G'day Dave,
Nice report, sounds like you had a decent trip. It might interest you (& others
planning a similar trip) to know that the Red-tailed Tropicbird colony at
Sugarloaf Rock appears all but abandoned, so it's not surprising that you
dipped! The number of birds using the colony fell for a while, then for the
past few years no birds bred there at all as far as I know. A single bird was
reported a couple of times in the area last year, so you may be lucky, but
unfortunately at present I don't think it can be called a reliable site anymore
(although I'd love to be corrected!)
Cheers,
John
> Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 09:26:56 +1100
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> Subject: [Birding-Aus] WA trip report
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> I have recently come back from 13 days in WA (Perth-Cheyne Beach-Cape
> Leeuwin- Perth-Monkey Mia) with some friends. Despite some fairly wet and
> windy weather we found most of the birds we were after, although we dipped
> on Rock Parrot and Tropicbird.
> The trip report is at
> http://www.boca.org.au/come-birding/trip-reports/34-west-australia/274-wa-sept-2011-dave-torr-et-al
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