Too many zeros Laurie.
Tony
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On Behalf Of Laurie Knight
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 10:21 PM
To: birding-aus
Subject: Congratulations to Jack Moorhead on reaching
700Australian birds
I don't know if anyone has ever kept a record, but it is highly likely
that Jack is the youngest person by many years to see 700 species of
birds in Australian territory. I wasn't expecting him to reach that
figure before his fifteenth birthday.
In the longer term, a decision for Jack will be whether he wants to
chase a world bird list. Psychologically, world bird listing is a
"different league". There are also some species that require travel
into significantly more hazardous locations than one might find in
Australia [e.g. violent locals].
Has any Australian cracked the 7000 species mark [to pluck a figure
out of the air]?
Regards, Laurie.
On 12/01/2010, at 12:43 PM, jenny spry wrote:
> And my congratulations too. The great thing about it is, he is a
> really nice
> person as well. And it is not just the birds, he also knows his
> butterflies,
> moths and reptiles (even the rare ones that turn up only on small
> Torres
> Strait islands) just about as well.
>
> Congratulations to the GM too who now passed 750. I wonder though,
> how long
> before the Lesser becomes greater than the Greater? Now wont that be a
> tussle to watch (smile).
>
> Jenny
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Nev Capell <> wrote:
>
>> Hi, I'd like to add my congratulations to Jack. I've birded and
>> done wader
>> surveys with Jack, and Bill, and am past being amazed at his
>> knowledge.
>> Which means I've been able to twitch both the Greater and Lesser
>> Moorheads
>> :)
>>
>> Cheers, Nev Capell
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Peter Marsh <>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Birders,
>>> It is with great pleasure that I joined Bill Moorhead his 13 year
>>> old
>> son,
>>> Jack, and friend Karen Blake on an attempt to find Scarlet-chested
>>> Parrot
>> in
>>> mallee country north of Ceduna S. A.. The search was unsuccessful
>>> but
>> during
>>> the trip young Jack caught up with his 700th Australian bird. It
>>> was a
>> great
>>> achievement for Jack and achieved only after a pretty hard week of
>> birding
>>> when the daytime maximum each day was in the mid 40's with a high
>>> on at
>>> least 2 days of 47 degrees.
>>>
>>> When I joined the others in Port Augusta Jack was on 699 - they
>>> had been
>>> birding for 10 days during which time Jack had seen 10 new
>>> birds.We all
>>> hoped that the Scarlet-chested Parrot would be Jack's 700th but it
>>> was
>> not
>>> to be. We saw a good suite of birds in Yumbarra Conservation Park
>> including
>>> a number of Western Yellow Robin and Pied Honeyeater.
>>> Unfortunately after
>> 3
>>> days of intensive birding we saw no signs of SCP. On our return we
>>> spent
>> a
>>> few very hot hours in Lake Gilies Conservation Park looking for
>>> Slender-billed Thornbill that would have been a new bird for Jack.
>>> Again
>> it
>>> was not to be. It appeared that the birding gods were determined
>>> that
>> Jack
>>> would have to suffer the indignity of recording Barbary Dove as his
>> 700th,
>>> in penance for his precociousness! In an attempt to avoid this
>>> indignity
>> we
>>> drove to Stokes Hill Lookout in the Flinders Ranges to look for
>> Short-tailed
>>> Grasswren. A few hours of early morning birding produced nothing.
>>>
>>> With few other options we drove to Salisbury Downs just north of
>>> Adelaide
>>> where after a few minutes of wandering around a Barbary Dove was
>>> found
>>> sitting on a power pole. The birding gods had delivered their
>>> "sucker
>> punch"
>>> and Jack was 700!
>>>
>>> The mere quantum of birds is to my perspective less significant
>>> than the
>>> very impressive birding skills that Jack has acquired along the
>>> way. He
>> has
>>> been lucky to have had dad, Bill (an keen and talented twitcher),
>>> helping
>>> but in the last few years Jack has developed an incredibly keen
>>> eye and
>> an
>>> enviable knowledge of bird calls. I was privileged to see this
>>> young man
>>> exhibit all of these skills and more as he very maturely waited
>>> for the
>>> 700th to come along. He accepted the judgement of the birding gods
>>> with
>>> equanimity - no doubt appreciative of the fact that he has many
>>> years
>> ahead
>>> of him in which to find the SCP et al.
>>>
>>> Congratulations Jack.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Peter Marsh
>>> www.birding-aus.org
>>> birding-aus.blogspot.com
>>>
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