Yellow-plumed Honeyeater at Hall

[Martin Butterfield <>]

Mark's message stirred me to try to have a look at the banding records for the species.  For reasons that bewilder me I've never done this before.  The information available on the ABBBS site is most interesting.  The furthest distance recorded (from 1162 recoveries) was 94km.  To my surprise Google Earth reveals it is only 124km, as the honeyeater might fly, from Mates Gully to the Hall TSR.

Martin

Martin Butterfield

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On 7 June 2018 at 21:11, Mark Clayton <> wrote:

Having lived in Canberra most of my life and started birding at a very early age, and with the influence of Steve Wilson and many others over the years, I think I can pretty categorically say that this record IS the first for the ACT. I never heard anyone mention the Yellow-plumed (or Mallee) Honeyeater as occurring within a bull's roar of Canberra. It would have been written up in the original, and subsequent, editions of Birds in the Australian High Country plus Steve Wilson's most informative book.

As an aside, the species has pretty well dropped out of The Charcoal Tank Nature Reserve over the last couple of years. It was regular, especially over summer coming in to water.

Mark

On 7/06/2018 8:20 PM, Barbara Allan wrote:

The COG Rarities Panel (from 1984 onwards) has not had a record of a Yellow-plumed HE presented to it. b

 

From: Steve Holliday [m("iinet.net.au","pruesteve");" target="_blank">]
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Subject: [canberrabirds] Yellow-plumed Honeyeater at Hall

 

Prue and I met Alastair Smith at the Hall TSR this morning to look for the Yellow-plumed Honeyeaters belatedly reported on Birdline yesterday. After two hours in the TSR, on both sides of the border, we had seen a lot of honeyeaters but no Yellow-plumes.

 

We then crossed to the eastern side of the highway to the patch of woodland opposite the TSR, north of the rest area at the end of Victoria St. Prue and I eventually located a Yellow-plume with lots of other honeyeaters and pardalotes. We had it in view long enough for Prue to get a few photos before a White-plume chased it off. Good that at least one bird has been around for at least a week, hopefully more people can connect with them.

 

See ebird report for a couple of Prue’s photos https://ebird.org/australia/view/checklist/S46361323

 

 

Cheers

 

Steve

 

 

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