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Plains-wanderers: rare copulating footage

To: "'Philip Maher'" <>, <>
Subject: Plains-wanderers: rare copulating footage
From: Tony Palliser <>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 02:01:54 +1100
That was a truly wonderful clip - the clarity was sensational given that it
must have been taken by torch light.   

Cheers,
Tony





-----Original Message-----
From: Birding-Aus  On Behalf Of
David Taylor
Sent: Thursday, 9 January 2014 10:05 PM
To: Philip Maher; 
Subject: Plains-wanderers: rare copulating footage

Wow - fantastic and fascinating footage - thanks for sharing Phil

David Taylor

On 9 Jan 2014, at 4:24 pm, Philip Maher <> wrote:

> Hello
> 
> Chris Wood, Cornell University¹s ebird project leader, took some video 
> of a pair of plains-wanderers mating while he and colleagues were out 
> with me on
> 11 October 2013.  I have put a link to the video on the latest news 
> page of our website. We¹ve seen a lot of mating displays over the 
> years but never plains-wanderers actually copulating. This is a rare, 
> if not unique, piece of footage.
> 
> http://www.philipmaher.com/LatestNews1htm.htm
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> It¹s been the best breeding season for plains-wanderers on the Hay 
> Plain for about ten years even though rainfall was well below average 
> and spring was particularly dry. We did however have the best winter 
> rain for a long time, followed by a couple of inches in early 
> December.  As you¹ll see in the video, the habitat looks ideal with more
herbage (wildflowers) than grass.
> 
> We found three clutches of young and witnessed one of those clutches 
> of four small chicks grow to independence and a couple of independent 
> young of the other two clutches. On 28 December¹s Plains-wanderer 
> Weekend, we saw a pair doing a courtship display and past observations 
> would suggest that this pair may have been the parents of one of the 
> successful clutches recorded earlier in the season.
> 
> All this gives us hope the species might recover its numbers.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Philip Maher
> Deniliquin
> +61 3 58813378
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> Victoria Australia
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