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Regent Honeyeaters - on Facebook and YouTube

To: "'Dean Ingwersen'" <>, <>
Subject: Regent Honeyeaters - on Facebook and YouTube
From: "Philip Veerman" <>
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2014 15:44:38 +1000
Hi Dean,

Thanks for that. Whilst we are on videos of this: There is a video of my
speech about this subject to the BA scientific day on honeyeaters of 1994,
in the BA and the BOCA library (now presumably combined), that includes some
film of the behaviour:  I have two bits of the film in this video. Five
minutes that I took in Canberra in 1998, plus I have the eleven minutes of
film from 1992 also in Canberra (taken by someone else and given to me). If
someone has the skills and equipment to upload that to youtube properly
referenced, that would be great. 

My articles are:
 
Veerman, P.A. (1992) ?Vocal mimicry of larger honeyeaters by the Regent
Honeyeater Xanthomyza phrygia?, Australian Bird Watcher 14: 180?189. (A
discovery and description of an apparently unique behaviour.)
 
Veerman, P.A. (1994) ?Batesian acoustic mimicry by the Regent Honeyeater
Xanthomyza phrygia?, Australian Bird Watcher 15: 250?259. (Further evidence,
literature review and analysis of why this birds? mimicry is unique.)

There have been several more cases come up since my published summaries. I
have something well over 100 emails on the subject, most are comments and
some of these are new observations of relevance. Most field guides now
mention it. The uniqueness of the behaviour has been recognised by overseas
experts on bird communication. But we need more good quality film of it to
get it onto the next edition of Attenborough's life of birds (or something
else like that). 
 
Philip Veerman
24 Castley Circuit
KAMBAH   ACT  2902
 
Phone. 02 - 62314041

-----Original Message-----
From: Birding-Aus  On Behalf Of
Dean Ingwersen
Sent: Tuesday, 5 August 2014 3:18 PM
To: 
Subject: Regent Honeyeaters - on Facebook and YouTube


Sorry I forgot the YouTube link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55IQwd_ynH0



Dean Ingwersen | Woodland Bird and WA Program Manager 
Regent Honeyeater recovery coordinator


BirdLife Australia
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-----Original Message-----
From: Birding-Aus  On Behalf Of
Dean Ingwersen
Sent: Tuesday, 5 August 2014 2:33 PM
To: 
Subject: Regent Honeyeaters - on Facebook and YouTube

Hi all,

The national Regent Honeyeater recovery program, administered and
coordinated by BirdLife Australia, has recently gone high tech - we now have
a Facebook page and a YouTube page.  Please give them a visit and a like -
we will be using the Facebook page as a means to communicate with all of our
volunteers and the broader community, and as an example there are a few
posts from the weekend surveys (thanks to all who helped out again).

As an incentive for the YouTube account, our first video is a great one
recorded just yesterday by BirdLife's Mick Roderick.  It is of a male Regent
Honeyeater doing superb Little Wattlebird mimicry at Belmont, NSW (regular
Birding-Aussers will know Phillip Veerman published on this years ago).  We
hope to post more videos of Regents from previous years and other sightings
as they come in.

Cheers Dean


Dean Ingwersen | Woodland Bird and WA Program Manager Regent Honeyeater
recovery coordinator


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