Alan was also asked to reply in confidence but it appears he chose to ignore
that.
ce la vie.
PE
>-- Original Message --
>Subject: RE: [BIRDING-AUS] NSW Hunter Region Birds
>Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 08:32:24 +1100
>From: "Stuart, Alan AD" <>
>To: <>, <>
>Reply-To: "Stuart, Alan AD" <>
>
>
>
>Hi everyone,
>
>
>Perhaps my final posting about the Hunter Region bird list stems from
>Peter Ekert having sent me a copy of the 360 species on his list and so
>I could look at where the differences are.
>
>Peter sent me his list in confidence so I therefore am obliged to
>respect that and so I can't discuss species by name. I can only talk in
>generalities therefore. One notable difference is that whereas he has
>13 Procellariiformes the HBOC list has 36 of them, including some fairly
>common birds such as Black-browed Albatross. So the pelagic birds do
>make a significant difference to the tally. But there are also:
>
>2 x Anserifromes
>1 x Gruiformes
>1 x Turniciformes
>17 x Charadriiformes (and incidentally, just about all of them have been
>recorded within 5km of Newcastle's industrial heartland)
>1 x Coraciiformes
>7 x Passeriformes
>
>And there's one Passeriformes on Peter's list that's not on HBOC's.
>
>I reckon that life, and birding, by being based in the Newcastle, is
>pretty good! I'm really glad to live here. I only have to travel for
>less than 3 hours in any direction to be up for seeing any of the 412
>species (although I do admit that some don't turn up all that often!)
>And this year we have added Radjah Shelduck to the list (i.e. up to 413
>species now) - and maybe there will be others, the year is not yet over.
>
>By the way, on Saturday while doing our monthly wader survey, Ash Island
>was full of birders out looking for Yellow Wagtail. Unfortunately they,
>and also we, dipped out. But there are about 5,000 waders in the Hunter
>estuary at the moment.
>
>Alan
>-----Original Message-----
>From:
> On Behalf Of alan morris
>Sent: Friday, 18 November 2005 1:12 PM
>To:
>Subject: [BIRDING-AUS] NSW Hunter Region Birds
>
>Hi Birders,
>
>Not wishing to enter into controversies about the Hunter Region Birds, I
>
>would point out that the 2002 Hunter Annual Bird Report lists 387
>species
>
>seen in the past 10 year, which could be part of the source of "400"
>
>species for the Hunter Region. If you add about 10 additional new
>seabirds
>
>species seen on offshore pelagic trips 2003-2005, that would bring you
>close
>
>to 400. I am only guessing that there were 10 new species, there may
>have
>
>been more!
>
>Alan Morris
>
>
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