Hi Birders,
Linda Hyde's note on a Superb Fruit-Dove being found in the Blue Mountains
at Blaxland is of interest and certainly I am unaware of any previous
records for the Blue Mountains. Not that Blaxland is high up in the
Mountains but as a geographical area, there are no known records.
Superb Fruit-Doves have only been confirmed nesting in Northern Rivers
Region of NSW yet each autumn (March-May, with May the most favoured month),
but also occasionally commencing in February, small numbers move south along
the NSW coast visiting pockets of rainforest and wet gullies on route, all
the way to the Victorian border. Generally these birds are immatures, often
only seemingly recently fledged however adult birds also occur but in lesser
numbers. In some years up to 10 records may be reported from the Central
Coast to the Far South Coast, in other years only one or two records.
Generally in February most records are for birds still found in their
preferred habitat of rainforest in the Northern Rivers Region, however one
flew into a window in Wollongong Feb 1993, F hit window North Nowra
25/2/1997, a male, Wattle Flat Royal NP 3/2/2002 & there was one at Jamberoo
Mountain (Illawarra) 12/2/2003. In fact about 40% of these southern records
are for birds that have flown into windows and or found injured in house
gardens or yards where they probably flew into windows.
So the Blaxland bird's presence is consistent with previous records for this
species in south eastern NSW.
Alan Morris
Editor, NSW Bird Reports
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