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2008/9/30 Lawrie Conole <>
> Anglicised (mangled) local Aboriginal name - something more like Yarwang-i.
> Just east of the township of Little River - not far from the famed Western
> Treatment Complex (Werribee sewage farm) - about 20km towards Melbourne
> from
> Geelong.
>
> Great woodland birding ...
>
> 2008/9/30 Tony Russell <>
>
> > Would anybody care to advise us where this "You Yangs" place is ? Weird
> > sort of name .
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:
> > On Behalf Of Paul Dodd
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 9:31 AM
> > To: 'Margaret Cameron'
> > Cc: ; 'Graeme Brown'; 'Lawrie Conole'; 'Marilyn
> > & Dean'
> > Subject: [Birding-Aus] RE: White-browed Babbler at The You Yangs,
> > Victoria
> >
> >
> > Hi Margaret,
> >
> > Thanks for the email.
> >
> > I would be happy to write up the sighting, but without a photograph or a
> > second independent sighting the best that could ever be hoped for is
> > that it is noted as an unconfirmed report (or as Lawrie so elegantly put
> > it, unreliable).
> >
> > I know that this sighting has piqued the interest of a number of
> > birders, so hopefully there will be either more observations or a
> > photograph or two. I must admit that I'm kicking myself, because both
> > Ruth and I had our cameras with long lenses, but we both thought that
> > the photographs of the babblers would have been at too large a distance
> > to make "good" photographs, not quite realising the significance of the
> > sighting at the time. We were certainly aware that the babblers were out
> > of their normal range, but we assumed at the time that there would have
> > been more frequent sightings in the area. In addition, I left my GPS in
> > the car, so didn't get an exact fix on the location.
> >
> > I think that another visit or two to the site, with cameras at the
> > ready, and the GPS on hand will be in order. Perhaps then there'll be an
> > article worth writing.
> >
> > Paul Dodd
> > Docklands, Victoria
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Margaret Cameron
> > Sent: Monday, 29 September 2008 10:23 PM
> > To: Paul Dodd; 'Lawrie Conole'; 'Birding Aus'
> > Cc: Marilyn & Dean
> > Subject: White-browed Babbler at The You Yangs, Victoria
> >
> > 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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