Hello John,
Apologies (if needed) for causing you puzzlement. It is not unusual for topics on chat lines to get a short airing, have a gap of a few years and come up again.
A lot has happened to me in that time, especially this year, as with most of us. It appears I had forgotten prior comments. Regardless, other observations thus confirm yours, which is useful. I would not have thought it was well-known behaviour, it is not
mentioned in HANZAB. Has it been published in Canberra Bird Notes? It should be. Clearly several people know of it. I did not suspect they are breeding there, only feeding, although now I can suspect the possibility that they are breeding. Sadly(?) with an
office rearrangement, I no longer have that window seat……….
Philip
From: calyptorhynchus [
Sent: Saturday, 8 August, 2020 7:56 AM
To: Canberra Birds
Subject: Re: [Canberrabirds] Odd place for lapwings
I find this thread quite puzzling. A few years ago I reported lapwings nesting on the roof of Hughes Primary School and all the responses indicated this was well known behaviour. This time round many people seem unaware of it??
On Sat, 8 Aug 2020 at 07:46 Maryanne Gates <> wrote:
The plovers on the roof of the Queanbeyan bowling club definitely got down in one piece (nobody saw them come down but they were suddenly 6 babies safely on the grass). A couple of days later the club rang Wildcare and asked for them to
be removed because it was reopening after the Christmas break and the parents were swooping. This was about 6 years ago.
On Sat, 8 Aug 2020 at 04:48, Philip Veerman <> wrote:
Thanks for these responses. Leads to the question, do the chicks of nesting on rooves ever survive?
How do they get down? This must be a new thing for them, rooves are recent in history, unlike the ducks that nest in trees and the chicks follow the parents and just jump down to land on the ground.
Philip
From: Maryanne
Gates [
Sent: Friday, 7 August, 2020 8:40 AM
To: Marg Peachey
Cc: Philip Veerman; Canberra Birds
Subject: Re: [Canberrabirds] Odd place for lapwings
We got a report of them nesting on the Yass Police Station roof just a couple of weeks ago. And previously I have dealt with them nesting on a roof in an industrial area in Queanbeyan
and the lawn bowls club.
Maryanne Gates
Bird Coordinator/Secretary
Wildcare Queanbeyan Inc
PO Box 1404 Queanbeyan NSW 2620
www.wildcare.com.au
02 6299 1966
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On Thu, 6 Aug 2020 at 23:40, Marg Peachey <> wrote:
A few years ago a pair of Masked Lapwings nested on top of the Cook shops.
On Thu, 6 Aug 2020 at 21:14, Philip Veerman <> wrote:
My first floor workplace desk over the past month or more overlooks the roof
of the post office depot in Tuggeranong. It is olive green (i.e. grass
colour). The roof is regularly occupied by a pair of Masked Lapwings. I
don't see them on the other nearby rooves. I don't know what food they find
there but I think they sometimes do. I expect there is a precedent for this
but it is still odd.
Philip
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