I just returned from a field trip to Barmah Forest on the River Murray
near Echuca - my last official visit to this study area. My field
assistant on this occasion was Jamie Ford (from Armidale, NSW). The
weather was pretty atrocious for bird study, with 7 out of the 8 days
being >/= 40degC. The last day (packing up) featured non-stop rain -
which also made some of the roads impassable for 2WDs, and I had to tow
Jamie's 2WD out of the forest!
Bird activity and diversity was generally quite low on my study sites,
which seems typical of mid - late Summer in these parts. Points of
interest in short:
* Restless Flycatcher recorded at numerous sites in the forest. On 7
previous trips to Barmah, we only have 1 other Restless Flycatcher
record. Very odd.
* Superb Parrots are still roosting in River Red Gum areas of the
forest, and seem not to have moved out into the fringing box forest
in great numbers yet.
* 2 Fork-tailed Swifts on the tail end of a low pressure trough one
evening.
* Little and Noisy Friarbirds still with flying young.
* A juvenile Black Kite on Long Plain Track in the forest - my first
BK in the 'forest proper'. They are more abundant on farmland
around the forest rather than in it.
A full list appears below the signature block; see below ....
L.
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BARMAH LIST
4 - 11 February 2000.
Lawrie Conole & Jamie Ford
Emu Dromaius novaehollandiae
Australian Wood Duck Chenonetta jubata
Pacific Black Duck Anas superciliosa
Grey Teal Anas gracilis
Darter Anhinga melanogaster
Little Pied Cormorant Phalacrocorax melanoleucos
Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
Australian Pelican Pelecanus conspicillatus
White-faced Heron Egretta novaehollandiae
Great Egret Ardea alba
Nankeen Night Heron Nycticorax caledonicus
Yellow-billed Spoonbill Platalea flavipes
Black Kite Milvus migrans
Whistling Kite Haliastur sphenurus
White-bellied Sea-Eagle Haliaeetus leucogaster
Swamp Harrier Circus approximans
Brown Goshawk Accipiter fasciatus
Collared Sparrowhawk Accipiter cirrhocephalus
Wedge-tailed Eagle Aquila audax
Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
Painted Button-quail Turnix varia
Masked Lapwing Vanellus miles
Common Bronzewing Phaps chalcoptera
Crested Pigeon Ocyphaps lophotes
Peaceful Dove Geopelia striata
Galah Cacatua roseicapilla
Long-billed Corella Cacatua tenuirostris
Little Corella Cacatua sanguinea
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo Cacatua galerita
Cockatiel Nymphicus hollandicus
Superb Parrot Polytelis swainsonii
Crimson (Yellow) Rosella Platycercus elegans flaveolus
Eastern Rosella Platycercus eximius
Red-rumped Parrot Psephotus haematonotus
Pallid Cuckoo Cuculus pallidus
Fan-tailed Cuckoo Cacomantis flabelliformis
Southern Boobook Ninox novaeseelandiae
Tawny Frogmouth Podargus strigoides
Fork-tailed Swift Apus pacificus
Azure Kingfisher Alcedo azurea
Laughing Kookaburra Dacelo novaeguineae
Sacred Kingfisher Todiramphus sanctus
Rainbow Bee-eater Merops ornatus
Dollarbird Eurystomus orientalis
White-throated Treecreeper Cormobates leucophaeus
Brown Treecreeper Climacteris picumnus
Superb Fairy-wren Malurus cyaneus
Spotted Pardalote Pardalotus punctatus
Striated Pardalote Pardalotus striatus
White-browed Scrubwren Sericornis frontalis
Weebill Smicrornis brevirostris
Western Gerygone Gerygone fusca
Buff-rumped Thornbill Acanthiza reguloides
Yellow-rumped Thornbill Acanthiza chrysorrhoa
Yellow Thornbill Acanthiza nana
Striated Thornbill Acanthiza lineata
Noisy Friarbird Philemon corniculatus
Little Friarbird Philemon citreogularis
White-plumed Honeyeater Lichenostomus penicillatus
Black-chinned Honeyeater Melithreptus gularis
Brown-headed Honeyeater Melithreptus brevirostris
Jacky Winter Microeca fascinans
Scarlet Robin Petroica multicolor
Red-capped Robin Petroica goodenovii
Varied Sittella Daphoenositta chrysoptera
Crested Shrike-tit Falcunculus frontatus
Rufous Whistler Pachycephala rufiventris
Grey Shrike-thrush Colluricincla harmonica
Leaden Flycatcher Myiagra rubecula
Restless Flycatcher Myiagra inquieta
Magpie-lark Grallina cyanoleuca
Grey Fantail Rhipidura fuliginosa
Willie Wagtail Rhipidura leucophrys
Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike Coracina novaehollandiae
Olive-backed Oriole Oriolus sagittatus
White-breasted Woodswallow Artamus leucorynchus
Dusky Woodswallow Artamus cyanopterus
Australian Magpie Gymnorhina tibicen
Australian Raven Corvus coronoides
White-winged Chough Corcorax melanorhamphos
Red-browed Finch Neochmia temporalis
Mistletoebird Dicaeum hirundinaceum
Welcome Swallow Hirundo neoxena
Tree Martin Hirundo nigricans
Clamorous Reed-Warbler Acrocephalus stentoreus
Silvereye Zosterops lateralis
Yellow-footed Antechinus Antechinus flavipes
Common Brushtail Possum Trichosurus vulpecula
Eastern Grey Kangaroo Macropus giganteus
Southern Freetail-bat Mormopterus planiceps
White-striped Freetail-bat Nyctinomus australis
Gould's Wattled Bat Chalinolobus gouldii
Rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus
Fox Vulpes vulpes
Brumby Equus caballus
Spotted Grass Frog Limnodynastes tasmaniensis
Peron's Tree Frog Litoria peronii
Warm-temperate Water-skink Eulamprus heatwolei
South-eastern Morethia Skink Morethia boulengeri
Red-bellied Black Snake Pseudechis porphyriacus
100 species
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