I received this email last night from Barbara Jones on the far south coast.
While it was sent to me personally, Barbara has allowed me to post it to
this forum. Of course it does not confirm my sighting, but it certainly adds
a little credibility! I now feel emboldened enough to submit a rarities
report.
Cheers
Alastair
-----Original Message-----
From: Barbara Jones
Sent: Tuesday, 24 May 2005 17:52
To: SMITH Alastair
Subject: Pied Imperial Pigeon
Hello Alistair,
I believe you!
On April 1, 2004 we had one here at Millingandi on the edge of Merimbula.
The viewer phoned me in amazement on the second visit of this bird to her
bird bath within an hour and described it as she watched it from her window.
I wrote down everything and asked questions as we went through the whole
bird description as it sat in front of her!. We sent all the information to
Alan Morris for acceptance by the NSW Rarities committee and although it has
not been formally accepted it should be !
Alan responded with the following:
Yours would be the third record for a PIP in NSW , the last record was for 4
seen and or shot at Urunga in 1916 so it is a very exiting find.
It was also included in the sightings column of Birds Australias Southern
NSW and ACT group supplement "Bird Notes' in Sept 2004, written by Alan
Morris and I don't think he would have included it if it wasn't worthy of
mention as a correct sighting - as yet to be accepted as I said.
I contacted all possible sources of an escapee from Mogo south and no one
had ever had this species so it all looked good. [snip]
Hope someone else sees it for you.
Regards,
Barbara
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