Hi all,
Ross Crates is doing his PhD on the Regent Honeyeater, mostly I think, in the Capertee Valley. He is also comparing the movements of other larger honeyeater
species. To do this he is using satellite tracking as a means of following his birds, starting with Noisy Friarbirds. As can be seen from Ross’ email to me below, he is looking at catching some friarbirds locally. If anyone can provide Ross with any details
of reasonable numbers of friarbirds please let Ross know.
Please reply directly to Ross as I will be very hard to contact for the next couple of weeks or so.
Thanks,
Mark
From: Ross Crates [
Sent: Wednesday, 18 November 2015 5:10 PM
To: Mark Clayton
Subject: noisy friarbirds in the ACT
Hi Mark,
Hope you're going well. I have a favour to ask of you. I have plans to satellite track some noisy friarbirds, and I will soon need to locate some in the ACT to take into captivity for 2-3 weeks to test their ability to carry the tags. I
have licenses to do this. Do you know of anywhere in the ACT with good numbers of friarbirds at the moment?
If you could spread the word amongst the canberra birders that would be great. I assume there are some at Campbell park, but I need as many options as I can so that we can select the largest males to carry the satellite tags.
