HI RUSS,
IVE GOOGLED TORILLA PLAINS TO ASCERTAIN WHERE EXACTLY IT IS WITH NO LUCK - IS
IT AT MARMOOR OR SOMEWHERE ELSE? WOULD LOVE TO GET UP THERE SOME TIME
CHEERS
DAVID TAYLOR
On 20/01/2010, at 1:48 PM, Russ Lamb wrote:
> The Dec 2009 edition of "The Sunbird" (the journal of the Queensland
> Ornithological Society) contains an article titled "Further discoveries
> extend the range of Capricorn Yellow Chat in coastal Central Queensland",
> authored by Wayne Houston, Roger Jaensch, Robert Black, Rod Elder & Leif
> Black.
>
> Quoting in part from the abstract: " Extensive surveys of marine plain
> wetlands of western Broad Sound and the Fitzroy River Delta, Central Qld
> between 2005 and 2008 identified several new sites and extended the
> documented range of the recently re-discovered Capricon sub-species of Yellow
> Chat ,Epthianura crocea macgregori. All newly discovered sites comprise only
> small portions (less than 300 ha) of much more extensive marine plains. They
> included: two breeding sub-populations and an incidental occurrence of the
> Capricorn Yellow Chat in Western Broad Sound immediately west of its known
> range; two sites (one confirmed breeding sub-population) in the southern
> Delta near to previously documented sites; and the rediscovery of the chat in
> the far north of the Fitzroy Delta, where it was collected over 120 years ago
> in 1882 but not reported since.--------------Despite the increase in known
> sites of occurrence, the population of this critically endangered subspecies
> is estimated at less than 400, the majority within one main area,Torilla
> Plain, with only small numbers (5 to 30) in the remaining sites."
>
> Participants at the BA National Campout in October 2007, ably hosted by BA
> Capricornia , saw Yellow Chats sitting on fences from public roads whilst
> still in their cars.
>
> Russ Lamb, Maleny,SEQ
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