Ten minutes is pretty big - several suburbs. Even back in the days when
no one had native plants in their gardens I'd expect to find at least a
little native vegetation within a ten minute block. I wonder if you
could assume that it wasn't very common in the areas where it wasn't
breeding (i.e. most of Melbourne).
Peter Shute
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> Hi all,
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> The VORG "Bird Atlas of the Melbourne Region", 1977, has
> Brown Thornbill listed for all but one of the 54 ten minute
> blocks that they surveyed around Melbourne. The one block
> where they were not seen was around the Melton area. It was
> recorded as breeding in the eastern suburbs but the
> information in the book is not detailed enough to show exactly where.
>
> They seem to be resident in the Melbourne General Cemetery,
> Carlton. They are even one of the two native birds on my back
> yard list (the other is Silvereye). My back yard is in
> Carlton North and is about 5 metres by 3 metres of concrete
> with one wattle tree.
>
> cheers
>
> Jen
>
> ---- Wendy McWilliams <> wrote:
> > Hi Peter
> >
> > We regularly get Brown Thornbills here in Glen Waverley (20 kms SE
> > from Melbourne CBD). Our first sighting was in 2000.
> >
> > Wendy McWilliams
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