Thanks, John, for taking the trouble to write such a detailed,
comprehensive answer. These are the sort of replies that make the
birding-aus archive so valuable.
Evan probably won't need a Tassie field guide now - but there are a
few titles.
Field Guide to Tasmanian Birds
By Dave Watts
Published by New Holland, 2000
ISBN 1864364807, 9781864364804
192 pages
The best and most up-to-date book as far as I know, and probably the
easiest to find.
A Guide to the Birds of Tasmania
By Michael Sharland, Michael Stanley Reid Sharland, Jane Burrel
Published by Drinkwater, 1981
ISBN 0949903035, 9780949903037
172 pages
I think this is a significant revision of the classic work from 1945 /
1959.
Birds of Tasmania: An Annotated Checklist with Photographs
By Robert Hewett Green
Published by Potoroo Pub, 1977
4th ed 1993
ISBN 0959921311, 9780959921311
84 pages
This is a handy small paperback with information on all birds recorded
on Tasmania and King Island, Furneaux Group and Macquarie Island -
note that Macquarie is a long way from Hobart - don't expect to see
King Shag or South Polar Skua swimming around Constitution Dock just
because they're in the book!
Russell Woodford
Birding-Aus List Owner
Geelong Victoria Australia
http://www.birding-aus.org
On 06/11/2008, at 3:26 PM, John Tongue wrote:
G'day Evan,
Tassie Endemics:
-Native Hen (almost any gullies/waterways with open pasture nearby
-Green Rosella - most woodland/forest areas
-Black-headed Honeyeater - Ditto
-Strong-billed Honeyeater - most woodlands, but tend to favour more
open and drier ones that Black-heads
-Yellow-throated Honeyeater - most woodlands, forests, etc.
-Yellow Wattlebird - open woodland/forest, but mostly restricted to
South and East (though also on King Island)
-Dusky Robin - open farmland/woodland, etc.
-Tasmanian Scrubwren - most dense forest/scrubs/rainforest
-Tasmanian Thornbill - wet Sclerophyll/Rainforest with dense
undergrowth
-Scrubtit - ditto
-Black Currawong - highland areas - Mt Wellington, Cradle Mountain,
etc. though sometimes in lower country too - Tasman Peninsula,
Meehan Range, King Island
-Forty-spotted Pardalote - restricted range - Peter Murrell Reserve
between Kingston and Margate - especially around dams on Coffee
Creek, in the north of the reserve. Also on Bruny Island (almost
any Euc. viminalis woodland in north or south Bruny), Maria Island,
especially on walks to Bishop and Clerk, or the reservoir)
For Pelagics out of St. Helens, contact Ian May to see what he has
planned
The places you're heading should give you a good range. Where else
depends on what you're really looking for. Bruny Island should give
you all the Endemics (Scrubtit and Tas Thornbill could still be
tricky) in a contained area.
If I can be of further help.........
Cheers,
John Tongue
Ulverstone, Tas.
On 06/11/2008, at 12:39 PM, Evan Beaver wrote:
Birders,
I'm off to Tassie for 2 weeks over Christmas for a climbing trip.
It's
also a good opportunity for me to pick up the Tassie endemics and
southern species I don't have yet. Has anyone got a list of the
endemics? I can't find one on the net.
Also, are there any pelagics planned over Christmas/New Year? I had a
vague memory of an eaglehawk pelagic early january but can't find any
info.
Planning on heading to Freycinet for a few days to start. Then if
there's a break in the weather we'll crack out to Mt Geryon in the
centre to get seriously scared, but in beautiful scenery. Then we'll
probably head down to Cape Raoul and Port Arthur for a few days to
finish it off. Any particular birding spots I should check out on the
way?
EB
--
Evan Beaver
Lapstone, Blue Mountains, NSW
lat=-33.77, lon=150.64
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