Hi Graeme
Thanks for looking this up. I believe there are still people around who can
recall discussing this incident with David. Not me, unfortunately, as he was
a childhood hero of mine. I did meet him at his sanctuary on the Gold Coast
once. He was always very generous with his time to anyone interested in
natural history. Greatly missed.
Regards
Andrew
From: Graeme Stevens
Sent: Saturday, 15 May 2010 5:19 PM
To: ;
Subject: marbled frogmouth musings
The reference I can find Andrew is p 150 of his "Nightwatchmen of Bush and
Plain" 1968:
"A Frogmouth-like call that I tried to trace in the dead of night in thick
scrub at Kin Kin (Gympie district, Queensland) has always worried me, for it
was far from typical of the Tawny species."
In this passage he was discussing the distribution of what had previously
been considered separate species (Marbled of N Qld and Plumed of S E Qld and
N E NSW.
Like most of David's books, a great read.
Cheers
Graeme
> From:
> To:
> Subject: RE: [Birding-Aus] marbled frogmouth musings
> Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 14:31:30 +1000
>
> Hi Greg
> I have a recollection that David Fleay reported hearing Marbled frogmouths
> in the Kin Kin area in the 1960s. I think this reference is in one of his
> books? Happy to be corrected on that.
>
> Could the use of "playback" be a factor in increasing reports?
>
> Regards
> Andrew
>
> > From: "Greg Roberts" <>
> > Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 20:41:04 +1000
> > To: <>
> > Subject: [Birding-Aus] marbled frogmouth musings
> >
> > This evening I had a pair of Marbled Frogmouths in the Mapleton Forest
> > Reserve in the Sunshine Coast hinterland. The birds were quite vocal
given
> > the time of year.
> > This is the seventh pair of Marbled Frogmouths I've found in the
Blackall
> > Range since last October, at six different sites.
> > When I found the plumiferus race of Marbled Frogmouth in the Conondale
> > Range, not far from here, in 1976, the subspecies - restricted to
> southeast
> > Queensland and northeast NSW - had not been seen for several decades;
its
> > call was unknown. It is hard to believe now that the frogmouth went
> > undetected for so long, especially given its unsual and amply audible
> > vocalisations. Yet prior to the 1976 discovery, I and birding colleagues
> > such as Chris Corben and Glen Ingram spent many a night camped in
suitable
> > habitat, including several times at the site where I found them, without
> any
> > sign of Marbled Frogmouths. The same can be said for many other
observers,
> > even though nocturnal birding back then was a bit of a niche market and
> not
> > as popular as it is now.
> > There are only two explanations. Either it was case of extraordinary
> chance
> > that the birds were overlooked, or for some unknown reason, the
population
> > increased shortly before or during the mid-1970s. If the latter, there
may
> > be a glimmer of hope yet for the frog Rheobatrachus silus and Coxen's
> > Fig-Parrot, among other lost critters.
> > Greg Roberts
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