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Carl Clifford
> On 29 Nov 2013, at 15:02, "Jeff Davies" <> wrote:
>
> Well there you go, I type magnet and the autocorrect turns into something
> else, cheers Jeff.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Davies
> Sent: Friday, 29 November 2013 2:42 PM
> To: 'Clive Nealon';
> Cc:
> Subject: RE: [Birding-Aus] What happens to the vagrants
>
> Vagrant is probably an over strong term for these recently recorded migrants
> reported on Ashmore, except for the Willow Warbler which should have been
> geographically somewhere much further west. I would expect them all to
> survive and complete a migration back to their respective breeding
> locations. Most of these birds migrate into the Sundas, so Ashmore isn't
> really that big a step when compared to the total migration distance. I
> wonder how many of these lob into the Kimberley every season and go
> un-noticed in the vastness of the landscape. The birds are easier to find on
> Ashmore because it is tiny and acts as a magnate to any birds wandering
> south of the Sundas, same as Christmas and Cocos Islands. Increased trips to
> Ashmore, Christmas and Cocos are revealing many of these species to be
> "annual vagrants!!", all of them should be considered potential for NW
> Australia.
>
> Cheers Jeff.
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> On Behalf Of Clive Nealon
> Sent: Friday, 29 November 2013 1:51 PM
> To:
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] What happens to the vagrants
>
> The Willow Warbler from Europe is a regular and abundant migrant to southern
> Africa each year, so distance would not seem to present a problem.
>
>
> Regards, Clive.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sonja Ross <>
> To: Carl Clifford <>
> Cc: Birding-Aus Aus <>
> Sent: Fri, Nov 29, 2013 9:45 am
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] What happens to the vagrants
>
>
> I wondered about that last night as well, particularly on thinking about the
> Willow Warbler which is so small that you wonder how it could have got there
> in the first place!
>
> Sonja
>
>> On 29/11/2013, at 12:32 PM, Carl Clifford <> wrote:
>>
>> I thought struck me the other day (yes, it was painful). What happens
>> to the
> vagrant species that turn up at places such as Ashmore Reef or
> Christmas/Cocos Is.? Do they all die? Having arrived at these places due to
> weather conditions or navigational error, many, if not all, would certainly
> have problems re-orienting themselves, so I imagine that the chances of
> returning to their normal habitat would be fairly slim. I imagine that such
> places, particularly Ashmore, would be rather like an avian death row.
>>
>> Carl Clifford
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