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Common Koel - range expansion to Victoria?

To: "Wendy" <>, "Philip Veerman" <>, "Lawrie Conole" <>
Subject: Common Koel - range expansion to Victoria?
From: "Colin R" <>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:17:38 +1000
Hi
This is not particularly unusual as a number of species appear to do the
same thing. They must either pass at night, overwinter or, most likely
in my opinion, move south further inland, possibly, I suspect, along the
Great Dividing range using that for cover, direction and support. If you
think about it there is no real CONTINUOUS 'cover' for a lot of bush
type species along the coast. What still challengs my patience is birds
such as Wagtails that persist in arriving (?) in places like Newcastle
without a squeak in SEQ!!

One day, mate, one day.......

Cheers

Colin


On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:10:31 +1000, "Wendy" <>
said:
> I find it particularly interesting that, while our northern (Qld, Sydney
> and
> North, NSW) contributors are starting their annual 'Koel arrived'
> reports,
> Birdline VICTORIA reported a Koel arriving in Ocean Grove (very S
> Victoria)
> in the first week of May. Further reports of the bird 16 and 23 Sept.
> I presume, barring human intervention, this bird has been resident
> somewhere
> down south all year?
> Or did it just do a very fast trip from up North all the way to Ocean
> Grove?
> Before the SEQ and NSW lot turned up in those areas?
> Wendy
> 
> 



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