Laurie,
I can remember some domestic birds out of range that seemed to get
people moving...
Northern Shoveller; I can't remember where, but NSW north coast
somewhere north of Kempsey
Little Bittern at the Golf Course in East Sydney
And the Powerful Owl at the Sydney Museum was popular.
Evan
On 6/4/07, Russell Woodford <> wrote:
Well Laurie, I don't think you can make a causal link between BIrding-
Aus and the size of a twitch, although I do think that getting the
information around to a bigger audience has probably had some
effect. The hard-core twitchers, the ones who have been to see
several of these, would have heard about the birds on the "old"
grapevines, and probably just as quickly, but I guess that there have
been others pulled along by reading the news online. Not sure I'd go
as far as "chain reaction", but it's nice to think that birding is
one of the many things that have become more democratic thanks to the
Internet.
Is the Grass Owl at the Western Treatment Plant (Werribee, VIC)
enough of a rarity to make this list? I hope so - it's the only one
I've been able to see!
Cheers
Russell
On 04/06/2007, at 8:29 PM, L&L Knight wrote:
> G'day
>
> I'm putting together a list of rare-bird twitches that grew out of
> postings on Birding-Aus in the last 12 months for a conference
> paper. These are instances where a rare-birding sighting in
> Birding-Aus has caused a chain reaction of twitchers travelling to
> that site to sight the bird in question. [The GHL was the classic
> case in point. ]
>
> What other birds should I add to the following list?
>
>
> June 2006, Grey-headed Lapwing, Burren Junction
>
> August 2006, Sabine's Gull, Derby
>
> Sept 2006 Antarctic Terns, Kangaroo Island
>
> Oct 2006 Spotted Redshank, Broome
>
> March 2007 Javan Pond Heron, Darwin
>
> March 2007 Laughing Gull, Cairns
>
> May 2007 Black-tailed Gull, Geraldton
>
> May 2007 Red-legged Crake, Whim Ck
>
>
> Regards, Laurie.
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