Straw-necked Ibis - Tuggeranong area and help with Falcon ID please

["martin butterfield" <>]

On the subject of Straw-necked Ibis I counted 73 on various ovals at Duntroon yesterday. 

 

That is 73 more than the number of drongos I saw at Kingston or babblers at Duntroon (despite the excellent instructions given by Messrs Moffat for the former and Wright for the latter)..

Martin

 

 

On 1/9/07, Esme Barker & Bruce Ramsay <> wrote:

Yesterday afternoon at abt 4.45 in the Tuggeranong Town Park there was a group of 7 S-n Ibis on the "lawn" near Anketell St and about 100 metres away a solitary bird out of sight of them behind a grassy rise in the Park. And around 6pm Sunday there were 3 S-n Ibis on the Banks oval.

 

Also Sunday mid-afternoon, flying low and direct across the roadway between Kellys ex-Swamp and Fyshwick Sewerage Ponds was a large dark-brown falcon which exhibited a very prominent dark yellow mark on the face or side of neck region. As I was driving I only really got a glimpse so haven't got much more detail than that. It was more "bulleting" along (if that makes sense) on outstretched wings with only a couple of stiff, shallow wingbeats. It was heading to the Ponds with obvious purpose, but by the time I got the car parked any explosion of waterbirds had either ceased or never took place. My raptor identification skills are not good, so any ID help would be greatly appreciated - I guess the possibilities could be a dark Brown Falcon or an immature Peregrine.

 

Thanks,

Bruce