Thanks to all for your comments on our
mystery Robin. We now feel fairly confident that it was indeed a Pink
Robin. After a successful first foray into posting on the list we are
emboldened to post again into the future.
Kim and Geoff
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From: Marnix Zwankhuizen
[
Sent: Thursday,
24 March 2011 3:52
PM
To: Geoff Larmour; 'martin
butterfield'; 'COG List'
Subject: RE: [canberrabirds]
Red-browed treecreepers and Rose Robin [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
UNCLASSIFIED
Hello
Geoff
I
recorded a male Pink Robin in Tallaganda on Sunday 2 October 2005. It was in a
gully along South Forest Way not far from White Ash Rd.
My
original posting to this list can be found by searching the canberrabirds
archives.
http://bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au/archives/html/canberrabirds/2005-10/msg00010.html
Cheers
Marnix
UNCLASSIFIED
From:
Geoff Larmour [
Sent: Thursday, 24 March 2011 1:18
PM
To: 'martin butterfield'; 'COG
List'
Subject: RE: [canberrabirds]
Red-browed treecreepers and Rose Robin
Hello
Martin
We haven’t
contributed to the list before, having only recently subscribed - though we
read the postings most days. We visit the eastern part of Tallanganda
State Forest and National Park regularly (our lists are up on Eremaea for those
interested). Your posting about Rose Robin and Red-browed Treecreeper
makes us realise we have been remiss in not visiting the western part of
Tallaganda !
It would
be great to have the list’s thoughts on a Robin species we have been
seeing regularly this summer in the eastern part of Tallaganda. We have
tentatively identified it as immature Pink Robin. Have you or others seen
Pink Robins at Tallanganda or elsewhere in the region? There is one
recent record on Eremaea for Pink Robin at Monga National Park, which is not
very far from Tallanganda as the crow (or robin) flies, but the Atlas does not
list Pink Robin for this region over its breeding season. The bird we
have been seeing is a “brown” bird with tan wing bars (definitely
not buff or white bars). We have seen it on Rocky Pic Road regularly
– though not in the past few weeks. It feeds from the ground and is
consistently above 1000 metres elevation. For info, we also regularly see
Scarlet and Flame Robins at Tallaganda. The Flame Robin brown birds have
buff or creamy wingbars – and so look rather different to our mystery
bird. BTW, the Flame Robins are out in force at present – including
three coloured males and half a dozen brown birds queueing up to bathe in a
tiny puddle on Rocky Pic Road yesterday afternoon. Very lovely.
Kim and
Geoff Larmour
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Message-----
From: martin butterfield
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Sent: Wednesday, 23 March 2011
3:15 PM
To: COG List
Subject: [canberrabirds]
Red-browed treecreepers and Rose Robin
While out in Lowden
Forest Park on a planning foray for an outing during the BA Campout Chris Davey
and I each saw 2 Red-browed tree-creepers and I am confident they were
different birds. I also logged a Rose Robin.
Martin
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