With respect to my below comment on the ‘widespread species’,
Steve Holliday and John Leonard have quickly pointed out that this is now our
own Australian Little Bittern according to the
new Christidis & Boles. Thanks also to David Nowell for drawing
attention to the value of obtaining images of subspecies (as
we thought this was!).
The Acrocephalus might need to sail again.
From: Geoffrey Dabb [
Sent: Saturday, 9 February 2008 5:45 PM
To:
Subject: RE: [canberrabirds] Little Bittern
As the water-borne strategy had demonstrated its effectiveness,
I was prompted to re-launch after a very long interval the ‘Acrocephalus’, an
ancient cut-off Canadian ....
I shall probably not make the effort to get video as the IBC
website is well-served with footage from Europe of this widespread species.
