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FW: [canberrabirds] Central Finch

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From: "Geoffrey Dabb" <>
Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 17:09:33 +1000

Sorry, I omitted from the list of ace finch-spotters Mat Gilfedder, well known in birding circles throughout Australia, whose sad departure from Canberra left Marnix to wear out several pairs of binos trying to keep up a reasonable flow of interesting reports to this chatline.

 

From: Geoffrey Dabb [
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Subject: [canberrabirds] Central Finch

 

Well done to Mark Clayton,  Steve Holliday, Benj Whitworth, Dave Sampson and Muriel Brookfield who all recognised an immature Gouldian Finch.  Quite tricky I thought and not something I could have done cold, I must say.

 

I thought you might have been put off by the ‘central’ association.  Rather surprisingly, it seems the only real ‘central Australian finch’ is the Painted, being the only one apart from the widespread Zebra that is found in Alice Springs.  [Map from Schodde & Mason ‘Directory of Australian Birds’]

 

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