Question about Golden Whistlers

[Jack & Andrea Holland <>]

Michael, I’ve had very few Golden Whistlers of any kind in my local patch

from the start of the 2017-2018 year, with only the single bird last autumn/spring and only recorded in 5 GBS weeks this autumn/winter so far.  In my surveys of Cooleman Ridge and Narrabundah Hill this year I’ve only managed a single bird at each.  There were none recorded on the Narrabundah Hill COG walk I led on 31 March.

 

However, based on the eBird map there seems to be quite a few recorded elsewhere this year .  This underlines the conclusions I often reach after reading each year’s Annual Bird Report, ie the bird species I see locally don’t necessarily reflect those seen by other observers in other parts of the ACT.

 

Regards

 

Jack Holland

 

From: Michael Lenz

Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2018 12:16 PM

To: chatline

Subject: [canberrabirds] Question about Golden Whistlers

 

This autumn/winter I have hardly seen a juvenile Golden Whistler, most birds were ad. females and males.

 

I have no doubt that other observers will have seen juveniles. My question is whether juveniles are present this season in smaller numbers than, for example in the previous year ??

If this were the case it would indicate that the species had a poor 2017/18 breeding season.

 

Michael Lenz