Thank Martin and Philip (it’s David, BTW),
It will be interesting to see whether this presages a ‘good’
summer or a torrid one...
regards
David
From: martin butterfield
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Sent: Thursday, 11 August 2011 11:55 AM
To: Andrew, David
Cc:
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Crested Pigeon fledging [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
Cutting to the chase, the GBS narrative indicates that this is, as
David suggests, an early record for a newly fledged Crested Pigeon.
Over 29 years the GBS has 989 Breeding records for Crested
Pigeon. Of these 387 (39%) are Display and occur in 51 weeks, with
a peak from mid July to mid October. Nest Building accounts
for 107 (10.8%) records with a faint peak from early August to early
October. There are 270 (27.3%) On Nest records clumped from
mid-August to end October. As for all species there are very
few (48 – 4.9% - in total) Nest with Eggs or Young records. The Nest
with Young records occur from late August to late October. Dependent
Young were recorded 128 (12.9%) times with a rather
‘flat’ distribution from early September through to early
February. So the tale hangs together rather well.
Martin
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Andrew, David <>
wrote:
On Monday afternoon (8 Aug) I rescued a
newly fledged Crested Pigeon from choughs outside my house in Hackett. Given
that we are still in the depths of winter would this be an early breeding
record?
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