Red-browed Treecreeper

[John Leonard <>]

I'm pleased that the initial RTBC continues to persist in the Gardens, and it is now a pair!

Previously I had only ever seen RBTCs in mountain forests (Tidbinbilla, Warks Road, Monga NR &c) and had assumed they had poor dispersal abilities. Obviously these ANBG birds have found a little patch of ideal (albeit artifical) habitat, but it must be least 50kms as the Treecreeper flies to the nearest suitable habitat to the Gardens, so their dispersal abilities are obviously not that bad.

The other interesting thing is that after I and others first saw the male, he was joined by a female. Presumably she was there all along, but still, a pair dispersing together? Isn't that unusual?

Has anyone else ever seen a RBTC away from its preferred habitat?

John Leonard

On 25 June 2012 09:15, Julian Robinson <> wrote:

In the interests of continuity since it seems the Red-browed Treecreeper(s)
might be still around, the one I saw last Monday 18th June was feeding in
Sections 201, 200, 162 at the far north of the ANBG, before it went over
into CSIRO.  This was the same day Scott Ryan recorded one (Eremaea) in
Section 24 quite some distance away.

Julian
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-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony Overs [
Sent: Sunday, 24 June 2012 12:04
To: Canberra Birds
Subject: Brown Gerygone at ANBG this morning

Hi all

There was a single Brown Gerygone at the gardens this morning. We saw it on
the edge of the main rainforest gully, just up from the Brittle Gum Lawn. I
picked it up on call, and everyone on this morning's COG outing had a look
at it.

We also saw the male Rose Robin over near the CSIRO gate, where other folks
had seen it earlier this week. We also saw a female about 100m back towards
the visitors centre from the male.

No sign of the Red-browed Treecreeper, although we couldn't recall exactly
where others had seen it.

Cheers
Anthony



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