Anyone got a collective noun for Wedge-tailed Eagles?
Many (30+) years ago I was inspecting an area out Charleville way for
possible reservation as a national park. Sandstone country with
spectacular
gorges. I sought access through an adjoining grazing property and the
lessee kindly drove me to the rim of the very large gorge that was the
boundary of his property. (Porcupine Ck gorge, maybe. My memory is
a bit
hazy now.)
But what I do remember very clearly is that we were nearly to the
rim of the
gorge when my host spotted a Wedge-tailed Eagle perched in a low
tree. He
immediately stopped and shot at it with his rifle.
I was delighted that he missed and the eagle flew off unharmed. I
was even
more delighted a few minutes later to look over the gorge and see a
large
number of Wedgies wheeling around in the gorge; twenty or thirty or
so, I
guess. Flock? Don't think so. "Squadron" maybe? :-)
Cheers
Syd
From: Alan McBride <>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:48:08 +1000
To: bob gosford <>
Cc: NT Birds group <>, "Birding-Aus \(Forum\)"
<>
Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Spotted Harrier over Alice Springs -
Eastside
Hi Bob,
I think I'd prefer "a rash of Spotted Harriers" ;-)
Alan
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On 30/08/2010, at 18:46 , bob gosford wrote:
After Christopher Watson and I saw a mob (a collective noun for a
lot of
Spotted Harriers please!) of Spotted Harriers (and a pair of Swamp
Harriers
near the airport) on our long days drive around greater Alice
Springs last
Friday I'd just like to note that I spotted (geddit!?) a single
Spotted
Harrier at some distance and height soaring over Eastside in Alice
Springs
this morning.
Black wing-tips and elevated dihedral - and recent sightings give
me a
reasonable degree of certainty - which I hope to confirm over the
next few
days.
Any other inner suburban sightings in Alice Springs welcome.
And I'll be keeping eyes and ears open for the first Channel-billed
Cuckoo
reports in Alice Springs - or Darwin, Katherine and points in
between - over
the coming weeks. I note that there was report on Birding-Aus
earlier today
of a C-bC on the NSW mid-north coast earlier today.
Cheers from an ornithologically abundant red centre...
--
Bob Gosford
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