NSW & ACT TWITCHATHON PROVISIONAL RESULTS 2006
The NSW & ACT Twitchathon 2006 would appear to have been the most successful
twitch organised since Birds Australia Southern NSW & ACT Regional Group
(now BASNA) began organising them in 1994. This year 129 participants in 10
Main Race Teams, 18 Champagne Teams and 11 Childrens Teams (Dollarbirds and
Little Curlews) took part. At this stage all the results are not in for the
children’s team events but in the interest of the majority of people
scattered across the state in the various Bird Clubs who took part in the
Main Race & Champagne Events, it is considered reasonable to advise those
participants, who are the winning teams. Details of the results of the
preliminary results for the children’s competition will be published when
they are to hand. Obviously the Co-ordinator will have to review the various
species lists of each of the teams before officially declaring the results,
but in the meantime the provisional results are as follows:
MAIN RACE
This year the top team scored 233 species, five more species than has been
previously reported, as last year 229 was the top score.
First Prize: 233 Hunter Home Brewers (Mick & Steve Roderick, Craig
Anderson & Lucas Grenadier). Hunter BOC
Second Prize: 228 Whacked-out Woodswallows (David Geering, Carol
Probets, Clive Meadows). Dubbo/Blue Mountains
Third Prize: 214 Dodgy Drongos (Grant Brosie, Nick Livanos, Michael
Kearns & Robert Macdonald). Hunter BOC
202 Hunter Thickheads (Hunter BOC)
190 Central Coast Champions (BNSW Central Coast
Group)
189 Canberra’s Crazy Capital Chooks (Canberra
OG)
188 Black-necked Stalkers (Clarence Valley
BOC)
183 Cheerful Drongos (Sawtell)
175 Grey Toilet Thrushes (Cumberland BOC)
154 Eastern Whiplashes (Laurieton)
CHAMPAGNE RACE
First Prize: 167 Lessticum Phoradae (Liz Huxtable, Rachael
Russell, Sue Tiley and Liz Livanos). Hunter BOC
Second Prize: 156 Crested Shrike-twits (Jim Smart, Lorna Mee, Paul
Baird). Hunter BOC
Third Prize: 145 Two teams viz Jizz Birding (Margaret Pointer, Kaye
Pointer, Carole Carpenter, John Carpenter) BNSW CCG & The Old Birds (Jenny
Powers, Di Johnson, Jenny Helman, Chris Eastham, Dave Eastham) Hunter BOC.
137 Lucky Bustards (Canberra OG)
133 Happy Wanderers (Murrumbidgee Nats)
133 Out For a Lark (Murrumbidgee Nats)
125 Spineless Spinebills (Far South Coast
Birders)
117 Warbler Specklers Less One (Cumberland BOC)
113 Babbling Grey-crowns (Murrumbidgee Nats)
113 Stoned Terns (Canberra OG)
112 The Collective (Canberra OG)
104 Spangled Drongos (Murrumbidgee Nats)
103 Liar Birders (Sydney)
96 Red-faced Parrots (Birds Australia -
Sydney)
80 Wooden Spoonbills (Birds Australia -
Sydney)
80 Northern Twitchers (Canberra OG)
70 Matheson Mopokes (Glen Innes)
56 Counting Crows (Sawtell)
Congratulations to the four Murrumbidgee Naturalist Teams who entered the
competition for the first time and have started the long climb to overturn
the dominance of the Hunter BOC in the competition. It was great to see the
increased number of bird groups who supported the Twitchathon in 2006.
Congratulations too to all the people who took part and to all those people
who sponsored them. Preliminary advice to the co-ordinator would appear to
be that our target of $14000-15000 as proceeds towards the Australia Bird
Study Association’s Research Fund, will be met!! Great News!!
Many thanks too to our major sponsors who so willingly supported our
Twitchathon in 2006 viz Alison Green Designs, Australian Bird Study
Association, Banrock Station Wines, Birds Australia, Bombah Point Eco
Cottages, Fivebough & Tuckerbil Wetland Trust, Follow That Bird Tours, John
McLennan, Sean Dooley, Steiner Binoculars (Mainstay Marine Pty Ltd) &
Undercliff Winery
Alan Morris
Co-ordinator
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