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A South Gippsland query

To: "'Peter Ginnane'" <>, "" <>
Subject: A South Gippsland query
From: "Lawrie Conole" <>
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 15:26:44 +1000
>I want to query the sighting of 4 thornbills I saw at the Pt. 
>Albert end of a morning walk from Seabank and appear similar 
>to the slender bill we have here  (in S.A.). They were in the 
>floodplain with striated fieldwrens and brown thornbills in 
>adjacent shrubs.
>
>Are there any suggestions on what these are? I'm positive that 
>they're not Brown Thornbills which were common in the adjacent 
>shrubbery.

Hi Peter

There's almost no chance at all that these are Slender-billed Thornbills
(aka Samphire Thornbill), because that species has a very limited range
in mallee heathland in the Little and Big Deserts in NW Victoria.  We
don't have the samphire version of the 'Samphire' Thornbill here!

Maybe they were Buff-rumped Thornbills - outwardly somewhat similar in
appearance, calls, etc.

Regards, Lawrie


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