Superb Parrots back in Hughes

[calyptorhynchus via Canberrabirds <>]

I couldn’t say that some don’t stay all winter, however I live in Jensen Street near Red Hill and I work from home most days and do frequent walks and runs around the Red Hill, Federal Golf Course area. When the SPs are around they are pretty obvious, not so much visible as audible. Since they moved into the area around 2018 the pattern has been large numbers from September to March, with smaller numbers in August and from March to June. They do seem to me to absent in the very coldest weeks from June to early August.

John L

On Wed, 10 Aug 2022 at 09:56 Anthony Overs <> wrote:

I think there’s no doubt that a lot of Superb Parrots leave the area. And your observation may indeed be of returning birds. However, I’ve seen some data (and unsure about how much detail I can share) that indicates parrots may be here all winter roosting in several locations. One of those is in garran near red hill. 

On 24 July, while in Birdwood St Hughes (looking for a reported Blue-faced Honeyeater), I saw four Superbs fly over heading east, possibly to that location.

As I've discussed before, the distribution and abundance of superbs has changed and is still changing, and is something that we are attempting to get a handle on (I’m putting together a paper on this for CBN). You have to go back to the mid 1990s to find that classic behavior of arriving back in the region first week of September, breeding out at wallaroo/captains hill, seeing families in Fraser in December, departing the area in last week of January. 

Anthony 

 

On 10 Aug 2022, at 8:35 am, calyptorhynchus via Canberrabirds <> wrote:

Seen early this morning a flock of about twenty flying over. I hadn’t heard or seen them for about eight weeks. 

John L

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