Wow - fantastic and fascinating footage - thanks for sharing Phil
David Taylor
On 9 Jan 2014, at 4:24 pm, Philip Maher <> wrote:
> Hello
>
> Chris Wood, Cornell University¹s ebird project leader, took some video of a
> pair of plains-wanderers mating while he and colleagues were out with me on
> 11 October 2013. I have put a link to the video on the latest news page of
> our website. We¹ve seen a lot of mating displays over the years but never
> plains-wanderers actually copulating. This is a rare, if not unique, piece
> of footage.
>
> http://www.philipmaher.com/LatestNews1htm.htm
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> It¹s been the best breeding season for plains-wanderers on the Hay Plain for
> about ten years even though rainfall was well below average and spring was
> particularly dry. We did however have the best winter rain for a long time,
> followed by a couple of inches in early December. As you¹ll see in the
> video, the habitat looks ideal with more herbage (wildflowers) than grass.
>
> We found three clutches of young and witnessed one of those clutches of four
> small chicks grow to independence and a couple of independent young of the
> other two clutches. On 28 December¹s Plains-wanderer Weekend, we saw a pair
> doing a courtship display and past observations would suggest that this pair
> may have been the parents of one of the successful clutches recorded earlier
> in the season.
>
> All this gives us hope the species might recover its numbers.
>
> Cheers
>
> Philip Maher
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