Re: FW: [canberrabirds] Birds of the ACT - Two centuries of change A question

[Martin Butterfield <>]

Banded Lapwing is very interesting in my Carwoola context.  

A short while after moving here i became involved with the Atlas of NSW Wildlife which had a record of Banded Lapwing on the shores of the Mighty Molonglo on the Western Hoskinstown Plain.  

I poo-poohed that idea as no-one I knew had seen them anywhere near there.  About 2 years later a friend reported them in a lucerne crop possibly 3km from the Molonglo site in the centre of the Plain.  Before the lucerne got higher than the birds we counted 45 at one time.  

Then they disappeared before reappearing (up to about 17 from memory) on the Eastern side of the Plain where they were seen over a couple of years before vanishing again.

Last year 4 turned up on the Eastern side of the Plain and bred, raising 2 chicks to fledging.  They have been sighted regularly all this year.

I think I would put their status here as "Regular Visitor".  

For the ACT which is the ambit of the tome in question (at least 7 km away as the Lapwing flies) "Rare, breeding visitor" seems to be appropriate.

Martin Butterfield

http://franmart.blogspot.com.au/

On 20 August 2018 at 16:17, Geoffrey Dabb <> wrote:

Yes, among the local increasers the Superb Parrot has certainly graduated from ‘rare visitor’, and the Koel from ‘rare non-breeding migrant’.  ‘An uncommon species’ no longer accurately describes the very numerous Little Corella.  ‘Non-breeding’ to ‘breeding’ might just be a matter of a recent nest record, but the nesting  Silver Gulls on LBG have made a dramatic entry into the ‘breeding’ category. The idea of a ‘non-breeding resident’ does seem to leave an unanswered question.    To take up Philip’s point it is a philosophical issue whether ‘rare to abundant’ is a more significant change than ‘never recorded to now recorded ’ (eg Long-toed Stint’,  White-cheeked Honeyeater, Tawny Grassbird) or ‘locally extinct to not-extinct (rare visitor)’ (eg Banded Lapwing’).   

 

From: Philip Veerman <>
Sent: Sunday, 19 August 2018 3:35 PM
To: 'Geoffrey Dabb' <>
Subject: RE: [canberrabirds] Birds of the ACT - Two centuries of change A question

 

Don’t forget the Canary (mentioned as only one record).

 

From: Geoffrey Dabb [m("iinet.net.au","gdabb");" target="_blank">]
Sent: Sunday, 19 August, 2018 11:59 AM
To: m("canberrabirds.org.au","canberrabirds");" target="_blank">org.au
Subject: FW: [canberrabirds] Birds of the ACT - Two centuries of change A question

 

The cut-off date for this invaluable publication was more than 20 years ago.   Having regard to reports since then, which bird species has a local occurrence that differs most markedly from the assessment by Steve Wilson in 1999?  (There are several candidates.)

 

From: John Layton <m("bigpond.com","johnlayton2");" target="_blank">>
Sent: Sunday, 19 August 2018 11:18 AM
To: Canberra birds <m("canberrabirds.org.au","canberrabirds");" target="_blank">org.au>
Subject: [canberrabirds] Birds of the ACT - Two centuries of change

 

Thank you to those who offered me a copy of the above book. This morning I walked into a used book store in beautiful downtown Fyshwick and there was one priced at just $4:50 so Johnny went grab and left – after paying for it.

 

And on the way home, 12 Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoos rowing along Southern Cross Drive, Scullin at lamp-standard height.

 

John Layton

Holt.