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heathwrens

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Subject: heathwrens
From: "Geoffrey Dabb" <>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:35:41 +1000

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 .

Sandra Henderson

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