>We've recently had a thread about the status and location of hot-spots for
>Great-crested Grebe. I wonder if we could turn our minds to Crested
>Shrike-tits?
>
>Reason being that it just occurred to me the other day that CST (or at
>least the se race, I haven't seen it anywhere outside the se) is one of the
>few birds which I can't really think of the habitat requirements for. I
>seem to have see the sp in every type of wooded habitat from rain-forest
>with palms (se Queensland) to exotic plantings in the ACT. Nor do the birds
>seem to be very sedentary or predictable in their occurrence. I must see
>them three or four times a year, but hardly ever in the same places, and
>it's always unexpected to find them.
>
>Have other people found this to be the case? What are its habitat
>requirements?
>
>John Leonard
>
>
>
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Re: John Leonard's piece on Shrike Tits, they are fairly frequently seen at
McGrath's Hill Sewage works, Windsor ( near the sewage buildings) foraging
in a group of gums that include Swamp Mahogany.
Also not far from Windsor at Cattai Nat.Park and Mitchell Park in wet
schlerophyll - Grey gum and Cabbage gum (and other gums) and understorey.
In Capertee Valley, north west of Lithgow, we find them at Glen Alice in
the small bit of remnant woodland behind the community hall (White and
Yellow Box, ironbarks), and many other places, usually foraging in remnant
vegetation and woodland with good understorey. It's fairly rare NOT to find
them somewhere in Capertee.
Penny
Penny Drake-Brockman, Examination Recitals Co-ordinator, Sydney
Conservatorium of Music.
Tel: 02 9351 1254.
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