FW: Fwd: 2024 Keep An Ear Out For AustralasianBitterns At Your Local Wetland

[Kim Farley via Canberrabirds <>]

For interest, here is the eBird Hotspot list for Wet Lagoon near Breadalbane https://ebird.org/hotspot/L2557324.   

And for background, COG Committee and me in particular were in correspondence with Bradley some months ago as he wondered whether interested local people might like to contribute to this BirdLife Australia survey. It was agreed that we would publicise it on the Chatline closer to the time - which has now happened.  At the time Bradley and I discussed the survey, the local sites he mentioned were those where the species has been reported.  Bradley had consulted eBird and elsewhere for these sites - which were JWNR, Acacia Inlet, sites at North Canberra plus the two NSW sites of Rowes Lagoon and Wet Lagoon. I have written back to Bradley today as he may like to clarify the sites he is interested in, or whether he would be happy to include all the local sites where the species has been reported. 

Kim

On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 8:01 PM Steve Read via Canberrabirds <> wrote:

Wet Lagoon is a wetland immediately north of the Hume Hwy, Mark, south-east of Breadalbane. Presumably named for its permanent water.

Regards 

Steve

On Fri, 2 Aug 2024 at 7:39 PM, Mark Clayton via Canberrabirds <> wrote:

So what or where is “wet Lagoon” locally please? I hav never heard of it in the local rea.

 

Mark

 

Sent from Mail for Windows

 

From:
Sent: Friday, 2 August 2024 3:38 PM
To:
Subject: [Canberrabirds] FW: Fwd: 2024 Keep An Ear Out For AustralasianBitterns At Your Local Wetland

 

Below is a later (corrected) version of a similar comment that might turn up on this chatline.

 

From: Geoffrey Dabb <>
Sent: Friday, August 2, 2024 12:13 PM

I see that the 3 ‘priority and potential sites’ in the Canberra area are JWNR, Wet Lagoon and Rose Lagoon (labelled Tarago Lagoon).  None of those is in the list of sites with recent records, but are coded as ‘potential habitat’.  However in the recent record list I spy a ‘Kelly Swamp’. This, as it happens, is a wetland feature near Warrnambool, Vic.  Different swamp, different Kelly, no doubt.

 

Turning to eBird, I see sight records from Wet Lagoon earlier this year and photo records from Rose Lagoon Feb last year.  I shall leave it to someone else to act on the invitation of the below co-ordinator to report missed records.  Depends what ‘recent’ means, I suppose.

 

From: Canberrabirds <> On Behalf Of Canberra Birds Secretary
Sent: Friday, August 2, 2024 9:45 AM
To: CanberraBirds email list <>
Subject: [Canberrabirds] Fwd: 2024 Keep An Ear Out For Australasian Bitterns At Your Local Wetland

 

For the interest of members.

 

Margaret Robertson

Secretary Canberra Birds