World Big Day

[Ryu Callaway <>]

Sorry Martin to finish off my evening bike ride around some of Tuggeranong's ponds I counted the starlings as they arrived to roost in the reeds at point hut pond, and your 280 Starlings is nothing in comparison - approximately​ just over 3200 starlings gathered from the paddocks extending out towards Tidbinbilla. They came in several flocks over about 7 minutes from sunset, with the 2 largest flocks probably about 250m wide on the front and extending 25m back.  

Just haven't got around to entering yesterday's birds yet because I spent over an hour counting the gulls from the photos of what I presumed to be a roost flight which I posted about a few days ago. Sunday's flock was 156 and Monday's flock was a whopping 614.

Ryu


--- Martin Butterfield <m("gmail.com","martinflab");" href="" target="_self">> wrote:
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> For my contribution to the eBird Big Day I toured The Plain yesterday afternoon, recordng 31 species.   Looking at the world wide results I find that the flock of 280 Common Starlings I observed browsing among cattle near Mills Cross and the record (two separate flocks) of 264 Little Ravens feeding in recently cultivated land North of Briars-Sharrow Rd are both World High Counts.  
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> There is of course still time left in the day for a New World flock of starlings to beat the count for that species, but being Spring in the North the birds are less likely to flock up.
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> Martin Butterfield
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