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Painted Honeyeaters at Stoney Creek Nature Reserve

To: "Wallaces" <>, "Canberra birds" <>
Subject: Painted Honeyeaters at Stoney Creek Nature Reserve
From: "Jack & Andrea Holland" <>
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 20:37:05 +1100
Steve, very interesting to see them in Casuarina!  You might be aware of the (former?) sign at Uriarra Crossing and the story in Birds of the High Country how in the early (post war) days they seemed to return to the Murrumbidgee River to breed every year.   This story is also included in a bit more detail in Steve Wilson’s book Birds of the ACT Two Centuries of Change.  From there it seems the last bird seen at Casuarina Sands was in 1971 and as far as I’m aware all other ACT records have been of birds away from the M River and I suspect in gums.
 
It’s interesting to speculate whether they have been overlooked because they’ve been in the less accessible parts of the River (I’ve had trouble finding the exact location of Stoney Creek Nature Reserve), whether they’re resuming past habits, or were simply passing through escaping from the very dry inland as so many other species seem to be at the moment.
 
Jack Holland
 
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Subject: [canberrabirds] Painted Honeyeaters at Stoney Creek Nature Reserve
 

While watching a flock of Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos at Stoney Creek Nature Reserve this morning, two Painted Honeyeaters landed nearby.  They came and went three times before heading off towards the east.

 

The table below (ACT records only) shows a summary of the ACT records from the COG database.

 

Steve

 

ACT only

Number of records

Year end 30 June

Grid cell

2003

2004

2006

2007

2009

Grand Total

G17

1

1

J11

5

5

J15

1

1

J16

1

1

J23

1

1

K13

1

1

L11

2

2

M10

1

1

M11

3

1

4

M12

1

1

M13

12

1

13

N13

1

1

Grand Total

26

2

1

2

1

32

 


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