According to Mike, this "Altona" flock of up to 19 APS were at "Dairy Swamp,
Laverton" (Victoria) in 1951. Does anyone know where Dairy Swamp might have
been?
Peter Shute
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> Mike Honeyman
> Sent: Sunday, 6 November 2011 5:39 PM
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> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Australian Painted Snipe
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> 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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