Red-browed treecreepers and Rose Robin

[martin butterfield <>]

Geoffrey

From what I have seen recently I would be more inclined to regard the lack of records of Pink Robin in Tallaganda in the BA Atlas as indicating the lack of records submitted by those who have birded in the area (assuming people did go birding in this brilliant area) than the lack of birds (of any species).

The lat/long cited is about 1250m amsl which is quite high for this area, away from the ridge of the Brindies. So perhaps they have stayed there for Summer.  It would be interesting to know which season the banders referred to in HANZAB caught their specimens in the Brindabellas.

Martin

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Geoffrey Dabb <> wrote:

I think we need to be a little careful evaluating this –

 

-          Previous records in this area (incl in Tallaganda SF and Bot Gdns) have been in Winter

-          However there have been reports of over-summerers, even breeders, to the south eg near Thredbo, Tallaganda being well north of there however

-          There are no records in the BA atlas at the latitude of the ACT for Dec-Feb

-          From what we know of the movement of this species, which is far from complete, ‘several’ in Tallaganda in February would be ‘unusual’