White-winged Choughs in the suburbs

[Duncan McCaskill <>]

White-winged Choughs are commonly reported in the Garden Bird Survey. Last year (2011/12) they were reported by nearly 50% of sites - 100% of rural sites and 45% of suburban sites. The rate for non-rural sites has jumped around a bit in the last 10 years from 33% to 67%

[I don't (yet) have a more detailed classification of suburban sites to distinguish sites near green corridors from those that aren't. One of these days I'll spend some time on Google Earth trying to do that.]

Duncan McCaskill

GBS Coordinator

On 5 March 2013 17:48, Jenny Bounds <> wrote:

This afternoon, to my surprise, there were 6 Choughs in the street outside my Weston house, foraging on crushed acorns (from several Oak trees planted on neighbours nature strips).  There were a couple of young birds in the group.  This is the first time Ive recorded Choughs in my GBS for 10 years (last in winter 2002).  Later I saw a couple of them moving east from tree to tree towards the green strip between Oakey Hill and and Mt Taylor (about 350 metres away).   Has anyone had Choughs foraging similarly in their suburb away from the green strips?