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Subject: [BIRDING-AUS] Western NSW Inland
Dotterel and Aust Pratincole
Hi Chris and Birding-aussers,
Colin Scouler and I saw a flock of 13+ (I counted
13 but there were probably more) Inland Dotterel on a grazing property just
off the Cobb Highway north of Deniliquin on the 25-4-2003. We went there to
view Letter-winged Kite and my memory is the owner did not consider the nunber
excessive. We saw them late A.M.
Bruce Cox.
Birding-Aussies
My brother told me this morning that he has seen
2 groups of Inland Dotterels, about a dozen in each, in his front paddock
(9000ac!) near Bourke, NSW. More than the usual resident group of 6 or so.
What made them obvious was that they were easily seen in the daylight when
they are rarely observed. Mixed in with them was about 10 or so Aust
Pratincoles; a first for his property.
The more unusual sighting for him was a very
"yellow looking Ringneck". Still had the red over the top of the beak,
but not green, just basically a yellow version.
Is this known as leucistic, and how rare in
the wild?
Chris
Warwick QLD
