Torilla Plains is about 150-200 km north of Marmor on the Torilla
Peninsula. Looks like you turn off the Bruce at Kunwarara, past Tilpal,
Banksia, and before Waratah properties. It shows on my RACQ map - Rocky,
Mackay, Gladstone.
Tony
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From:
On Behalf Of david taylor
Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 3:11 PM
To: Russ Lamb
Cc: Birding Aus
Subject: RFI: Yellow Chats at Marmor Queensland
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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