The Little Friarbird was knocked off the
COG “unusuals” list at its last revision, mainly because of the
regularity of records of the species from Mulligans Flat and, less frequently,
from the northern suburbs of the ACT. Good to see we’re still
getting them. I sometimes fear that as soon as a species ceases to be listed as
“unusual” it promptly becomes so. b
From: martin
butterfield [
Sent: Saturday, 28 March 2009 8:53
PM
To: Leo Berzins
Cc: COG chat line
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds]
Little Friarbirds in Queanbeyan
Excellent record
Leo. There have only been 19 previous records of Little Friarbirds in the
GBS - most of them in Summer or early Autumn and only 4 of them in the last 10
years.
Martin
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Leo Berzins <>
wrote:
Our birdbaths must have been getting plenty of use this
week, as they needed cleaning and topping up every evening. Amongst the detritus
there were numerous small, waxy discs.
Unencumbered by having to go to work this morning, I had the
opportunity to observe what has been happening. There are a couple of nearby
eucalypts that must currently have a large number of lerps which attract dozens
of honeyeaters, mostly Noisy Friarbirds. It's obviously thirsty work as for a
couple of hours there is a steady stream of birds drinking at our birdbaths
before returning for more lerps. In amongst them there were a couple of Little
Friarbirds like this one. A first for our GBS.
