Hello
To answer Peter?s query about how plains-wanderers are faring around
the Deniliquin district: All of my plains-wanderers sightings are
posted on my website?s Latest News page. It is quite possible that the
sighting at the WTP came from northern Victoria but this species can
also be found occasionally on the basalt plains to the west of
Melbourne. Here in southern NSW plains-wanderers are doing okay. We
have not had the broad scale flooding of northern Victoria; we have
just had glorious rain. Most of the plains-wanderer nests I knew about
would have been inundated in the heavy rain events of November and
some birds were forced to higher ground. Birds re-nested in December
but seemed to have fewer chicks than they normally would ? one or two
rather than three or four.
Numbers of adult birds are quite high and many are back in paddocks
they have not been in for four or five years. Plains-wanderers are
wonderfully resilient and will continue to breed through the autumn
and into early winter.
So while the current dense ground cover and occasional inundation is
not what plains-wanderers prefer ? they prefer average years or
slightly below average years ? this year has been a Godsend for them
after so many bad years.
Little and red-chested buttonquail and stubble quail are thriving in
the current conditions; I saw fifteen red-chested just two nights ago.
Flooding rain beats a crippling drought in this district any day.
Cheers
Philip Maher
www.philipmaher.com
Quoting :
With the sprawling flood waters in Northern Victoria, i wondered about the
affect they'd be having on Plains Wanderer populations in Northern
Victoria/Southern NSW.
Is anyone able to report on this? Has the Terrick grassplains been
innudated with water? How about other areas such as around Deniliquin?
I assume this plains wanderer sighting at the WTP may be an evacue???
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