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Subject: Re: birding-aus Marked increases - Fairy Wrens !
Author: Penny Drake-Brockman <> at mailgate
Date: 11/10/99 9:22
>John Gamblin wrote:
>>
>> A very quick message to all but we have a very marked
>> increase in numbers of the Willie Wagtail in the
>> township of Hastings and on the Mornington Peninsula
>> in general, and boy are they singing.
>>
>> What a dawn chorus this morn.
>>
>> John A. Gamblin
>>
>This is interesting because I have also noticed a similar increase in
>Willie Wagtail numbers in my home area at Hurstville in suburban Sydney.
>There has also been a noticeable increase in peewee numbers as well.
>Perhaps it is just a coincidence but I perceive that there are less cats
>around now than when I moved here 16 years ago. Unfortunately, superb
>fairywren numbers have crashed during that period and have not
>recovered.
>
>Graham Fry
To add to the above, fairy wrens have crashed in Darlington and around
Sydney Uni campus due to overkeen clearing of undergrowth and the rise in
the number of currawongs that now nest successfully throughout this area of
South Sydney.
Penny
Penny Drake-Brockman, Examination Recitals Co-ordinator, Sydney
Conservatorium of Music.
Tel: 02 9351 1254.
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To further add to this discussion, during a recent banding trip to
Back Yamma State Forest the most common species was Willie Wagtails.
they we in pairs with very small spacings between pairs and there was
no evidence of interaction between individual pairs. I caught 5 Willie
Wagtaile during the three periods of netting. This was a large number
for a species that is not easy to net.
Superb Fairy-wrens are slowly increasing in numbers within the Royal
Botanic Gardens, sydney after they had crashed in numbers some three
years ago. Meanwhile the Buff-banded rails continue to breed
sucessfully and there are about 10-12 pairs within the Gardens.
Regards,
Alan Leishman
Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
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