Mike, do you know where this flock in Altona was hanging out? It would be
interesting to see if this was possible again, now that housing is so much
closer to the habitat than it was even ten years ago.
Peter Shute
> -----Original Message-----
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> Mike Honeyman
> Sent: Sunday, 6 November 2011 5:39 PM
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> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Australian Painted Snipe
>
> Hi Keith / all
>
> A good year indeed!
> I've been helping on a project going back through historic
> records of
> APS sightings recently, and it is noticeable that this scarce
> species
> has always had intermittent good years following seasons of good
> rainfall, after which it largely disappears again.
> Decades ago the good years occasionally saw post breeding flocks of
> 10-20 birds (APS are polyandrous so one female can foist a
> brood on a
> couple of males!) which would be amazing if it were to happen again.
> Especially if a flock hangs around Altona like they did about fifty
> years ago!
>
> mjh
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