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The Superb Parrot traffic is just ramping up for me in Hawker. July is the quietest period with maybe a couple of birds a week. Now I’m seeing and hearing the birds move in and out of the suburbs. As I wrote in June: I’m
basically under a flyway (Dungowan and Mataranka Sts) between the breeding area to the south-west in the molonglo valley and feeding areas in the suburbs. Singles, pairs, groups small and large, calling and silent.
Soon enough, there will be too many to keep track of. Then when birds are on eggs, I get groups of males coming over. In January, it’s groups of adults and young.
I’d love to get some volunteers to sit along the urban rural fringe and count the birds moving (number, direction, sex ratio). There is no substitute for quality survey work!
John’s spot in Holt must be just far enough west from here to miss that regular commuting traffic.
I’ve attached a pic that shows the parrot breeding areas in the molonglo valley and the spring valley farm further south. My house is the red circle.
On 18 Aug 2021, at 11:25 am, Peter <> wrote:
Certainly many overwintered in the Gungahlin area, I didn't see the big flocks that were present at the end of June, but I would more often than not see 2-20 Superbs on my commuting bike ride through Franklin in July and early August, observations have ceased
since I entered quarantine
Peter
On 18/08/2021 11:22 am, Philip Veerman wrote:
There has been at least one pair of Superb Parrots at the Kambah adventure playground and/or Jenke Circuit, on each of a small number of visits by me there over
the last 10 days (including Monday). I had one fly over my house on last July GBS week (i.e. in early August) and I believe another heard (just one sound) yesterday, though I’m not entirely sure that wasn’t Bowerbird mimicry.
Philip
Two flew west over MacArthur this morning. First for this location for me.
Richard
There are still a few here in Watson
On Wed, 18 Aug 2021 at 8:32 am, calyptorhynchus via Canberrabirds <> wrote:
I was confidently predicting regularly from April onwards that the Superbs were going to leave the Hughes/Garran area but in fact I think we can now describe them as overwinterers in this area.
The bulk of them seem to have left this area through June, but during July I saw and heard the odd bird. Since the beginning of August I have been seeing and hearing larger groups, with a flock of over ten yesterday.
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