Highlights from twice-weekly Canberra Ornithologists' Group (COG) hotline,
for period ending 15 January (some reports are of earlier obs).
MY APOLOGIES FOR THE DATED NATURE OF SOME OF THESE - I'M AFRAID IT'S THAT
TIME OF YEAR!
SUPERB PARROTS 24/12 and subsequent. Up to 15 feeding on northern suburban
Mt Rogers.
13/1 6 in canopy of E. blakelyi just across nthn ACT border[on
lovely woodland property marked for sub-division; I was surveying it as
required by them under NSW Threatened Species Act - hopefully the parrots
may have saved their own habitat!]
7/1 35 between Grenfell and Young; another 20 Young to Harden
(all west of here, on SW slopes of NSW)
rabid NOISY FRIARBIRD vigorously attacking walkers on Mt Rogers (including
those admiring the Superb Parrots) to the point where the Parks Service has
put up a warning sign!
BLACK KITE 28/12 over suburban Kambah!
BROWN SONGLARK 29/12 inner suburban Mt Majura [only the 2nd ob this year,
which is the first year they've been reported here for about 3]
WHITE-NECKED HERONS up to 6 at a time at suburban Jerrabomberra wetlands
[this is not a common ACT bird at all; probably related to Riverina droughts]
DIAMOND DOVES various reports from Forbes - Grenfell. [150 - 200k west of
here; not normally this far east - again presumably drought-related]
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Hotline number: 02 6247 5530
COG web site: www.canberrabirds.dynamite.com.au/
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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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