Danny - As a newcomer to the ACT with a serious interest in birds you will soon find more information available about this sort of thing than you have anywhere else in Australia. Apart from eBird
that Shorty has mentioned, the COG website contains comprehensive tables showing occurrence and trends over more than 30 years. Not all reports to this chatline find their way to the database, but you can recover even those through the list archive. I am
one of the worst offenders in not putting the species name in the heading, which facilitates retrieval from the archive. I have made amends in a small way by including ‘Black Kite’ in this heading to help future searchers find this ‘thread’.
It will be a matter of debate, to be resolved by future developments, whether recent reports are due to drought conditions inland or part of a population extension, such as has occurred in southern
Victoria. Perhaps both.
From: shorty <>
Sent: Thursday, 21 March 2019 10:49 PM
To: Philip Veerman <>
Cc: Danny McCreadie <>; COG Chat <>
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Re: [eBird Alert] Australian Capital Territory Rare Bird Alert <daily>
So far this Year on eBird there have been 15 sightings at 11 locations in the A.C.T..
Maybe due to the poor conditions inland.
On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 10:36 PM Philip Veerman <> wrote:
That is a semantic issue as to what you perceive the words to mean. They are a somewhat regular summer
visitor. We get one or two records most summers maybe not all but I haven’t look up that, some years more than others. That makes them somewhat rare. Would not qualify as “really rare”, although that was not claimed. Maybe your question is to be best taken
as: “really, are they rare?” and that could be yes.
And I have deleted the bit about
Spotted Pardalote as that was accepted as a mistake.
Philip
From: Danny
McCreadie [
Sent: Thursday, 21 March, 2019 10:10 PM
To:
Subject: RE: [canberrabirds] Re: [eBird Alert] Australian Capital Territory Rare Bird Alert <daily>
Um, I am new to Canberra, but are Black Kites really rare here?
Danny
On 21/03/2019 7:29 am, calyptorhynchus wrote:
On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 at 21:27, <> wrote:
*** Species Summary:
- Pied Cormorant (1 report)
- Black Kite (1 report)
- Spotted Pardalote (Spotted) (1 report)
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NOTE: all sightings are UNCONFIRMED unless indicated
Pied Cormorant (Phalacrocorax varius) (1)
- Reported Mar 20, 2019 13:20 by Will Morris
- Lake Burley Griffin--East Basin, Australian Capital Territory
- Map:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=-35.30655,149.1455&ll=-35.30655,149.1455
- Checklist:
https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S54032089
- Comments: "Large black and white cormorant with blue and yellow on face. In water."
Black Kite (Milvus migrans) (2)
- Reported Mar 19, 2019 11:33 by Rainer Rehwinkel
- Nevertire Street parkland, Australian Capital Territory
- Map:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=-35.2339472,149.0909153&ll=-35.2339472,149.0909153
- Checklist:
https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S54033341
- Comments: "Two birds were observed from my balcony. They were flying high over the suburb of Bruce in a south-easterly direction. They appeared to be doing some sort of courtship flight, with the two birds locking talons for a short time (one or two seconds),
with one bird flying upside-down. Then they flew off with shallow wingbeats, seemingly synchronised. They were definitely Black Kites: they were dark all over, had forked tails and flew on flatly held wings."
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