Pilotbird breeding records?

["Philip Veerman" <>]

Pilotbirds are residents so surely they must breed here. The COG Atlas (now very old) has a mention of one nest building from 1988. Presumably they are hard to find breeding. I'm intrigued about "FYI, brood patches were also found on: Shining Bronze-Cuckoo". Do brood parasites also form this? I would have thought this feature would have been deleted over time.

 

Philip

 

-----Original Message-----From: John Brown [ Sent: Wednesday, 30 October 2013 4:59 PM      To: COG_Mailing_List       Subject: [canberrabirds] Pilotbird breeding records?

 

At New Chum Road mist netting which happened to coincide with the Blitz, we netted a pilotbird with a brood patch. There was some speculation about whether or not there were records of pilotbirds breeding in the ACT?

 

FYI, brood patches were also found on:

 

Shining Bronze-cuckoo

White-browed Scrubwren

Brown Thornbill

Striated Thornnbill

Eastern Spinebill

Yellow-faced Honeyeater

Crescent Honeyeater

White-napped Honeyeater

Golden Whistler

Eastern Yellow Robin

Bassian Thrush

 

John