Some information on woodswallow breeding from the COG database.
Steve
| Number of sighting only records | Number of breeding records | Total number of records | Percent breeding records | Number of years with records | Number of years with breeding records | Number of years with breeding records as percent of years with records |
Species | | | | | | | |
Dusky Woodswallow | 5336 | 629 | 5965 | 11% | 32 | 31 | 97% |
Masked Woodswallow | 140 | 3 | 143 | 2% | 22 | 3 | 14% |
White-browed Woodswallow | 414 | 89 | 503 | 18% | 28 | 13 | 46% |
-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Veerman [
Sent: Sunday, 10 November 2013 12:20 PM
To: 'Kevin and Gwenyth Bray';
Subject: [canberrabirds] Woodswallows at New Line Paddock
Sean Dooley is I believe also an occasional writer of comedy for various TV shows.
Dusky Woodswallows are a regular breeder in our area. White-browed Woodswallows are a occasional breeder in our area. Masked Woodswallows probably even less.
Philip
-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin and Gwenyth Bray [m("grapevine.com.au","kevingwenyth");">]
Sent: Saturday, 9 November 2013 11:10 PM
To: m("canberrabirds.org.au","canberrabirds");">
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Woodswallows at New Line Paddock
We visited our son on his property "Highfield" in the Mt Adrah area just off
the Snowy Mts Highway a few km east of the Hume Highway on Friday, where we
took these photos of a dusky woodswallow with young in a crevice in a fence
post.
Main reason for going was to join a group checking out birds that morning
under the guidance of Sean Dooley, managing editor of Australian Birdlife.
The property (mostly box woodland) is largely under a conservation trust
covenant, with a large number of birds having been recorded. Sean was a
terrific guide, instantly recognising myriad bird calls and helping us find
and see nearly all the birds. He had been guest speaker at a Landcare
dinner in Tumut the previous evening, where he entertained us with a
humourous account of his having spent a year successfully breaking the then
record number of different bird species seen in Australia (including island
territories) by the one observer in a year. (We didn't write down the
number he found, but it was, we think, just over 700 - which has since been
increased by someone else). He has written an account of this in "The Big
Twitch". We can highly recommend him as a speaker and as a guide on any
kind of birding excursion.
Gwenyth and Kevin Bray
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