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From: Bill Jolly <>
To: Birding Aus <>
Date: Friday, 19 May 2000 12:23
Subject: Plum-headed Finches
>Friends of ours, Howard and Dita Peterson, are pretty sure they've seen a
>party of Plum-headed Finches over the last few days at Lota, a bayside
>suburb of Brisbane. They're still striving for a better look, but it was
>Howard and Dita who first turned up the Plum-heads when they returned to
>Abberton earlier this year, and they're feeling pretty confident.
>
>They have asked if there are many records of Plumheads as far east as the
>coast, and whether anyone has seen them in the Brisbane area recently.
>
>We'd value any observations on this.
>
I observed plum-headed finches in the centre of Ipswich in July 1992. Since
then, my only other sighting was at Jaenke's Lagoon, 12 months ago.
Vicki PS
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