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I watched the P.S. late afternoon of 15 October. at
18.10 h, when I arrived, one female was feeding in the open , moving from the
SW, to S, then along the E shore, and ended up almost in line with the new signs
by the time I left. At 18.35 h 1 male and 1 female appeared on the far side
between 2 sets of dead sticks, then moved a short distance along the
shore, feeding, and shortly after, still probing the ground, disappeared into
the grass. The birds did not come out within the next 5 min, when I
left.
Michael Lenz
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 1:22 PM
Subject: [canberrabirds] FW: Year of the
Painted-snipe
4 (at least). It?s
possible the male hasn?t been in view since 5 Oct - unless someone has a
definite ID since then.
From: Jeff
Davies [
Sent: Tuesday, 18 October 2011
12:50 PM
To: 'Geoffrey Dabb'
Cc: Danny
Rogers
Subject: RE: Year of the
Painted-snipe
G?day
Geoffrey,
B2 is a definite
female so you have four birds based on the images below, they all look adult to
me.
This species seems to
be popping up all over the place, just goes to prove the contributing factor to
their threatened status is simply lack of wet habitat inland which is overcome
to some degree in a year of above average rainfall. Wouldn?t it be fantastic if
all the drained ephemeral wetlands of Australia could be reinstated, in many
cases a farmer with a shovel would be all that?s required.
Cheers
Jeff.
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