Anglicised (mangled) local Aboriginal name - something more like Yarwang-i.
Just east of the township of Little River - not far from the famed Western
Treatment Complex (Werribee sewage farm) - about 20km towards Melbourne from
Geelong.
Great woodland birding ...
2008/9/30 Tony Russell <>
> Would anybody care to advise us where this "You Yangs" place is ? Weird
> sort of name .
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> On Behalf Of Paul Dodd
> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 9:31 AM
> To: 'Margaret Cameron'
> Cc: ; 'Graeme Brown'; 'Lawrie Conole'; 'Marilyn
> & Dean'
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] RE: White-browed Babbler at The You Yangs,
> Victoria
>
>
> Hi Margaret,
>
> Thanks for the email.
>
> I would be happy to write up the sighting, but without a photograph or a
> second independent sighting the best that could ever be hoped for is
> that it is noted as an unconfirmed report (or as Lawrie so elegantly put
> it, unreliable).
>
> I know that this sighting has piqued the interest of a number of
> birders, so hopefully there will be either more observations or a
> photograph or two. I must admit that I'm kicking myself, because both
> Ruth and I had our cameras with long lenses, but we both thought that
> the photographs of the babblers would have been at too large a distance
> to make "good" photographs, not quite realising the significance of the
> sighting at the time. We were certainly aware that the babblers were out
> of their normal range, but we assumed at the time that there would have
> been more frequent sightings in the area. In addition, I left my GPS in
> the car, so didn't get an exact fix on the location.
>
> I think that another visit or two to the site, with cameras at the
> ready, and the GPS on hand will be in order. Perhaps then there'll be an
> article worth writing.
>
> Paul Dodd
> Docklands, Victoria
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Margaret Cameron
> Sent: Monday, 29 September 2008 10:23 PM
> To: Paul Dodd; 'Lawrie Conole'; 'Birding Aus'
> Cc: Marilyn & Dean
> Subject: White-browed Babbler at The You Yangs, Victoria
>
> Hello Paul, Graeme etc
>
> This is a significant record. White-browed babblers have been considered
>
> extinct in the area for over 60 years, having been last reported in the
> You
> Yangs in the 1930s (HANZAB). There are no records as far as I know in
> the
> annual Geelong Bird Report (1984 on), nor in the Atlas (and no-one
> reported
> them on any of the hundreds of Atlas sheets for the Geelong region that
> I
> read).
>
> Paul, you have done the right thing by reporting your rare bird. Your
> message says "from the other responses I've had, it appears that
> babblers
> are an infrequent visitor to the You Yangs. Certainly not common, but
> definitely not unheard of."
> It would be really helpful if people who saw unusual birds like this did
>
> report them. As far as I know, they are "unheard of" by local
> birdwatchers -
>
> at any rate by me but I have not been there for 4 years. An Atlas form
> for
> an Incidental search and an Unusual Record Report Form would be one way
> to
> do it. A photograph would be excellent.
>
> As rare birds editor for Australian Field Ornithology I would welcome a
> paper about these recent records but I would really like a photograph to
> go
> with it.
>
> Margaret Cameron
> 2 Cintra Street
> Eastern Heights, Qld
> Australia 4305
> 07 3282 9151
>
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