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Hi Birders,
John Harris on 27 April 2001 queried whether he
had seen Yellow-plumed or Grey-headed Honeyeaters near Gilgandra on a
recent trip through that area. Firstly Grey-headed Honeyeaters do not occur in
NSW, they occur further north in Central Australia and inland Queensland.
However Yellow-plumed Honeyeaters do occur in the mallee remnants around
Gilgandra, particularly at Coolbaggie Nature Reserve near Eumungerie, in parts
of the Goonoo State Forest and in the Gilgandra Flora Reserve near Bearbung. So
that is possibly what he saw.
Grey-fronted Honeyeaters have been reported in the
Pilliga forests however the NSW Ornithological Records Appraisal Committee did
not accept a record referred to them and when I have followed up some alleged
reports, I believe that the observers mis-identified Fuscous Honeyeaters which
are relatively common in some of the white box woodland around
Coonabrabran-Baradine in the Pilliga forests.
I would like to have more details of the
Yellow-plumed Honeyeater observation if John could email me direct
please.
Alan Morris
Editor, NSW Bird Report
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