That was a truly wonderful clip - the clarity was sensational given that it
must have been taken by torch light.
Cheers,
Tony
-----Original Message-----
From: Birding-Aus On Behalf Of
David Taylor
Sent: Thursday, 9 January 2014 10:05 PM
To: Philip Maher;
Subject: Plains-wanderers: rare copulating footage
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.
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> 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
> Deniliquin
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