Rose Robins

[Martin Butterfield <>]

An interesting aspect of the Rose Robin is that at Mallacoota Vic. it is present year round as shown by this snip of the eBird Bar Charts covering from Gypsy Point to the Ocean. (Each vertical bar is effectively a week.) 

​I suspect the absence in May - June is an absence of observers as much as absence of birds, possibly allied to the birds being silent then - most of my observations of the species in that area are heard calling from dense undergrowth,.  

Martin

Martin Butterfield

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On 6 September 2015 at 13:30, Ian Baird <> wrote:

Fits in with the Rose Robin being an altitudinal migrant, like the Scarlet Robin. It breeds in forest at altitude, avoids the cold in the 3 months of winter by migrating to lower altitude. That probably explains the 3 months difference, its coming and going. 

Ian Baird

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On 5 Sep 2015, at 8:20 pm, Wayne Gregson <> wrote:

I have been reading with interest the reports coming in the last few days of numbers of Rose Robins in the Canberra area 9 (and failed to find the one at Jerrabomberra wetlands this afternoon!)

 

I recalled one day a couple of years ago when our semi-regular drive along Lake Rd near Bungendore yielded quite a number of Rose Robins both male and female at the bottom (eastern edge) of the lake George escarpment.  I have just checked back expecting that this event was around August/September only to discover that it was the 4th June 2013.  (My records also show this was the only occasion I have seen Rose Robins on Lake Rd.)  So it would seem that this species might  move in numbers at the same time – but if they move back through the Canberra area in numbers why the 3 month difference between 2013 and this year?