hello all,
further to my comment yesterday about Mallee Emu-Wrens in the Big Desert in the
early 80's - i'm curious as to how extensively the area has been searched for
them of late...
it's a tremendous amount of remote relatively trackless country that I would
imagine could well support any number of them there...??!!
by the way Kev, Lake Tyrell has good reliable Redthroats too...
cheers,
martin cachard,
cairns
> Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 17:54:31 +1000
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Mallee Emu-wren at Wyperfeld
> From:
> To: ; ; ;
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>
> Since twitchers have been going there for 40 years looking for the only
> twitchable population of redthroat in Victoria and despite this the redthroat
> still survives there one would hope it wouldn't make any difference anyway.
> Kevin bartram
>
> --- Original Message ---
>
> From: "Ross Macfarlane" <>
> Sent: 22 September 2014 5:45 PM
> To: "martin cachard" <>, "Tim Dolby"
> <>,
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Mallee Emu-wren at Wyperfeld
>
> Folks, this is tremendous news and potentially a really significant boost to
> the survival chances of the Mallee emu-wren, as when Sarah Brown completed
> her PhD a few years ago she was unable to locate any populations outside of
> the Murray-Sunset / Hattah-Kulkyne complex, as it was generally believed the
> populations in Ngarkat had been decimated by the fires in the early 2000s.
> Since she also found they had very poor rates of dispersal, to find a
> population here really is wonderful news as just maybe a small cryptic
> population has been hanging on in a place no one had expected to find them.
>
> I would just like to add though: can we please not have a mad rush of
> twitchers going looking for them in this place, at least and until someone
> has been able to have a quiet look and see how many there are and how viable
> this population is? This is one of our most vulnerable bird species, as the
> MS/HK population is the last stronghold, and it could be wiped out overnight
> by a big fire in the wrong place. This new population has the chance to
> change the picture for this species' survival, so please can we not muck it
> up until we know how safe it is in this new location...
>
> Yours in stipiturid sincerity,
> Ross Macfarlane
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: martin cachard
> Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2014 8:47 AM
> To: Tim Dolby ;
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Mallee Emu-wren at Wyperfeld
>
> hey Tim,
> that's such wonderful news!!
>
> many moons ago I stumbled upon a family party of Mallee Emu-Wrens at Big
> Billy Bore, further west in the northern Big Desert in the early 1980's... I
> was in the area looking for Red-lored Whistlers.
> the habitat was very thick Broombrush-heath with very sparse small patches
> of spinifex, so it seems they don't mind sparse spinifex as a habitat
> preference...
> i'm not sure how long it's been since they have been recorded in the Big
> Desert.
>
> cheers,
> martin cachard,
> cairns
>
>
>
> > From:
> > To:
> > Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 06:38:17 +0000
> > Subject: [Birding-Aus] Mallee Emu-wren at Wyperfeld
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > If anyone's heading to Wyperfeld National Park (Vic), Matthew Crawford has
> > just photographed a family of Mallee Emu-wren along the Discovery Walk,
> > see http://www.eremaea.com. Remarkably he found the birds in an area of
> > open tea-tree woodland - although there are some stands of triodia nearby,
> > he was some distance from significant area of triodia. Despite extensive
> > previous surveys of Wyperfeld there's have been very reports of Mallee
> > Emu-wren, and their presence along the Discovery Walk seems to me to be
> > new and remarkable. In fact when I first heard about it I’d dismissed as
> > miss-ID’d eclipsed Splendid or Variegated Fairy-wren. So I’m currently
> > eating humble pie! Why are they there now? Migration, population
> > expansion, or perhaps displacement due to fires?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Tim
> >
> >
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