Adam
In terms of recent events, I understand that because of our terrible
drought, waterbird counts in the Murray Darling Basin are at around 1%
of their long-term average. I do not have a citation for the waterbird
counts, sorry. Any raptores in the MDB that dine on waterfowl would had
to have gone onto some other diet, or to have had a substantial
reduction in numbers over the last decade. If you go on the MDB
Authority site and check out their weekly report you will find graphs
for inflows for this year, last year, the average for the last ten
years, and for the long-term average. While this year is better than
last year, it is still looking parlous.
regards
Con
The ACT is part of this Bruce Lindenmayer wrote:
Speculative, for sure, but we have big populations in the Canberra
area of Pied Currawongs and Australian Magpies which together with
Australian Ravens probably occupy some niches that raptores do in
other environments. Currawongs in particular, are now rather more
common in urban areas generally, than in surrounding bushland.
Bruce
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