canberrabirds

Re: Fuscous Honeyeater

To: COG Chatline <>
Subject: Re: Fuscous Honeyeater
From: Julie Clark <>
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 08:20:52 +0000
Thanks to everyone who responded to my email regarding the Fuscous Honeyeater. It was an informative and fascinating exercise!

Many people gave me valuable suggestions as to where I might find them and others provided me with ​extra information and data regarding the species.


I followed up on Duncan McCaskill's information (via Jack Holland ... many thanks Jack & Duncan!) that there were many on Percival Hill.

After what looked like being a non-productive walk as far as the Fuscous was concerned, I finally found many birds  bathing (for some it was more like dive-bombing!!) late in the afternoon and a fair number of them were fuscous and white-naped honeyeaters

I was quite a distance away, but did manage some very ordinary photos. (one attached of a fuscous & white naped...)


Next I will follow up on some of the other suggested locations.


Thanks to all.

Cheers
Julie





On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Julie Clark <> wrote:
Hi All,

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.

Cheers
Julie


--
Julie Clark
 



--
Julie Clark
 
<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>
Admin

The University of NSW School of Computer and Engineering takes no responsibility for the contents of this archive. It is purely a compilation of material sent by many people to the Canberra Ornithologists Group mailing list. It has not been checked for accuracy nor its content verified in any way. If you wish to get material removed from the archive or have other queries about the list contact David McDonald, list manager, phone (02) 6231 8904 or email . If you can not contact David McDonald e-mail Andrew Taylor at this address: andrewt@cse.unsw.EDU.AU