Hello Carl
Red-lored Whistlers were first reported in NSW at Pulletop by Richard Schodde
and me back in 1964 - its all on my website. The nest was in the roadside verge
(which may not exist any more) from memory about 200 m east of the hut. We
never saw them within the Nature Reserve although Harry Frith had previously
seen them there during his research into Mallee Fowl. At that time there was a
very good Mallee Fowl mound close to the NW corner of the Reserve. I'll bet
that doesn't exist any more.
They were first found at Round Hill during the 1968 RAOU Campout by Beatrice
Goldstein from Sydney in the mallee east of Whoey Tank, from memory about a
kilometre from the area where people are allowed to camp.
The calls are also on my website, both from Pulletop and Round Hill - they do
differ a bit from material recorded in Victoria and South Australia.
I have never seen or heard a Red-lored Whistler anywhere else in NSW but I do
believe there are reliable records from over on the SA border north of
Wentworth. A word of warning, if you do use replay to try to attract a
Red-lored Whistler, sometimes a Gilbert's will respond and some male Gilbert's
in NSW are quite ginger coloured on the belly ( see my picture#403204D ). Adult
male Gilbert's have black lores, but young males don't so there is room for
confusion. So, in the heat of the moment, always look for the red lores - male
and female Red-lored are very similar to one another.
Red-lored Whistlers would be nesting right now and all that country out there
is in superb condition - the best year for many years - Black Honeyeaters (and
the odd Pied) all over the place, thousands of woodswallows gorging on
eremophila flowers,
I've never seen so many trillers, but lots of flies and some fairly ornery
weather.
Good luck
Graeme Chapman
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