Rufous Fantail in Ainslie

[martin butterfield <>]

Ask and ye shall receive.  In fact, ye shall receive a chart even without asking!

The attached image shows the sum of Rufous Fantails reported each Survey week in the GBS over the 30 processed years of the Survey.  I didn't feel that the extra effort of adjusting for different effort per week would materially affect the overall shape of the chart.  The RH red triangle shows this week (ie Steve's bird) while the other is two weeks earlier representing Alison's sighting.

The ACT Bird Atlas (p122) comments that this species moves through towards breeding territories in October - November and come back starting in February.  A pretty good match to the picture given in the chart.

Martin

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Steve Holliday <> wrote:

Was chatting to Alison Rowell yesterday, she mentioned she’d seen a Rufous Fantail in Canberra very recently - I think it was at Red Hill - we both thought it was a rather odd time of year to see one here.

 

In a bizarre coincidence one has appeared in our garden this morning. Our last GBS record was March 2007, a more typical time of the year for them to appear in the city area.

 

Steve

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