Interesting, Sandra, and perhaps at the very eastern limit in
NSW. Mark and Richard know much more about this, but I think they get the C-rumped
at Weddins and the Shy at Charcoal Tank. The latter is only about 60 km from
Ingalba, so perhaps the divide, if there is one, is somewhere between those
locations ie between Temora and West Wyalong. Another possibility is an
overlap with perhaps a difference in habitat preference.
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Subject: [canberrabirds] highlights recent trip to Leeton
on my regular quick trip down to Leeton over the
weekend I dropped in briefly at the Ingalba reserve near Temora (which I know
some other COG members visit occasionally). Spent only about 20 mins
there, and apart from lots of dusky woodswallows and some families of
variegated fairy wrens, highlight was a couple of chestnut-rumped heathwrens in
full voice, and got some good looks at them from only a couple of metres.
In leeton at fivebough there were dozens of black-winged stilts, red-necked
avocets, black-fronted dotterels, and the reed warblers were very active
- and saw only a single spotless crake. Sunday near Narrandera
airport a flock of around 100 cockatiels .
