Hi Mick & everyone else This is an amazing number of birds together. The most
birds that I have seen is a group of 9 together that myself & Adam Arnold
recorded at a wetland SW of Georgetown (FNQ) on 29/10/06. A survey report was
submitted to the APS recovery team. At the time we thought this was a very
large gathering, but 57 birds is awesome news. Cheers Martin CachardCairns0428
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> Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:50:46 -0800
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> Subject: [Birding-Aus] APS at the Macquarie Marshes and numbers in general
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> Hi all,
>
> For those of you who haven't seen it, there has been a recent report of a
> count of 57 Aussie Painted Snipe by Steve Edwards, Dick Jenkin and Dave
> Stuart on a private property in the Macquarie Marshes on Birdline.
>
> See http://www.eremaea.com/BirdlineRecentSightings.aspx?Birdline=6
>
> It's worth looking at for the image alone, in which there are 30-odd birds!
>
> The recent Action Plan for Aust Birds estimates the entire population at
> between 1000 and 1500 individuals, so the Marshes count epresents 3.8% of
> the upper estimate.
>
> Is anyone aware of such a gathering in the past?
>
> I know Mike Honeyman posted recently about post-breeding flocks in good
> seasons of 10-20 birds in historical records. Another recent thread on this
> species mentioned 97 birds reported to Birdline NSW alone, and I know that
> the birds initially reported on Ash Island as a count of 4 rose to 7 before
> they seemed to leave that spot.
>
> Now might be a good time to try and co-ordinate some sort of count across its
> range?
>
> Mick
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