An early morning at Paddys River TSR. Small flocks of Yellow-faced Honeyeaters were moving through not long after sunrise, including in one flock, 2 Crescent Honeyeaters. Further up the hill in more open country
were 2 Pied Butcherbirds.
Cheers
Nicki Taws
0408 210736
And my eBird alert from last night tells me David Dedunczuk saw 4 at the East Uriarra Reserve yesterday (https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S42867975),
including at least one juvenile with a brown hood.
This seems to be a rare breeding record, with the 2015-2016 COG Annual Bird Report (ABR) listing only the 3rd breeding record in the COG AoI. However, at least to me, breeding is not unexpected
given the increase in records over the past few years as shown in the ABR, and with some now seeming to be in established territories where they can be reliably found such as the above.
Is it going to parallel the significant increase in numbers over the past 30 years of the Grey Butcherbird – if climate change is the driver quite likely?!
Jack Holland
From: Steve Read
Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2018 1:36
PM
To: 'Geoffrey Dabb' ;
Subject: RE: [canberrabirds] Pied Butcherbird
Only last month, at Uriarra East, Geoffrey
https://ebird.org/australia/view/checklist/S41888527
From: Geoffrey Dabb [
Sent: Sunday, 18 February 2018 1:09 PM
To:
Subject: FW: [canberrabirds] Pied Butcherbird
Surely … surely … no-one is going to come up with THREE Pied Butcherbirds …?
From: Steve Read [
Sent: Sunday, 18 February 2018 12:57 PM
To: 'Rick Kuhn'; 'COG list'
Subject: RE: [canberrabirds] Pied Butcherbird
Nice picture, Rick. There were two Pied Butcherbirds in a similar location yesterday morning.
https://ebird.org/australia/view/checklist/S42858736
Steve
From: Rick Kuhn [
Sent: Sunday, 18 February 2018 12:09 PM
To: COG list <>
Subject: [canberrabirds] Pied Butcherbird
There was a Pied Butcherbird calling in the paddock over the western fence of Kama NR this morning.
