White-plumed Honeyeater; the species has certainly disappeared from many areas, on the other hand they can be regularly found in more recent and urban eucalypt plantings, including in some of the more industrial areas, e.g. Mitchell etc.
Michael Lenz
On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 at 14:21, Philip Veerman <> wrote:
I also very rarely get
White-plumed Honeyeater in my garden (probably never), occasionally in local park which I include in my GBS area. But I think the species is among the most
common native birds in Melbourne. So it is not urbanization that is their constraint.
Philip
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I agree with Mark.
To take one example. I have seen a White-plumed Honeyeater once in my garden close to thirty years ago. They do not appear to have been anywhere
close to my suburb in Woden for a long time.
Alan
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Subject: Re: [Canberrabirds] Upper Warks Road this morning
Having banded in the general area of Wark's and Lee's Creek and up at New Chum's roads back in the mid to late 1960s to the mid 70's and frequent visits since over the years, I have commented that the area in the last 10 years or so has
been totally "dead, dull and boring" bird wise. I did a blitz site there several years ago and didn't even record any White-browed Scrubwrens, one of the commoner species we used to band, and only a couple of Brown Thonbills. This also applies to Campbell
Park and the Lake Road near Lake George. Species that I used to see regularly back then appear to have completely disappeared from the local area. Several examples are Brown Treecreeper, Hooded and Flame Robins, Southern Whiteface and even species that people
probably still think of as common, the White-plumed Honeyeater. Climate change has a lot to do with it but so have successive ACT Governments (both persuasions) with their mad desire to knock down every native eucalypt, build as many "houses" on tiny blocks
as they can and then try and replant with exotics. I drove down John Gorton Drive yesterday and couldn't believe the amount of clearing going on near Bluett's Block. The current ACT Government couldn't care less about their local legislation concerning our
listed "Threatened Species". I have lived in Canberra for nearly 70 years so have seen huge changes in our bird life, mostly for the worst!
Mark
On 30/12/2021 12:30 pm, calyptorhynchus via Canberrabirds wrote:
I went out via Picadilly circus and Bendora dam road to the upper part of Warks Road. All the roads were open and in fact the gate at the top of Warks Road was open to although I parked outside and walked down.
The road was eerily quiet, I’m not sure why this is but there didn’t just didn’t seem to be many birds about and even the common species weren’t very common. Perhaps the birds are between the first and second broods,
or perhaps they have had such a rotten time with the cold, wet and windy weather they have just given up on breeding.
I did manage to see a few good things, Rufous fantail, red browed tree creeper, and around the junction of Warks Road and new chums Road they were five or six Cicadabirds calling from different directions. I manage to
get the bins on one female.
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