Re: Where have all the Ibis gone?

[Alexandra Appleman <>]

At 06:08 8/11/98 PST, jon wren wrote:
>Gooday all,
>Over the weekend 7-8 November I was involved in the Qld. Twitch. To our 
>amazement we did not locate a single Ibis species. We travelled a total 
>of 85 Km around the Bowen area and passed freshly ploughed fields, 
>rubbish dump and various waterholes, dams etc.
>Have any other people noticed the lack of Ibis in their areas? 
>
>
Australian White Ibis are still found in good numbers around Townsville,
including my garden, as we have a large communal roost on the South bank of
the Ross River, which they share with a colony of black flying foxes and 1
or 2 hundred cattle egrets.

I haven't noticed many Straw-necked Ibis around recently which suggests the
'dry weather bird' can sense that we are in for a Big Wet.  I recorded over
100mm of rain at Gulliver last week.

Cheers