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Brown Treecreepers in the ACT

To: 'John Leonard' <>, "" <>
Subject: Brown Treecreepers in the ACT
From: Philip Veerman <>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 03:24:45 +0000

Are you restricting your interest to north side of ACT? Over many years they are regular in small numbers (probably not more than about 5) at Castle Hill (maybe that is private property) also some other places around Tharwa Sandwash, Angle Crossing, etc but that is the only places I see them. I don’t go into north Canberra much.

 

Philip

 

From: John Leonard [
Sent: Monday, 26 October 2015 1:29 PM
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Subject: [canberrabirds] Brown Treecreepers in the ACT

 

 

I’m getting despondent about the status of Brown treecreepers in the ACT.

 

In the COG Atlas (published 1992) it notes the populations of Brown Treecreepers in Campbell Park and Mulligan’s Flat.

 

I arrived in the ACT 1994 and by then, or shortly afterwards, both these populations had vanished (as had the Hooded Robins in Campbell Park, also noted by the Atlas.)

 

I used to observe Brown Treecreepers in the New Line Quarry Paddock, but I have not seen them since 2010. When Kama Nature Reserve was opened I observed the Brown Treecreepers there in  around 2012, but have not seem them since then.

 

They were always present in Hall TSR, but they seemed to have disappeared from there too (since 2013).

 

Are there in fact any Brown Treecreepers in the ACT in nature reserves (ie not on private property)?

 

John Leonard

 

 

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