It is certainly a regular among the
squashy plants and sandflats at Comerong
Island on the South Coast.
Sue
From: Geoffrey Dabb
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Sent: Wednesday, 26 July 2006 9:31
AM
To:
Subject: RE: [canberrabirds] More
thoughts on White-fronted Chats
What is the ‘right place’ for
a bird? I can recall some years ago in a COG presentation on the species David McDonald saying that he had once thought the
WFC was an inland bird and was surprised to find that it occurred on the
coast. My own experience was exactly the reverse. In my early
birdwatching days, more than 55 years ago, I would find it around foreshore
areas with sticky black mud and that squashy plant that I now understand to be
‘beaded glasswort’. That was in the Geelong
area, where good spots were Limeburners
Bay (otherwise known as the Geelong Grammar School lagoon) and Point
Henry. I used to wonder why I had no luck finding those other, more
brightly-coloured chats that were next to the WFC in my Cayley. I notice
from the BA atlas that while the WFC is thinly distributed over much of SE
Australia, and Canberra is, spatially, well
within its range, the true stronghold of the species is the Bass
Strait islands, where one wonders if it might not have
occasionally gone into the soup along with the shearwater.
From: Steve Holliday [
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 3:51
PM
To:
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds]
White-fronted Chats near Weston Creek
Two chats were seen in the same place around 11.30 this
morning
