There has been a significant increase in the number of Diamond
Firetails in the Dunlop grasslands area over the last two
weeks. This morning there were two separate flocks of about 10 and
15 respectively active along the Jarramlee road and Bicentennial
Horse Trail while a presumed separate flock of similar size was close
to the old sewerage pumping station yesterday. In the past, small
numbers (2-4) have been seen close to Jarramlee gate but these flocks
are unusual.
Joe Barr
At 09:25 AM 28/03/2006, Jenny Bounds wrote:
Greetings all: On the recent weekend, I saw one DFT with Southern
Whiteface in this area, near the carpark and track leading to
Shepherd's Lookout, just before you go down the road to the
treatment works. It has been good to see the re-surgence of this
species in various spots around Canberra in the last year or so,
after a long period of very few records.
May I encourage all observers of this species to put in a data sheet
to COG. One reason is that we have very few records of this species
at our 14 woodland monitoring locations, not enough to get any
meaningful trends from the data analysed. Several years ago, COG
did a nomination to have this species listed as a threatened species
under the ACTs Nature Conservation Act - this was unsuccessful,
partly because we did not have convincing enough (local) data of a
sufficient decline. DFTs are listed in NSW, but the bar here in
Canberra is higher! There may come a time when we will need to
consider another shot at a listing - and all these records will be valuable.
cheers
Jenny
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