Hello Andrew
Thank you for your message and your interesting info of historical
records. We revisited the site this afternoon quickly locating the
bird again and observing it for about 1 hour. It seems to prefer a 200
metre stretch of river bank adjacent to the road flying away each time a
car passes but soon returns. Got some poor digiscoped images and the
bill shows some red that is not so easily visible using binoculars. I
have taken the libeerty of Cc your information to birding-aus.
Thanks again
Regards
Ian May
Andrew Silcocks wrote:
Hi Ian,
I was forwarded your email about your exciting discovery of a
Dollarbird at Scamander (I don't subscribe to Birding Aus).
I work on the New Atlas Project and have checked our databases for
other Tasmanian records. We don't have any from the new atlas period
(1998-2007), but I found a record in the historical atlas. The
reference was from Tasmanian Birds by Michael Sharland. He documents a
record of a bird shot by G Hinsby near Crotty, on the west coast in
1918. He also mentions an unconfirmed report of another on the
north-west coast some six years previously.
So, it would appear that your record is the first for almost 90 years
in Tasmania - a great record, well done!
Regards,
Andrew Silcocks
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