Uses of Bird Photography, revisited #5 [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[Martin Butterfield <>]

Many thanks Harvey.  Gulf St Vincent is still pretty wide at Glenelg so can be regarded as marine, but the breakwater there is almost the only rocky bit that far up (the breakwaters at Outer Harbour (about 20km further) would I suspect be the last but am not game to go there, having said bad things about John Cahill, Russel Ebert and Graeme Cornes in the past.  

On 25 October 2013 15:00, Perkins, Harvey <> wrote:

Hi Martin

My understanding is that Black-faced Cormorants are essentially strictly marine, and more specifically have a strong preference for isolated or offshore rocks.

Werribee would not be suitable for them on these grounds.

Having said that, BFCs will stretch themselves and this assumption to some extent, and will come into more sheltered areas closer to human settlement, such as the harbour at Eden, the Derwent around Hobart, etc. etc. etc.

Harvey

 

From: Martin Butterfield [
Sent: Friday, 25 October 2013 2:37 PM
To: Geoffrey Dabb
Cc: COG List
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Uses of Bird Photography, revisited #5

 

You are correct Geoffrey: it was 5 species that I reported .  The one missing here is Black-faced: I wonder why: they are common enough at Eden and Glenelg.

 

Martin

 

On 25 October 2013 09:38, Geoffrey Dabb <> wrote:

#5  -  to record notable juxtapositions

 

The scene is the beach at Werribee looking across to the Bellarine Peninsular.  4 species of cormorants, with a surfeit of Pieds, are sitting on a ruined structure.  I recall some years ago Martin Butterfield reported – was it 5 species of cormorants? -  on a beach in South Australia (Glenelg?)  The archive does not allow easy retrieval of that report, but I did discover that Martin has had a long and wide association with cormorants.

 

In any event, this is the totality of cormorant species you are likely to find in the bay

 

 

 

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