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Hi Birders,
Annabel Ashworth asked a question
about the western limit of range of the Spectacled Monarch in NSW and whether it
would be possible to see one 20 km E of Tamworth, which is located on the NSW
North West Slopes. Morris, McGill & Holmes (1981), give the western limit as
the eastern fall of the Great Diving Range, coming south along the Timbarra
River near Gibraltar Range, Salisbury Water and then down to the southern limit
being Barrington Tops/Mount Royal Range, ie there are no records for the North
West Slopes, and basically no records actually on the Northern Tableands.
I have checked all the published
records from 1960 onwards and there have been no reports further west
however that is not to say that one was not seen near Tamworth. It is also worth
noting that the Spectacled Monarch is generally a migrant to NE NSW arriving in
September and departing in April, and winter records are very rare.
Alan Morris
Records Officer, Birding
NSW.
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