Syd,
There are references to Bell Miners being on the slopes of the
escarpement close to Bulli mineshaft near Woolongong, NSW in the late
1800's. This area would have been temperate rainforest with some
eucalypt overstorey, the rainforest would have been mainly in the
creek beds which run down from the escarpment. They have not been
recorded in this site for many a year.
On the south coast of NSW they tend to be in the wetter Eucalypt
forest areas. Studies on this species around Melbourne showed that
they prefer to be close to creeklines and water.
Alan Leishman
Royal Botanic Gardens,
Sydney
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Subject: birding-aus Bellbird habitat query
Author: < (Syd Curtis)> at mailgate
Date: 28/8/99 6:03
In a newsletter of a conservation organisation (not a specifically
ornithological one) there's a general account of a field trip in which
reference is made to hearing bellbirds followed by the statement:
"They are difficult to spot in the dull light of the rainforest."
I have regarded Bellbirds as a strictly Eucalyptus forest species. Can
anyone confirm that they also inhabit rainforest?
Syd Curtis at Hawthorne in Q.
H Syd Curtis
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