Do any COG members live in the areas where Superbs have been recorded who
would be willing to operate a myna trap to reduce the competition they pose
to the Superbs?
Peter
-----Original Message-----
From: Daryl King
Sent: Saturday, 2 August 2014 7:08 PM
To:
Subject: 30 superbs at the mosque
Some good news: Despite successive waves of irresponsible clearing,
northern Belconnen (including the area covered by Fraser) still contains
quite a few hollow-bearing remnant eucs - mostly in a band above the 600
metre contour (see attached (incomplete) map). Superb Parrots have
inspected hollows throughout the area in each of the past three breeding
seasons.
Some bad news: 1/3 to 2/3 of hollow trees in northern Belconnen are
occupied by Common Mynas each year. In those circumstances, it is highly
unlikely that Superb Parrots will re-establish a breeding population there.
Daryl
On 2/08/2014 1:20 PM, Mark Clayton wrote:
> In the late 1960's, early 1970's Superb Parrots were a common species
> in the area that is now covered by the suburb of Fraser. I used to
> know people who owned a property there and Superb Parrots commonly
> bred in some huge old Yellow Box trees. There was also what was
> probably Canberra's last colony of Grey-crowned Babblers present on
> site. The parrots then appeared to die out for quite a while and it is
> only in the last decade that they appear to have made a comeback to
> the northern part of the ACT. How long they will stay remains to be
> seen as they do tend to follow food resources around. The breaking of
> the drought has probably had quite a bit to do with the birds return.
> On the other hand the ACT Government has done nothing to help them
>
> by clearing large areas of suitable habitat for housing. From memory,
> someone once said that of the 95 mature Yellow Box and Red Gums in the
> now
>
> suburb of Crace, 80 were removed for housing. Several years ago I
> travelled along the road that borders Mulligan's Flat NR and was
> horrified to see that every tree up to the reserves' boundary had been
> flattened. As I pointed out to Chris Davey at the time he was doing
> surveys to record breeding sites for the parrots, it is a totally
> useless exercise to find nests if all their food trees are being
> knocked over. This is what is happening with Regent Parrots along the
> Murray River. They breed in the River Red Gums and feed in the mallee
> which is still being cleared for agriculture. They are having to move
further and further to find feeding sites.
>
> I will be interested to see what happens with the Superb Parrots as
> Canberra continues to move into critical habitat in the newer
> Gungahlin suburbs. The ACT Government plans for so-called "offsets" is
> a farce and so is their so-called "solar orientation "policy which is
> one of the reasons the trees
>
> in Crace were removed. All the old Eucalypts near the Gungahlin Town
> centre will be dead within the next 50 years and nothing appears to
> have been done to start potentially replacing them. As soon a building
> goes up near them they will be removed as potential hazards.
>
> The older I get the more cynical I become about governments and their
> "environmental" policies. I don't think any of them really have a clue!
>
> Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Harris
> Sent: Saturday, 2 August 2014 12:18 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] 30 superbs at the mosque
>
>
>
> It¹s gratifying to see the Superbs becoming more visible in Gungahlin.
> They have been nesting here in Mulligans Flat for years but were rare
> in Gungahlin suburbia until the last couple of years and now quite
> large flocks this year. They visit Percival Hill now in numbers and I
> put it down to the maturing of the trees planted by landcare folk in
> the late 1990s which are
>
> now virtually a mature woodland environment.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 2/08/2014 11:57 am, "Peter Ormay" <> wrote:
>
>> Hello Chris
>>
>> Yesterday 1-8-14 I watched about a maximum of 30 Superbs near the 3
>> large Yellow Box trees E mell. at the South end of Kate Crace St from
>> 9.20am to 10.30am feeding on the ground mainly in native dominated
>> vegetation in strong cold west wind. I could not see what they were
>> feeding on due to the height of the grass.
>>
>> It included a female-looking bird with yellow flecks on its back.
>>
>> The numbers fluctuated as flocks of 8 to 15 SPs flew off South and NE
>> but seemed to return. They seemed skittish while on the ground,
>> possibly due to the strong wind, flying up into the adjacent Yellow
>> Boxes at any disturbance such as a Wood Duck nesting in the Eastern
>> Yellow Box flying over them but they soon came down again.
>>
>> They were feeding mainly between the northern fence (with plain
>> wires) and the inner (with 2 barbed and 3 smooth wires) fence. They
>> also fed south of the inner fence but all within 20m of the Yellow
>> Boxes
>>
>> Peter Ormay
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bill & Raelene
>> Sent: Sunday, 20 July 2014 12:22 PM
>> To:
>> Subject: [canberrabirds] 30 superbs at the mosque
>>
>> Gungahlin Town Centre survey with Angela Plant today. 30 Superbs
>> 0910-0930 in large eucs beside mosque site , sth end Kate Crace St.
>> Feeding on the ground, noisy, hanging about, roosting site? Low
>> morning sun gives them a startling, flouro green glow. Total 21 species.
>> Bill Graham
>>
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