Hi all,
Just to add. I was at Nightcap National Park (in Northern NSW) 3 weeks ago and
saw Topknot pigeons flocks of 100+.
Cheers,
Charles Hunter
On 24/04/2011, at 1:00 PM, "Greg Roberts" <> wrote:
> Regarding Andrew's note about Topknot Pigeons. Over the past couple of weeks
> I've seen unusually large numbers of Topknot Pigeons in the Sunshine Coast
> lowlands, especially about the Maroochy River and its tributaries. I suspect
> it has something to do with camphor laurel fruiting and would appreciate any
> suggestions.
> Also, last night I had great views of a Sooty Owl in the Mapleton Forest
> Reserve.
> Greg Roberts
>
> ""Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 19:35:39 +1000
> From: "Andrew Thelander" <>
> To: "'Birding-aus'" <>
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Sunshine Coast birds
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> Hi all
>
>
> A tour through the Mt Mellum area of the Sunshine Coast hinterland today
> resulted in some nice sightings including at least ten Barred cuckoo-shrikes
> in a fruiting Ficus obliqua (my spies tell me there were double that number
> in the tree just 2 weeks ago). Also observed a male Regent bowerbird feeding
> in a Polyscias elegans. Other species seen included Grey goshawk, Emerald
> dove, Catbird, King parrot, Brown cuckoo-dove, Varied triller and Chestnut
> breasted manikins feeding young.""
> Back in Nambour, there was a flock of 30 Topknot pigeons.
>
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