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Hi Birders,
Ralph Read enquired as to where he could find
Yellow-rumped Thornbills in the Greater Sydney Region.
According to the bible, ie The Birds of Sydney 1991
by Ernie Hoskin, Yellow-rumped Thornbills, although a declining species as the
rural areas gradually become urbanised, they still can be found in Centennial
Park in Sydney's east. Normally they are associated with pastures and extensive
mown gardens, as in houses on acreages, that have a bushland fringe. Here on
the Central Coast just north of Sydney, they are reasonably common around the
shores of Tuggerah Lakes in mown picnic areas that have fringing Casuarinas or
Eucalypts. Two good places to see them are Picnic Point Reserve, The Entrance
and Lions Park, Berkeley Vale. They also are reasonably common at mangrove
mountain on the farmland there. I would expect that Western Sydney Regional Park
at Fairfield, and
Rouse Hill Regional Park would also have resident
group.
Alan Morris
Records Officer NSWFOC
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