Are there olive whistlers in the Southern Highlands of NSW? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Andrew Taylor <>]

On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 09:32:06AM +1100,  wrote:
> I also have two old (probable) records from the Tinderry
> Range and on Mt Kanangra in Kanangra-Boyd NP.

The Kanagara record is very interesting. There is an old breeding record
(1923) for Mount Wilson further north in the Blue Mountains but Carol
Probets wrote here some time ago that Olive Whistler doesn't seem to have
been recorded in recent decades from the Blue Mountains.  Schodde&Mason in
the Directory of Australian Birds - suggest the type locality is probably
the Blue Mountains. S&M split the southern NSW and northern NSW population
into separate subspecies.  DNA analysis would be interesting.

Andrew