
Records Officer, Birding NSW.
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