I saw 1 Little Curlew in Ross River, Townsville from the Rosslea Golf
Course on 7th Jan.
Joan Wharton
On 19 Jan 2010, at 12:00 PM, wrote:
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1. Re: Letter-winged Kites? Little Curlew (Alan Gillanders)
2. RE: Black-headed Gull ID (Simon Mustoe)
3. Re: what chance an upcoming eruption of Letter-winged Kites?
(Greg & Val Clancy)
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Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:09:55 +1000
From: "Alan Gillanders" <>
Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Letter-winged Kites? Little Curlew
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I saw two Little Curlews near Kairi, Atherton Tablelands one night
while
looking for owls but they were gone in the morning. This has been the
limit
of my sightings this season.
Regards,
Alan Gillanders
Alan's Wildlife Tours
2 Mather Road
Yungaburra 4884
www.alanswildlifetours.com.au
Phone 07 4095 3784
Int. + 61 7 4095 3784
Mobile 0408 953 786
Alan's blog http://alanswildlife.blogspot.com/
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:36:00 +0000
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Subject: RE: [Birding-Aus] Black-headed Gull ID
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For the time being, I will leave the photo of the Black-headed Gull on
the site but query it. I hate trying to identify from poor photos,
particularly at odd angles...and for what is essentially an easy bird
to tell from Silver Gull, normally.
Darryel - if you are reading this, did you get any other shots?
Regards,
Simon.
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Subject: RE: [Birding-Aus] Black-headed Gull ID
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:12:51 +0000
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Nikolas,
My initial thoughts were the same but I would still err towards
Black-headed Gull. The heavily bicoloured bill, total lack of white
in the primaries and thick black tail band are good features. The
angle's not good though...a shot that shows the wing open is much
easier, as in Marc's.
!!Though I am happy to be corrected...please do!
I am going to be amongst loads of winter plumage Black-headed Gulls
in a day or two. I will take loads of photos and put up some
information on the species for some direct comparison. For now, here
is the current Silver Gull page on Wildiaries:
http://aussiebirding.wildiaries.com/species/19586 which shows a
reasonable range of plumages.
Regards,
Simon.
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:30:28 -0800
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Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Laughing Gull, Lord Howe, Black-headed
Gull comment
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Yes, the Laughing Gull on Simon's website is a first winter Laughing
Gull (at a first glance the upperparts almost look like in a second
winter, but there are still some juvenile coverts indicating that it
is a first winter), the dark grey back and sides of the neck and
flanks are another indicator (see also Andrew's comment), not only
length and heaviness of the bill but also its drooping tip are
characteristic. I miss their great call!
On the other side I am not happy with Darryel Binns' photo of the
Black-headed Gull, which shows an unusually thick bill and lacks the
characteristic head pattern. Marc Gardner's Black-headed Gull looks
better, although at this angle it almost looks like a Slender-billed
Gull.
Cheers,
Nikolas
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Nikolas Haass
Sydney, NSW
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From: Tom Tarrant <>
To: Simon Mustoe <>
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Sent: Mon, January 18, 2010 9:11:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Laughing Gull, Lord Howe
Are we certain that this is a Laughing Gull? I'm no expert but it
looks very
dark and deeper-billed to others that I've seen.
Would welcome the views of others more knowledgeable.....
Tom
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Simon Mustoe
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Hi,
I just popped a photo of the laughing gull up on
http://www.bird-o.com/,
kindly provided by Madelaine Rudder, c/o Ashwin Rudder.
If anyone has images of rarities or links to pages they have
uploaded
rarity images elsewhere e.g. on your blog, pbase, Eremaea etc.,
please let
us know so we can link to them.
We're still missing the poss semi-p.
Kind regards,
Simon.
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:27:20 +1100
From: "Greg & Val Clancy" <>
Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] what chance an upcoming eruption of
Letter-winged Kites?
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We had 9+ Letter-winged Kites along the Sandon Road, Yuraygir National
Park,
near Brooms Head, north coast NSW, in 1994. This was my first and only
record of the species anywhere in Australia. I must get out and about
a bit
more!!
Greg Clancy
Ecologist
Coutts Crossing
NSW
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