Unusual Sightings in the Lane Cove national Park

["Andrew Stafford" <>]

Graham,

 

At least one of the two sightings listed by Kurtis (not to shoot the messenger; I know the claims aren't his) sounds highly questionable to me. A Cotton Pygmy-Goose in Sydney would be an extreme rarity. Has anyone followed this up?

 

Cheers, AS

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Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 1:47 PM

Subject: RE: [BIRDING-AUS] Unusual Sightings in the Lane Cove national Park

Gidday all,

                having had some dealings with the NPWS wildlife atlas I suggest that all records on the database are used with caution. While the two species listed below are quite reasonable, many records are just silly. Errors range from data entry mistakes through to ID mistakes (little or no vetting of data is carried out).

 

Cheers

Graham Turner

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Subject: [BIRDING-AUS] Unusual Sightings in the Lane Cove national Park

Hi all,
I was just on the NSW National Parks and wildlife service website and went into the bird list of Lane Cove National Park.
The website is worth a visit as there is some recent quite unusual sightings
The following are some of them,

Cotton Pygmy Goose 4 sightings- record generated 23-8-03
Bar Shouldered Dove 1 sighting-record generated 23-8-03

the webpage is at
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http://wildlifeatlas.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/wildlifeatlas/result_reccount.jsp?selFF=FA&rdSpecies=all&rdRecords=all&receivedType=Reserve&receivedValue=N0083&receivedText=Lane+Cove+National+Park

Cheers,
Kurtis Lindsay