Hello Edwin,
Like you I've never had more than two species of bittern in the one day,
also Black and Little although it was in northern Australia- not as
impressive as doing it in Sydney! In fact Sydney may be one of the few
areas that this could be possible. I'm pretty sure that I can't match your
rail count.
How about finches? I remember seeing Star, Crimson, Double-bar, Zebra,
Yellow-rumped Mannikin, Chestnut-breasted Mannikin, Masked Finch and
Long-tailed Finch at the one spot near Kununurra during the wet season of
1999-2000 while I was doing finch research. I can think of a few more that
I didn't see that you could see with a bit of effort and a bit of luck like
Pictorella Mannikin, Gouldian Finch. So I suspect my score may have been
bettered by someone out there.
Cheers,
Mick Todd
Griffith, NSW
At 08:40 PM 23/09/02 +1000, Edwin Vella wrote:
Has anybody out there achieved this?
I was thinking about this whilst in the Hawkesbury (north-western Sydney)
yesterday as there are or has been 3 species of Bittern about within a few
km distance from each other at Cattai and Pitt Town. A few Black Bitterns
are resident at Cattai, atleast one Little Bittern has also been about
(probably more common than the very few seen) and there are no doubt some
Australasian (Brown) Bitterns around (one I saw yesterday). The best I
have achieved were two species in one day in Sydney - one Black and 2
Little Bitterns.
Another challenge are the most rails and crakes in a day. My best score
for Sydney and anywhere is 7 species - Bailon's, Spotless, Australian
(Spotted) Crakes, Buff-banded Rail and the easy Coot, Moorhen and Swamphen.
Are there any other great challenges - Nocturnal birds, Raptors etc.
Edwin
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