Hi Tonya,
Well what an interesting question and a
good word: “tractable”, I had to check my diction canary / talking
parrot before answering that one. Both the COG Atlas and the GBS Report provide
just about as good data about the status of birds as you’ll get anywhere.
If more places had as good data, we would be able to make comparisons, which is
the question you are asking. I don’t think comparable data exists, so we
go with impressions. It is easy to say a species is “common” in our
area or any other. But what does that really mean, when you get to a serious
question like yours? My impression is that in more forested and probably more
coastal environments within SE NSW generally, they are probably at higher population densities than
in the ACT.
Philip Veerman
24 Castley Circuit
Kambah ACT
2902
02 - 62314041
-----Original Message-----
From: Tonya Haff
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Sent: Monday, 19 January 2009 2:40 PM
To: Canberrabirds
Subject: [canberrabirds]
Fan-tailed Cuckoos
Hi all,
First off, thank you so much to everyone who gave me tips on where to find
frogmouths this time of year. We're going out this afternoon in
search of them - hope it works out!
I also wanted to probe the minds attached to this list-serve about Fan-tailed
Cuckoo abundance; I know that they're around, but don't seem particularly
common in Canberra. Do any of you all know where there are more abundant
populations? I'm trying to figure out if they might be a tractable study
species - they certainly don't seem common enough around here to work on.
Any thoughts would be welcome!
Cheers,
Tonya
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Tonya Haff
PhD candidate
School of Botany and Zoology
Australian National University
Mobile: 04-3331-2908
Lab: 6125-5651
