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Plains-wanderers: rare copulating footage

To: Ross Macfarlane <>
Subject: Plains-wanderers: rare copulating footage
From: Charles <>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 21:15:31 +1100
Great video Philip. 

Razzle dazzle best describes it for me.

The landscape also totally different to when I was in the area this time last 
year.

Cheers,
Charles Hunter
+61 402 907 577

> On 10 Jan 2014, at 6:26 pm, "Ross Macfarlane" <> wrote:
> 
> Fantastic! It's not hard to believe they are allied to the waders when you 
> see that mating behaviour...
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> -----Original Message----- From: Philip Maher
> Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 5:24 PM
> To: 
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Plains-wanderers: rare copulating footage
> 
> 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
> 
> 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
> 
> Australian Ornithological Services Pty Ltd
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