m("callista.com.au","Peter.Fuller");"> wrote:
Does anyone know if Red Capped or Hooded
Robin ever been recorded at the You Yangs?
I would have expected that habitat is
fairly suited to both species???
Both have, and I believe Hooded Robin continues to hang on in a couple
of spots at the You Yangs though largely locally extinct throughout
the rest of its previous range in the wider Geelong area (south-central
Victoria).
Red-capped Robins are regularly recorded at the You Yangs, but are
probably not currently resident. Scarlet Robins are resident there.
The nearest resident RCRs that I know of are at Long Forest, maybe
Eynesbury (both near Bacchus Marsh west of Melbourne), and Woodlands
Historic Park (near Melbourne's Tullamarine airport). Long Forest is
mallee and box forest; Eynesbury and Woodlands are both predominantly
Grey Box forest. They co-occur with Scarlet Robins at Long Forest and
Eynesbury.
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