New Holland Honeyeater: O'Connor

["martin butterfield" <>]

I presume that would be the little known subspecies, the Leaden New Holland Honeyeater. 

 

WRT to Geoffrey's tutorial on suburb naming I'm surprisd that Carwoola is on his approved list.  We regard ourselves as extra-urban rather than suburban.  I will leave it to the residents of Gleneagles to defend themselves, merely noting that I wouldn't stir up people with a higher than usual level of ownership of golf clubs!

 

Martin

 

 

On 3/15/07, <m("csiro.au","Rachel.Williams");"> > wrote:

P'raps the Crace birds are the ones in the National Wildlife collection...  :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Geoffrey Dabb [
Sent: Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:32
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Subject: RE: [canberrabirds] New Holland Honeyeater: O'Connor

Spendid work, Martin.  This kind of school-reporting is to be encouraged.  It is clear that the under-performing suburbs that need to lift their game, New-Holland-Honeyeater-wise, are:

 

AMAROO BANKS BARTON BONNER BONYTHON BRADDON CALWELL CASEY CHARNWOOD CHIFLEY CHISHOLM CONDER DEAKIN DICKSON DOWNER DUNLOP FISHER FLOREY FLYNN FORDE* FORREST FRANKLIN* FRASER GARRAN GORDON GOWRIE GRIFFITH GUNGAHLIN HACKETT HALL HARMAN HARRISON HUME ISABELLA PLAINS

JACKA* KALEEN KENNY* KINGSTON KINLYSIDE* LAWSON* LYNEHAM MACARTHUR MACGREGOR MCKELLAR MACQUARIE MAWSON MONASH MONCRIEFF* NGUNNAWAL NICHOLLS OAKS ESTATE O'MALLEY OXLEY PALMERSTON PARKES PHILLIP PIALLIGO RED HILL RICHARDSON RIVETT RUSSELL SPENCE STIRLING SYMONSTON TAYLOR* THEODORE THROSBY* TORRENS TURNER WANNIASSA WARAMANGA WATSON YARRALUMLA

 

Those I have marked with a * might have some excuse, being for the most part mere expanses inhabited by yellow-shirted surveyors, culvert-constructors and lake-emptiers, but some on the list should be at the tertiary stage of their G rosmarinifolia phase (eg Gowrie and Monash).  Others have passed well beyond that and will be at the stage of removing the remains of the Blue Spruce of circa 1961, in-filling their second swimming pool and laying mock-Tuscan stonework over the last square-metre of earth where the compost bin once rested.

 

(I am surprised to note that 'CRACE', which I had thought  to be pretty much sheep-paddock, graders and developers' hoardings is on your list.  Someone must have been very fast out of the starting gates with the G ros.)

 

As a passing comment I might mention that no suburb beginning with 'Mac' or 'Mc' has reported a NHH, although 50% of those starting with 'O' ' have done so.

 

Finally, I might note that 'Gleneagles', relatively swarming with NHHs with the seventh-most records, is, whatever else it might be, not listed in my street guide to the greater Canberra area (which includes Carwoola and Dodsworth) as either a suburb or locality.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From: martin butterfield [
Sent: Thursday, 15 March 2007 2:07 PM
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Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] New Holland Honeyeater: O'Connor

 

In view of the interest in this topic I have attached a spreadsheet showing which suburbs New Holland HE have been reported in for the full 25 years of the GBS.  In total they have appeared on 176 sheets.

 

Martin

 

On 3/15/07, Overs, Anthony (REPS) <> wrote:

I would have thought that with a reasonably high density of New Hollands at the nearby ANBG, folks might see the odd one here or there in Turner, O'Connor or even Aranda.

 

Anthony

 

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Subject: [canberrabirds] New Holland Honeyeater: O'Connor

 

A single New Holland Honeyeater passed through our garden in O'Connor last evening.  It the first that I have recorded and definitely not one of the local species.  Interestingly they have been in the tall forest along Wark's Road for some weeks.

 

Milburn

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