On the NSW Central Coast, there is a lot of Broadleaf Privet and Camphor
Laurel, especially around the Ourimbah area. Every fruiting season there is an
influx of Topknot Pigeons. Great for the pigeons, bad for the environment, as
the seeds are then spread widely.
Carl Clifford
> On 8 Aug 2015, at 12:42 pm, Chris Charles <> wrote:
>
> Kai,
>
> In the Sydney basin, weeds such as privet, exotic flowering species & native
> hybridised species of the urban landscape support an artificially high
> density of Ringtail Possums. Unlike the natural native environment there is
> usually always something flowering even in hard times.
> This same urban environment supports an artificially high density of Powerful
> Owls - (it was 50 years after European settlement before PO’s were first
> recorded.)
>
> Chris Charles
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>> On 6 Aug 2015, at 11:04 am, Kai <> wrote:
>>
>> I'd be interested to hear from Aussie birders as to what non-native habitat
>> is, in your observations, the most diverse in its birdlife. ~Kai
>>
>> *Kai Schraml*
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>>> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Peter Shute <> wrote:
>>>
>>> It was the plantations in the upper Ovens Valley arount Bright that I was
>>> thinking of when I made the same comment earlier. As others have said, it's
>>> likely to be the density of the plantations that makes them unsuitable for
>>> bird life. I once read a comment here that Spotted Quail-thrush can be
>>> found in the thinned plantations, but I've never managed to see any.
>>>
>>> Peter Shute
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Birding-Aus
>>>> On Behalf Of
>>>> Steve Painter
>>>> Sent: Thursday, 6 August 2015 8:56 AM
>>>> To:
>>>> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Emus and pines
>>>>
>>>> My experience with pines in the Chiltern area, where I spent
>>>> my childhood and teenage years, is that they are completely silent.
>>>> Fortunately there are not many pines in the Chiltern area,
>>>> mainly around the Barambogie reservoir. I've had similar
>>>> experiences in pines in the Bundanoon area of the NSW
>>>> Southern Highlands.
>>>>
>>>>
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