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New Grasswren Species

To: David Stowe <>
Subject: New Grasswren Species
From: David Stowe <>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 19:35:01 +1100
On the Owl topic - i should have checked the link on Tony's page before i asked 
the question of course

http://www.worldbirdnames.org/n-owls.html

Footnote about the Ninox owls simply says "Restore traditional name".
A small thing, but i can't tell you how happy that makes me! Couldn't stand 
saying Powerful Boobook!.
I assume this change was made due to outcry from somewhere? Who cries and who 
listens in these debates?

Cheers
David Stowe


On 21/11/2011, at 7:30 PM, David Stowe wrote:

> Great report thanks Richard - sounds like a great place to visit! Love to add 
> a couple more Grasswrens to my poor list!
> 
> On the topic of checklists - does this mean that birders have fully accepted 
> the IOC list as the new C&B? Love to hear everyone's thoughts on this in 
> order to keep up with the times so to speak :)
> 
> Also doesn't the IOC list name Powerful Owl etc as Powerful Boobook? I notice 
> on Tony's list that he still has "Owl".
> 
> Cheers
> David Stowe
> 
> On 21/11/2011, at 7:19 PM, Richard Baxter wrote:
> 
>> Hello all,
>>            With the recent release of the new 2011 Australian Birdlist, 
>> which includes several updates from the 2008 list, I found myself needing 
>> another grasswren.  The newly split Thick-billed GrasswrenAmytornismodestus( 
>> Gawler Ranges SA etc).  
>> 
>> I'd only previously seenA textilis, which is now called Western Grasswren 
>> from Shark Bay, Monkey Mia etc.
>> 
>> Having a couple days spare after seeing the Hoopoe in Broome I decided to 
>> head down to Mt Ive Station in the Gawler Ranges.  Mt Ive is about seven 
>> hours drive from Adelaide Airport and with dry roads can be reached with a 
>> 2WD or SUV quite easily.  
>> 
>> Birdlife in general wasn't all that abundant, with most of the species seen 
>> at the station visible on the drive in.  Despite the general lack of birds, 
>> the Grasswren were plentiful.  I stayed in the stone cottage and had seen 
>> modestuswithin minutes of arriving and within 100m of my accommodation.  I 
>> walked down the side of the main dam, adjacent to the runway.  At the back 
>> of the dam wall there was a depression, which although dry, obviously often 
>> holds water.  A quick squeak and out popped three grasswren.
>> 
>> The other species on the property and also close to the accommodation is the 
>> A.m.pedleri sub species of Short-tailed Grasswren.   To see this I parked at 
>> the base of Mt-Ive and walked straight up the hill to the aerial.  I saw two 
>> birds on the way up and a further three on the top.  Again, very easy to see.
>> 
>> This ssp is very different in appearance to the Flinder's Ranges race.
>> 
>> Note: The new 2011 Australian Birdlist download Excel version is on Tony 
>> Palliser's Birder's Total webpage.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Richard Baxter
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