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Re: Pilotbirds in the Wollemi Wilderness

To: Mick Roderick <>,
Subject: Re: Pilotbirds in the Wollemi Wilderness
From: Carol Probets <>
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 23:55:17 +1000
Mick,

I've also recorded Pilotbirds in a number of locations in the Wollemi. From memory the furthest north I've found them is Mt Kerry which is another basalt cap, about 10km north of Mt Coricudgy.

Cheers
Carol


At 6:05 PM +1000 5/10/05, Mick Roderick wrote:
Hi David,

We were on the Hunter Main Trail (a wilderness fire trail managed for walkers only or on bicycle by permission...but you end up walking quite a bit even if you are on bicycle!). Yes, I wasn't surprised to find several Pilotbirds in the basalt cap of Coricudgy (as well as Monundilla, which I think is also another big basalt island...much more engulfed by sandstone than Coricudgy even).

But we encountered Pilotbirds in the majority of wetter sandstone gully areas, generally where tall wet sclerophyll forests prevailed. So they are definitely not restricted to the basalt stuff. I think you're correct about them being more common than we realise in large reserves...and the same goes for many species, including things like Masked and Barking Owls I would imagine. If a 'living fossil' tree can remain undiscovered for so long, there must be fauna in there that has evaded science too (a new bird species in Wollemi/Yengo, now there's an exciting prospect!!).

Paul / Irene - that record from the Watagans is very interesting, thanx - i know exactly where you're talking about too, time for a stake-out.

I look forward to other info from anyone else on this topic.

Thanx again,

Mick Roderick

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