dead White-naped Honeyeater in Woden

["Philip Veerman" <>]

Of course many birds migrate at night. I suspect not these ones though (or not mainly), mostly due to that we know they migrate during the daytime. I'd think most species would so one or other.

 

There is an huge number of reasons why any bird might die and be found dead. It could be John's suggestion, (in daytime equally), it could be that the bird died of old age or starvation or whatever.

 

Philip

 

 

 From: martin butterfield [
Sent: Saturday, 9 October 2010 12:59 PM
To:
Cc: Canberra Birds
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] dead White-naped Honeyeater in Woden

I am not totally familiar with which Woden
suburbs are classified as bottom or slope but the attached query from the GBS
database shows that most of the White-naped Honeyeaters reported in the Survey
come in the Autumn or (to a lesser extent) Spring migration periods.  
While adjusting for the number of observer weeks might make marginal changes I
don't  think it would make any significant difference to the overall
pattern (and does involve a bit of fiddling about).

Martin

On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 12:18 PM, <> wrote:

Found a dead WNHe on the pavement outside one of the Health buildings in northern Woden yesterday. I'm thinking it may have been migrating by night and hit a lit window in the building.

The reason I think this is that I've never seen a WNHe anywhere in the Woden valley bottom (we get them occasionally in Hughes and on Red Hill). I suspect they may only cross the valley to migrate.

John Leonard