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Butcherbirds (was Range of Weebill)

To: Stephen Ambrose <>
Subject: Butcherbirds (was Range of Weebill)
From: Carl Clifford <>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 13:36:41 +1000
I regularly have a pair in my yard, at Gorokan, on the NSW Central Coast
and several times I have had Grey and Pied singing nearby.

Carl Clifford

Gorokan Nsw



On Monday, April 16, 2018, Stephen Ambrose <> wrote:

> My impression (not based on hard data) is that Grey Butcherbirds have
> increased in abundance in the suburbs of Sydney too (north of the harbour,
> at least).  I don't have an obvious explanation for why this may be the
> case.
>
> Stephen Ambrose
> Ryde, NSW
>
>
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> perhaps the increase in butcherbirds around the suburbs of Melbourne in the
> last few decades is because there is now more suitable habitat and
> available
> food.
>
> whenever I've visited Melb to see old friends & family, particularly around
> the eastern burbs of Blackburn, Box Hill, the Waverley's, and the Bayside
> areas, I have noticed some nice changes in the local native birdlife
> there...
>
> because I've lived up here in gorgeous FNQ since 1996, and these Melb
> locales were my old stomping grounds from when I was a boy and a MUCH
> younger man, these changes are not only a pleasant surprise, but they are
> also rather obvious to me as I'm not visiting them very often...
>
> in general, there are a lot more smaller birds around, like Brown
> Thornbills, White-browed Scrub-wrens, Superb Fairy-wrens etc, in people's
> residential gardens in these burbs. I hear butcherbirds calling in the dawn
> chorus in pretty much every suburb I overnight in when visiting, much more
> so than in the 70's to early 90's.
>
> as suburbs like these develop and mature, so does the vegetation that is
> within them as well - it seems to me that a nice mosaic of vegetation types
> has thus been created, and with enough shrubbery and other cover to 'bring
> back' such smaller songbirds as these, and of course, this supports more
> families of butcherbirds.
>
>
> the increasing controls on domestic cats has no doubt helped a great deal
> as
> well.
>
>
> and of course, this note of mine is a very general, and possibly a slightly
> romanticised, view of things, but I reckon that this helps to explain the
> butcherbirds increasing, especially in the greater eastern suburbs where I
> am from, and have been visiting in the last 22 years too...
>
>
> cheers for now,
>
>
> martin cachard
>
>
> writing to you now from a VERY NON-cyclone ravaged FNQ...
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
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> Shute <>
> Sent: Monday, 16 April 2018 5:07 AM
> To: Mike Carter
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> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Range of Weebill
>
> What's the reason for the increase in butcherbirds? People feeding them?
>
> Peter Shute
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On 15 Apr 2018, at 8:34 pm, Mike Carter <> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Patrick, Buff-rumped Thornbill is even more unlikely; that 2006
> publication that I mentioned lists that species as extinct on the
> Peninsula.
> Yellow-rumped Thornbill is a possibility but is distinctive so unlikely to
> be confused and has a patchy distribution. White-browed Scrubwren has a
> prominent white eye and would be plundered by Grey Butcherbirds which have
> become more common in built-up areas in the last three decades.
> >
> >
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