Are they anything to do with Michael Leunig (or is he only a Melbourne
cartoonist?)
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 04:01:30 +1100, Edwin Vella <> wrote:
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> Has anybody seen a Curly Sandpiper before??? Is this a new species for
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> I read the following article today in the ABC News website.
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> Don't you just like the media when they get bird names incorrect!
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> Last Update: Monday, January 17, 2005. 10:47am (AEDT)
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> Bird numbers at the Coorong drop
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> A dire warning has been issued about the health of the Coorong in South
> Australia and the number of water birds that migrate annually to the
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> Adelaide University ecologist Dr David Patton has been in the area studying
> migratory wading bird numbers and their food supply for his Earthwatch
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> He has monitored the Coorong for years and says water birds are disappearing
> because of a lack of flows down the Murray and the condition of the mouth.
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> "Species like Curly sandpipers in the 1980s had population sizes of around
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> "For the last two or three years it's barely 2,000 of these birds [that] can
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> "In terms of other species that have shown dramatic decline, fairy turns in
> the 1980s and 1990s was about 1,500. In the last couple of years it's been
> less than 200 of these birds present in the Coorong."
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