From: : : RE:
[Birding-Aus] biogeography of the Otway RangeDate: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:51:16
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Glen, my good friend,
How are you? I was wondering how I could report a remarkable bird sighting I
had up here recently. A flock of about 40 Superb Parrots was cruising around
the Caldwell area – I was visiting at a farm and the couple on the farm and
myself had leisurely views of these magnificent parrots, but definitely a first
recording for our area – they’re known to breed in the Barmah Forest which is
only about 90 km away.
Geoff Leslie
Pastor, Koondrook-Barham Baptist
50 Mellool St, Barham NSW 2732
web site: www.ruralministry.org
-----Original Message-----From: Glen Crothers
: Saturday, 1 March 2008 8:23 PMTo: Geoff
LeslieSubject: FW: [Birding-Aus] biogeography of the Otway Range
> From: > To: > Date: Thu, 28 Feb
> 2008 21:03:37 +1100> Subject: [Birding-Aus] biogeography of the Otway Range>
> > Michael Todd asked whether it is true that Eastern Whipbird and Superb
> Lyrebird are absent from the Otway Range in southern western Victoria. The
> answer is yes, along with some other wet forest birds as listed by Peter
> Fuller. Similar gaps appear in the mammal fauna - no Greater Glider or
> Mountain Brushtail Possum, no Brush-tailed Phascogale [not really a wet
> forest species but curiously absent] and no Common Wombat although this
> species used to occur on the Otway Plain to the north of the range and has
> inexplicably never been recorded in the Otway Range proper, even though the
> habitat would seem ideal.> > The usual explanation is that the savannah
> grasslands of the Victorian Volcanic Plain were a barrier to movement of
> these missing species [except the Wombat]. The Volcanic Plain extends to the
> sea in the Werribee-Avalon region and on the Bellarine Peninsula preventing
> forest-dependent species with little dispersal capability from crossing. > >
> Thus the Otway Range, and Wilsons Promontory for that matter, have bird and
> mammal faunas that can be considered intermediate between those of the
> forests of eastern Victoria and Tasmania.> > Peter Menkhorst>
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