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ACT Region Hotline highlights

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Subject: ACT Region Hotline highlights
From: Ian Fraser <>
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 11:15:01 +1000 (EST)
Highlights from twice-weekly Canberra Ornithologists' Group (COG) hotline,
for period ending 25 September (some reports are of earlier obs).
Sorry for the hiatus; combination of work-related absence and serious family
illness. It's been an important time for us, so herewith the summary.

THE FOLLOWING ARE 'FIRST RETURNS' FOR THE SEASON:

REED WARBLER    29/8
NOISY FRIARBIRD 30/8
OLIVE-BACKED ORIOLE     31/8
HORSFIELD'S BRONZE-CUCKOO  2/9
WESTERN WARBLER 2/9
RUFOUS WHISTLER 3/9
SHINING BRONZE-CUCKOO   5/9
WHITE-THROATED WARBLER  5/9
SUPERB PARROTS  8/9 (Gundaroo, 40k north of Canberra)
FAIRY MARTIN   15/9

MISC RECORDS: **NOTE ESPECIALLY LAST TWO**

SOUTHERN WHITEFACE      3, inner suburban Red Hill [very scarce locally,
almost never recorded in suburbs for many years]

MAJOR MITCHELL COCKIES  13/9    3, just W of Ardlethan [east of Griffith, a
LONG way east of their normal range]

TAWNY FROGMOUTH NESTING 19/9 inner suburban Campbell Park, in a nest
described as "the size of a magpie's"

WHITE IBIS NESTING      21/9    ~100 at Rose's (or Rowes) Lagoon [~20k south
of Goulburn]

AUSTRALASIAN BITTERN 'booming' also 21/9 at Rose's (or Rowes) Lagoon 

** GLOSSY BLACK-COCKIES    22/9 3 on inner suburban Mt Majura. MOST
SIGNIFICANTLY, ONE IS REPORTED AS HAVING A 'TWISTED TAIL'. [This follows
earlier reports of apparent courtship behaviour. They have never been
reported as breeding in the area.]

** 'NIGHTJAR'   22/9 flushed off ground in Casuarinas in inner suburban
Mount Majura [species uncertain, though observer sure of i.d. ACT falls
between ranges of White-throated to east, and Spotted to west. I am unaware
of any previous nightjar records near here]

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Hotline number: 02 6247 5530
COG web site: www.canberrabirds.dynamite.com.au/
---
Ian Fraser, Canberra  
Environment Tours; Vertego Environmental Writing Consultancy
GPO Box 3268, Canberra, ACT 2601
ph: 02 62491560 fax: 02 62473227




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