canberrabirds

Rufous songlarks

To: "'Jack & Andrea Holland'" <>, <>
Subject: Rufous songlarks
From: "Steve Holliday" <>
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 14:53:33 +1100

2 males calling and displaying in the front paddock at Gooroo this morning. They weren’t there last week.

 

Cheers

Steve

 

From: Jack & Andrea Holland [
Sent: Sunday, 25 November 2012 9:13 AM
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Subject: [canberrabirds] Rufous songlarks

 

seem to have moved into my local area over the past week.

 

From just the single distant calling over the past month, a bird was performing its nuptial flight at the SW corner of the Narrabundah Hill reserve yesterday.

 

This morning a bird was doing the same on the SW side of the NW end of Cooleman Ridge, and there were at least 4 more territories being established on the lower slopes into the horse paddocks along the next km heading SE.

 

This compares with very few records over the past couple of years, and it appears to be a sign of drying conditions of the drying conditions with the birds moving into less preferred habitat, ie they are only there when it’s too dry elsewhere.

 

Jack Holland

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