Hello Paul, Graeme etc
This is a significant record. White-browed babblers have been considered
extinct in the area for over 60 years, having been last reported in the You
Yangs in the 1930s (HANZAB). There are no records as far as I know in the
annual Geelong Bird Report (1984 on), nor in the Atlas (and no-one reported
them on any of the hundreds of Atlas sheets for the Geelong region that I
read).
Paul, you have done the right thing by reporting your rare bird. Your
message says "from the other responses I've had, it appears that babblers
are an infrequent visitor to the You Yangs. Certainly not common, but
definitely not unheard of."
It would be really helpful if people who saw unusual birds like this did
report them. As far as I know, they are "unheard of" by local birdwatchers -
at any rate by me but I have not been there for 4 years. An Atlas form for
an Incidental search and an Unusual Record Report Form would be one way to
do it. A photograph would be excellent.
As rare birds editor for Australian Field Ornithology I would welcome a
paper about these recent records but I would really like a photograph to go
with it.
Margaret Cameron
2 Cintra Street
Eastern Heights, Qld
Australia 4305
07 3282 9151
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