Request to See Birds in the Canberra area

["Jack & Andrea Holland" <>]

Hello subscribers,

 

I have received the following request from a WA birder who is keen to find some new species while he stays in Canberra visiting family after the after he attends the Ecological Society of Australia conference in Canberra from 6-10 December.  

 

While I have been able to give him some general information there may be one or two amongst you who would have the time to accompany him on a trip to the Brindabellas, in particular to help him see the Rose Robin, Pilotbird and Spotted Quail-thrush which are his top priorities (and I might add are difficult to give locations for, except perhaps the walking trails at Tidbinbilla for the first two). 

 

Could you please reply direct to Pieter rather than through me. 

 

Many thanks

 

Jack Holland 

 

 

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From: Pieter Poot [
Sent: Monday, 8 November 2010 1:01 AM
To: Holland, Jack
Subject: birds in Canberra area

Hi Jack,

 

I found your email in the interesting gang-gang newsletters on the Canberra birds website. I?m a plant conservation biologist in WA and I will be attending the Ecological Society of Australia conference in Canberra early December. After the conference I will stay in Canberra for some 3 weeks as my parents in law live there and we are bringing their first (8 month old) grandchild with us. As I am also a keen birdwatcher I?m hoping to get a little bit of time to do some bushwalking and bird watching (which I have mainly been deprived from since the birth of my son!). I?ve been in Canberra before but only visited the botanical garden and had a day in Tidbinbilla. Although I saw quite a few new species there were also many others I hoped for that I didn?t see. It would be great if you could give me some advice on some species that I would love to see such as:

 

Speckled Warbler, Pilotbird, Brown + Red-browed Treecreeper, Leaden + Satin Flycatcher, White-Browed Wood Swallow, Spotted Quail Thrush, Rose and Flame Robin, Fuscous and Yellow-Tufted Honeyeater, Superb Parrot, Little Lorikeet, Olive Whistler, Chestnut-Rumped Heathwren, Dollarbird, White Throated Gerygone,

 

All of these I haven?t seen before and any info on any of them would be great!

 

We may get the opportunity to leave my son for a couple of days with his grandparents in which case we will visit the Thredbo area. Would you know of locations around there where I may have a bigger chance to see any of the above species?

 

I also wanted to have one go at more inland species and from the web and some bird books thought that Weddin Mountains NP would be a good choice (with overnight stay in Grenfell). Do you know this area? I was hoping to have a good chance of seeing species like: Turquoise Parrot, Blue Bonnet, Apostlebird, Gilbert?s Whistler, Painted, Black-Chinned and Striped Honeyeater, Masked Woodswallow, Plum-Headed Finch.

 

Please don?t feel obliged; any info would be most welcome!

 

Cheers,

 

Pieter

 

       

 

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Dr Pieter Poot

Assistant Professor in Plant Conservation Biology &

Researcher for the Dept of Env. and Conservation

School of Plant Biology

Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences

University of Western Australia

35 Stirling Highway

Crawley, WA 6009

Phone: +61 8 6488 2491       Fax: +61 8 6488 1108

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