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Certainly the answer to your question is yes, but that fully depends what
are your distance limits on "elsewhere". They are a species that I have
encountered huge numbers of times around SE Australia generally, but not often
in the ACT region. In the ACT region, those spots I recall have been Googong Dam
foreshores, Tuggeranong Lake, before the lake was there, and Bungendore Sewage
works. That is hardly surprising, when you look at the habitats they most
prefer, there is not much of it in the ACT Region and what there is is quite
marginal.
Philip
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From: John Layton [
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Subject: [canberrabirds] White-fronted Chats
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Are there any reasonably reliable places at Stromlo Park or elsewhere where
we may see the mythical White-fronted Chats? Been there thrice, but the
White-fronted have not fronted. As Elder Brat remarked, "They're fig birds,
figments of a birder's imagination." Such quaint cynicism may stem from the fact
she's an Arts/Law sophomore.
John Layton
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