G'day everyone,
About a month ago I was birding in the Kamarooka forest north of Bendigo in
central Victoria, specifically looking for Purple-gaped Honeyeaters which had
been proving hard to find. I finally found a small group of them along
Burnside road less than a km east of the main Bendigo-Tennyson road. They were
on the south side of the road in low heath with scattered Yellow Gums which
were flowering quite well. Whilst there I spotted a small honeyeater with a
longish curved bill, basically brown, with some yellow/green in the wing. At
the time I felt sure that I was onto something very unusual for the area, and
with the few fleeting glimpses that I got of the bird, could only guess at it
being a Brown Honeyeater. However because of the very brief views ( not quite
id clinching ) I put it down to experience.
I've seen plenty of Brown Honeyeaters in previous years, on various trips
further north in Oz, but having just recently returned from a trip up through
western NSW, where I saw a Brown Honeyeater at Mutawintji, I'm now feeling that
the Bendigo bird really had to be one too.
I notice that "Moot" is very much at the edge of their range, they may be semi
regular there, I'm not sure. Hanzab certainly mentions them being seen there.
However they are extremely rare in Victoria. Hanzab lists one unconfirmed
sighting near Red Cliffs in Sept 1994.
The new atlas of Australian birds has a dot on the map for Victoria, somewhere
in the Swan Hill district by the look of it ( the same sighting?).
I would be interested in any info on Victorian records of Brown Honeyeater .
I wont be formally submitting my sighting as my views were not quite long
enough, but I now feel quite sure in myself that what I saw was a Brown
Honeyeater.
Happy birding ,
Simon Starr,
Pyramid Hill,
Northern Victoria.
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