Hi Phil,
I will send your email around several of the very keen birding rangers we
have up here and get you some more info. Last week ,there was a grey
honeyeater at Whislteduck Creek in the Davenport Ranges, about 400km from
A/Springs. You need 4WD access to get in there, though.
I can recommend the following sites for general birding around Alice:
A/Springs (famous!) sewer ponds
Olive Pink Botanical Gardens, right in town.
Kunoth Bore (on the Tanami Rd, about 50km north of town)
Wigley's Waterhole (in the Alice Springs Telegraph Stn Reserve, only 10km
from town)
Anna's Reservoir (110km north of town - reserve is open to the public, but
needs permission for access as you have to drive across a pastoral property
to get there. Contact me for details).
Owen Springs Waterhole (50km west of town - once again, this is on a reserve
that's open to the public, but you need to contact the head ranger out there
to access the waterhole.)
If you haven't already been there, you must go to the Alice Springs Desert
Park before you go out bush anywhere. This place is a living natural history
museum; it takes you throug all of the common habitats you'll find in
Central Australia. There are a number of avaries (some walk through
habitats).
Hope this is helpful.
At present, there are loads of rufous & brown songlarks about, flocks of
budgies everywhere out bush, three channel-billed cuckoos squawking about
town, grey-crowned babblers etc.
Cheers
Amanda Markham
Anthropologist
Parks & Wildlife Service
Department of Natural Resources, Environment and the Arts
PO Box 1120
Alice Springs NT 0871
ph. 08 8951 8207
fax 08 8951 8290
From: Phil Hansbro <>
Reply-To: Phil Hansbro <>
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Subject: [BIRDING-AUS] RFI Grey HE, Dusky GW, RCE-Wren in Alice
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 17:31:13 +1100
Hi All
I will be going to Alice at the end of March and I am really keen to see
Grey Honeyeater, Dusky Grasswren and Rufous-crowned Emu-Wren.
Has anyone seen them there and if so would you be able to give me some
sites, especially recent sites.
Thanks very much for any replies.
Phil.
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