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It so happens that I have my spreadsheet handy at work.
Below is a ‘complete’ guide to the status of the
Yellow-tufted Honeyeater in our region from various sources.
ACT Regional
Status
Source
RARE
Birds of the Canberra Region, Field List (4th ed) (1993)
UNCOMMON BREEDING VAGRANT
Canberra
Bird Notes, COG (2007)
FAIRLY COMMON
RESIDENT
Birds in
the Australian High Country, Frith, H.J. (ed) (1984)
UNCOMMON
Ecological
Resources of the ACT, Technical Paper 42, NCDC (1984)
RARE
VAGRANT
Birds of
the ACT: An Atlas, COG & Taylor, I. McC (1992)
RARE VAGRANT
Birds of
the ACT: Two Centuries of Change, COG & Wilson, S. (1999)
VERY RARE
(‘one-binocular’)
Field
Guide to the Birds of the ACT, Taylor & Day (1999)
UNCOMMON
Native
Species - ACT: State of the Environment Report, ACT Government (2000)
RARE
VAGRANT
Annotated
Checklist of the Birds of the ACT, COG (2007)
RARE
CSIRO
List of Australian Vertebrates: A Reference with Conservation Status (Second
Edition), CSIRO, Clayton, M. et al (2006)
ACT Local
Status
Source
IRREGULAR SIGHTINGS or OCCASIONAL (WINTER),
NOMADIC
National
Botanic Gardens, Department of the Capital Territory (1980)
INFREQUENT or RARE SIGHTINGS, RARE and VAGRANT
SPECIES Checklist of birds of the ANBG, Fyfe M.
(1997) plus previous printed editions
UNCOMMON, REGULAR VISITOR
(April-August)
Nature
Guide: Black Mountain Reserve & Ainslie-Majura Reserve, Department of the
Capital Territory, Williams, J. (1976)
(not
recorded)
Jerrabomberra
Wetlands NR Draft Management Plan, ACT Parks & Conservation Service
(Revised ed) (1991)
RARE, NOMADIC (AN OCCASIONAL
VISITOR)
Birds of
Tidbinbilla, Environment ACT (1997)
(not
recorded)
Birds of Mulligans
Flat, Environment ACT (2007)
(not
recorded)
Birds of
Canberra Gardens, Veerman, P. & Urban Services, ACT Govt (2000)
UNCOMMON, WINTER (ALTITUDINAL
MIGRANT?)
Canberra
Birds: Garden Bird Survey, Veerman, P. (2003)
(not
recorded)
Birds
recorded at Ainslie/Majura Nature Reserve, COG (2007)
RARE, NOMADIC (AN OCCASIONAL
VISITOR)
Googong
Foreshores Bird List 2008, ACT Parks & Conservation Service (2008)
RARE
MIGRANT
Namadgi
National Park Bird List, ACT Parks & Conservation (?)
Regional & Local Status Wider
Afield
Source
UNCOMMON,
SEDENTARY
Birds of
the NSW Far South Coast, Far South Coast Birdwatchers (2000)
UNCOMMON BREEDING RESIDENT
(LOCAL)
Nature in
Eurobodalla, Eurobodalla Natural History Society, Andrew, E. (Compiled by)
(2004)
MODERATELY COMMON
RESIDENT
A
Handbook of Birds found in the Illawarra, Shoalhaven and adjacent Tableland,
Illawarra Bird Observer's Club, Chafer, C. (1999)
MODERATELY
COMMON
List of
Birds, and their status, found in the Illawarra, Shoalhaven and Adjacent
Tables, Chafer, C. (?)
COMMON
RESIDENT
Birds of
Shoalhaven City, Shoalhaven City Council (2006)
RATHER RARE,
NOMADIC
Birds of
South-eastern Australia, Urban Areas, Reid, A. (Gould League Series Revised ed)
(2005)
Confused? I am.
Goes to show how little we really know.
Marnix Zwankhuizen | Assistant Director
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From: Geoffrey Dabb [
Sent: Friday, 15 May 2009 11:37 AM
To: 'martin butterfield'
Cc: 'Canberra Birds'
Subject: RE: [canberrabirds] Yellow-tufted Honeyeater in Gordon
[SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
Perhaps newcomers to this list would enjoy a restaging of the
Zwankhuizen/Veerman symposium on “Is the Yellow-tufted Honeyeater a rare
species in Canberra?”. Apart from the actual occurrence of the
YTHE, this exchange cast valuable light on the meaning of
‘rare’. As I recall, Marnix, unlike Philip, attached
conclusive importance to the ‘one-binocular’ designation of the
species [see McComas Taylor & Nicolas Day (1993) Birds of the ACT ]
From: martin butterfield
[
Sent: Friday, 15 May 2009 11:20 AM
To: Perkins, Harvey
Cc: Esme Barker and Bruce Ramsay; Canberra Birds
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Yellow-tufted Honeyeater in Gordon
[SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
I reckon Bruce's comment
"a pretty
unusual recording occurrence" is spot on.
To the end of last GBS year there are 36 records (species x site x year) of
Yellow-tufted Honeyeater (YTHE) in the GBS ranking it as 116th out of 233
"species". There are 95 observations (species x site x year x
week) of the species giving it a rank of 127 of 233. The species has been
recorded in 17/27 years spread fairly evenly through the period. So, to state
the obvious, it is not a common species.
Of the 36 records, 22 contain a single record (ie only seen one week in a year
at a site). Of the 12 multi-observation records only 2 are
scattered. 7 records - including ones with 7-9 observations - consist of
records consisting of a single string of consecutive observations and the other
3 have a string of several consecutive weeks with one or two separate but not
distant observations. So in about a quarter of cases where the species
fronts up it will hang around for more than a week.
I have yet to check the coincidence of YTHE and White plumed Honeyeater (as the
Yankees-Blue Jays game is getting interesting) but I will see what can be
gleaned about that later today.
I have put quotes around "species" above as we now have a GBS code
for Rosella hybrid so could Harvey record it as such on his chart.
Martin
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Perkins, Harvey <>
wrote:
Hi Bruce,
I'm at work so don't have access to my records, but that sounds very
much like my experience last year of a Yellow-tufted Honeyeater that hung
around for about three weeks (though without the White-plumes). It was the
first time I had recorded YTHE at my Kambah GBS site in 14 years. Haven't seen
one (yet?) this year, but there are a couple, possibly three, White-plumes
hanging around for the past three weeks.
And this morning I had a fully-intermediate Crimson/Eastern Rosella
hybrid in the garden.
Harvey Perkins
CRC
Strategy and Communication Section
_______________________________________
Department
of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research
From: Esme
Barker and Bruce Ramsay [
Sent: Friday, 15 May 2009 10:37 AM
To: Canberrabirds
Subject: [canberrabirds] Yellow-tufted Honeyeater in Gordon
After
an absence since Thursday of last week, a Yellow-tufted Honeyeater is back
in my GBS site this morning. It was together with 9 White-plumed
Honeyeaters, as was the bird which was here last Thursday.
That's
3 consecutive GBS weeks that the species has been here - which from looking
through my ABR's, seems to be a pretty unusual recording occurrence.
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