There is more information on this sort of thing, although from Canberra,
rather than Melbourne, in my book "Canberra Birds: A Report on the first
21 years of the Garden Bird Survey". I always say I wish Melbourne and
Sydney and everywhere else had started and continually maintained a
survey. Like we have done in Canberra since 1981 (and had someone
willing compile and publish out the results).
Philip Veerman
24 Castley Circuit
Kambah ACT 2902
02 - 62314041
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Subject: Grey Fantail movements (se Aust.)
Importance: High
In responses to Tony Marsh's query regarding Grey Fantails winter
movements, I have the following information.
The recent Friends of French Island National Park (Victoria) trip turned
up literally dozens of fantails a few weeks ago on the island. This was
the greatest number of fantails we had ever seen before and clearly was
associated with the north movements of the species.
There's lots of detail on Grey Fantail movements in the Handbook of
Australian New Zealand and Antarctic Birds (HANZAB) .. here's just some
snippets
HANZAB (Vol. 7, p. 179) under 'Movements' for Grey Fantail:
'East Mainland Aust. & Tasmania. Partly resident and partly migratory
throughout. Strong evidence of N-S movement along whole east coast of
Aust. and Tas. with birds moving N & W for autumn-winter and returning
south to breeding range in spring-summer. Within breeding range in Tas.
&
eastern Aust. often considered partly resident, or recorded throughout
year; in any one area, local populations may be wholly or partly
replaced
or augmented, by migrants from elsewhere' in non-breeding months, also
recorded much more widely than in summer ... '
Departure (p. 180)
'Leave on nth passage in Autumn, usually March-April from Tasmania and
slightly later (April-May) from se mainland.'
'Population migrates across Bass Strait to winter in mainland se Aust.'
cheers, Martin
Martin O'Brien
Wildlife Biologist - Threatened Species & Communities Section
Department of Sustainability and Environment
2/8 Nicholson St.,
East Melbourne 3002
VICTORIA
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