On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 09:40:39PM +1000, Greg Clancy wrote:
> I grew up at Woolooware, in southern Sydney, and found the
> White-plumed Honeyeater the most common resident honeyeater there. I
> am sure that it is still common at Wooloware and Cronulla. It is only
> a rare vagrant (drought related?) to the Clarence Valley, in Northern
> New South Wales, where I have had only two records (both in the early
> 1980's), one at South Grafton and one in Newfoundland State Forest.
> Russell Jago has had a couple of local records also.
According to Birds of Sydney, the first breeding White-plumed HE record
for Sydney was 1948 and before then it was a "straggler" to Sydney.
So their abundance has changed greatly since then. My impression is the
like, Crested Pigeons, its abundance has still being changing in the the
last 10-20 years. I remember the White-plumed HEs at Sydney Airport, one
of the first bird you could show to a visitor, used to be a novelty for
inner Sydney. They still seem patchy across inner Sydney to me, seemingly
favouring the street trees of the most urban and least vegetated areas.
Andrew
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