In my Samford yard SEQ White-eared Monarch are year round resident, although
they go quiet in the Fall and early Winter but I have had two calling birds the
last month or so. I have no water on my property and they tend to like the Red
Kamala regrowth around lantana thickets.
Cheers,
Roger
Samford Valley SEQ
On 30/05/2012, at 6:12 PM, "Greg Roberts" <> wrote:
> I found two pairs of White-eared Monarchs calling vigorously at Moy Pocket
> in the Sunshine Coast hinterland. This was significant for two reasons. It
> had long been suspected that like Spectacled and Black-faced Monarchs,
> White-eared Monarch was a summer visitor to south-east Queensland and
> north-east NSW. This latest observation confirms other reports indicating
> that in fact it is a year-round resident.
>
> At Moy Pocket, as elsewhere in the Sunshine Coast hinterland, the monarchs
> reside in narrow strips of vegetation along watercourses, distant from
> decent rainforest patches. The predominant tree in this watercourse
> vegetation is the introduced Camphor laurel.
>
> For more information see here: http://sunshinecoastbirds.blogspot.com.au/
>
> Greg Roberts
>
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