Grey Butcherbirds [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

["Perkins, Harvey" <>]

Well what do you know - this morning I had TWO Grey butcherbirds at my place in Kambah. At least one was an adult, but the other I only heard. They were very active and vocal. As were the Noisy Friarbirds!

 

I've probably recorded Grey Butchers about half a dozen times previously around home, over about half a dozen years.

 

Another unfortunate arrival to my GBS area is a small group of Noisy Miners. I've been GBSing at my current place since 1994 and had had a couple of records of itinerant Noisy Miners, but since 26 January this year there has been a group of at least three (maybe more) that move around the area, and being characteristically noisy!

 

Harvey

Harvey Perkins
CRC Strategy and Communication Section
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Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research

 

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From: martin butterfield [
Sent: Wednesday, 11 March 2009 6:27 PM
To:
Cc:
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Grey Butcherbirds

I will stick to my threat to put a graph of A values, and F values in
my next Gang-gang article.  However I thought members might be
interested  in early notice of the outcome of taking a quick squizz at the
data the number of Grey Butcherbirds recorded for the last 3 years of the
GBS:  Year 25 -71; Year 26 - 150; Year 27- 340.  The comments over the
past few days lead me to suspect the pattern may well continue for year
28.

Martin

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 9:05 AM, <> wrote:

I've had one in my area for last couple of weeks, but have never recorded
one previously. yesterday it had been joined by another, and the two were
engaged in a noisy altercation with a pied currawong.  there are also a
lot more king parrots around than usual - at times up to six in my garden.
sandra henderson

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