White-winged Choughs south of Hamilton (Vic)

["simon starr" <>]

I was interested to hear of your sighting Steve as recently near Pyramid
Hill I have seen WWChoughs in unlikely places.I normally see them where
there is tree cover extending at least 10 hectares or so and there's a few
sites on the plains here where they are hanging on.However I've noticed them
in 2 sites recently that are no more than a few old scattered Black
Box,boxthorns plus a few windbreaks.These birds have moved a reasonable
distance to get there(a few kms?) and are using what I would have thought as
very marginal habitats. Where was it I read that White-winged Choughs were
in trouble with the opening up of habitat and the subsequent increase in
Magpies?
Cheers,
Simon Starr