Woodswallows at New Line Paddock

[Denis Wilson <>]

It seems to me that Dusky Woodswallow nests are easily found, (often low down) and also, historically, they have been the main Woodswallow species in Canberra. WB and Masked are more-or-less vagrants (or have been until recent upsurge of "inland species" coming to Canberra.) That comment is meant to include Superb Parrots, etc.

I am not surprised at the large number of Dusky nests reported (if that was the point upon which Martin was commenting).

Denis Wilson

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On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Martin Butterfield <> wrote:

Steve

Can you separate the breeding records into the nest found records (combination of ON, NE, NY) and others?  The proportion of breeding records seems notably higher than average for these species. 

Martin

On 10 November 2013 17:04, Wallaces <> wrote:

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%

 

 

 

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