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Rarities at Ashmore Reef and elsewhere in the Browse Basin

To: Laurie Knight <>
Subject: Rarities at Ashmore Reef and elsewhere in the Browse Basin
From: Carl Clifford <>
Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2014 16:32:47 +1100
Laurie,

Nice bit of open verse.

Carl


> On 8 Nov 2014, at 23:15, Laurie Knight <> wrote:
> 
> Yes, there is that Carl, 
> but you must remember 
> like the proverbial port in a storm
> Islands are magnets for terrestrial birds lost over water.
> 
> :)
> 
> 
>> On 8 Nov 2014, at 8:02 pm, Carl Clifford <> wrote:
>> 
>> Google Earth shows an airport on Browse Is. That would be convenient for 
>> birders. Looking at the island on GE, I don't think I would like to land 
>> there.
>> 
>> If birds like these are being found on Browse Is., surely there must be 
>> similar reaching the mainland. I suppose that the main reason there are few 
>> mainland sightings is there are too few observers and too much ground.
>> 
>> Carl Clifford
>> 
>> 
>>> On 8 Nov 2014, at 16:08, Rohan Clarke <> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi All,
>>> 
>>> A team from Monash University are currently working in the Browse Basin off 
>>> north-western Australia. On Thursday morning at Browse Island (about 70 km 
>>> off the Kimberley coast and in the state of Western Australia) they had a 
>>> Tiger Shrike, 3 Arctic-type Warblers and a Grey Wagtail. At least one of 
>>> the Arctic-types was heard to utter the diagnostic contact call of Arctic 
>>> Warbler (not Kamchatka Warbler which appears near-identical)
>>> 
>>> They arrived at Ashmore Reef yesterday and have already had an Asian Brown 
>>> Flycatcher, Pechora Pipit, several Oriental Reed Warblers and several 
>>> Arctic-type Warblers (amongst a few other bits and pieces).
>>> 
>>> They have 10 more days in the Browse Basin doing seabird and shorebird 
>>> surveys so no doubt there will be a few more goodies found before the trip 
>>> ends!
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Rohan
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Rohan Clarke
>>> www.wildlifeimages.com.au
>>> 
> 

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