RFI Little Corellas

Philip,

Yes I suspected as much. I hadn't read any postings of Corellas from the
Tuggeranong-Tharwa area before.

Cheers
Marnix



                                                                           
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                                          [canberrabirds] RFI Little       
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Marnix,
Here is my report to cog list of the "blitz" of last year. I also sometimes
encounter the Little Corellas at Kambah playing field and Harvey told me of
a group of 80 I think there.

I would hardly call it a blitz, more of a get out and have a look and
listen between and after the rain. I went on the phantom threatened bird
network Painted Snipe survey at Kelly's swamp and then the FSP after that
on Saturday (still good for Blue-billed Ducks (at least 13), Pink-eared
Ducks and the other somewhat less special usuals.

Sunday morning was spent at Tharwa and squares south of Tharwa. The
surprising thing was the flocks of Little Corellas. Previously I had only
seen them in Central Canberra and Queanbeyan, with the occasional ones at
Kambah and I don't recall mentions by other people that they had
encountered them in the south of the ACT before. We found flocks of 10 at
one site (the Namadgi Visitors Centre) and 30 at Gigerline. Those were only
the ones we saw clearly at close range and were probably only a small part
of the total, judging by the sounds coming from the huge mixed flocks of
white birds seen at considerable distance (most of which were surely
cockatoos).

We got most of the summer migrants as well.

Philip