On Fri, 14 Aug 1998 10:21:15 +0930 Bob Sothman wrote:
> From: Bob Sothman <>
> Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 10:21:15 +0930
> Subject: Re: No chestnut-brested whitefaces
> To:
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> Woody Kuehn reported to birding-aus that he failed in April 98 to find
> any chestnut-breasted whitefaces around 27 km north of Lyndhurst (the
> site indicated on p169 of Thomas & Thomas).
>
> I have visited this site on four separate occasions over the last 12
> months and have failed to find any whitefaces although I did find
> thick-billed grasswrens and rufous fieldwrens as did Woody.
>
> On my last visit two weeks ago I did hear chestnut-breasted whitefaces
> calling but it turned out to be a South African tourist playing a tape
> recorder! He did not see any real whitefaces either.
>
> The last sighting of chestnut-breasted whitefaces at this location I
> know of was about 18 months ago. Thus, it would be informative to know
> of any recent sightings.
Bob,
We found 2 whitefaces at the old mine site in Thomas & Thomas after
several hours of searching (without use of tapes) on 9 August. One
appeared to be carrying nest building material and despite expectations
were quite approachable (one of our party even photographed them). An
earlier search of the km26 site was unsuccessful. A nice bird - better than I
was expecting.
We regretably didn't make it up to Birdsville, being let down by failure of car
hire company to provide the booked 4WD and our reluctance to take a hire
car (not covered by insurance) further than necessary to see Inland Dotterel
- 15kms N of Marree as it happened.
Best wishes
Richard Fairbank
England
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