Hi Everyone,
I just phoned the AQIS officer at Esperance for more information, at Simon's
request. Apparently the bird was found on board a tug boat and not on land
when it was found. However, the tug boat was in port and was only about 5 m
from land. So people can make up their own minds as to whether the bird was
ship-assisted to Esperance, underwent reverse migration or both.
Stephen Ambrose
Ryde NSW
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Ambrose
Sent: Wednesday, 13 July 2011 4:52 PM
To: 'Simon Mustoe'; ;
Subject: Provenance of the ex-Siberian Thrush
There seems to be a discrepancy here. Mike Carter reported on Birding-aus on
29 June that the specimen was found on a tug at Esperance:
BIRDING-AUS" <>
Subject: SIBERIAN THRUSH, has this long overdue vagrant finally made it to
Australia?
From: "Mike Carter" <>
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 18:51:49 +1000
"From photographs of a bird found dead on the Esperance (WA) tug on 20 June
2011, we may finally have an Australian record of the long overdue SIBERIAN
THRUSH!"
It would be useful to know which version of events is right.
Stephen Ambrose
Ryde NSW
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Sent: Wednesday, 13 July 2011 9:30 AM
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Subject: Provenance of the ex-Siberian Thrush
Hi,
I didn't speculate on ship assistance, mainly because the bird should be in
Siberia right now. It's not all that likely that it would have made landfall
in Esperance, even if it had been ship-assisted.
Further, it wasn't found on a ship. The details are sketchy but AQIS
informed me it was picked up on land.
Regards,
Simon.
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