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Little Friarbirds in Queanbeyan

To: "'martin butterfield'" <>, "'Leo Berzins'" <>
Subject: Little Friarbirds in Queanbeyan
From: "Barbara Allan" <>
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:14:03 +1100

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.

 

Regards,

Leo.

 

 

 

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