A Visit to Victoria (4)

["Philip Veerman" <>]

Geoffrey,

 

The group monitoring them sends out a regular newsletter about the surveys and has done so for some years. As it happens the latest one arrived this morning. By my reading this, it seems you were not aware of this source of information. I maintain some sort of obscure connection with the bird "graptogyne = painted lady" by virtue of having had a small part in the official naming of the subspecies in CBN in 1988.

 

Philip

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Geoffrey Dabb [
Sent: Monday, 22 September 2014 5:00 PM
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Subject: [canberrabirds] A Visit to Victoria (4)

A main purpose of this little excursion was to find some examples of the small and dwindling population of Red-tailed Black-Cockatoos around the Vic/SA border.  In this I was completely unsuccessful. It seems that early Spring is the worst possible time, as the birds disperse to places where they are very hard to find.  A local source who regularly monitors the occasional flocks around Casterton had not seen any for some weeks.  There were reports such as ‘they are feeding on the Edenhope golf course’ which when followed up led to the news ‘oh yes, they were here about two years ago’.  A helpful source was the Natural Resources Dept at Mount Gambier which put me in touch with the regional volunteer coordinator who indicated various roads and tracks where they had been found in their flocking stage  -  say April-July.  If anyone wants to have a look for these chaps  I would strongly recommend the below booklet.  It gives information about where food trees can be found and the habits of the sub-species generally.  Anyway I now know a lot more about them.