Again as always it comes down to what exactly does “common” mean, we do not have any word between common and rare, only modifiers like fairly and rather. They
are easily overlooked. It is usually when they are settled in groups that they become obvious for their chattering call. Jack H covered this all in his COG talk last month. For years 3 houses within my GBS area had a row of small eucalypts that were major
magnets for this species and in winter there were many of them for my GBS. By unfortunate coincidence or because these trees are difficult to have in the garden these were all removed so I only get the species in passing now.......
Philip
From: Julie Clark [
Sent: Friday, 12 June 2015 3:48 PM
To: COG Chatline
Subject: [canberrabirds] Fuscous Honeyeater
I saw only my second ever Fuscous Honeyeater yesterday at Mount Rogers (previous one 2 years ago in Harrison).
I note that on the COG website it says that they are a
Common breeding species.
If that is the case, where should I be going to see them? Am I just not very observant and missing them amongst all the yellow-faced honeyeaters or are they in fact not so common
anymore?
Any information would be appreciated.
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