Hi Andrew and Richard,
As we reported in the June issue of Australian Birdlife, the Lake Ballard
breeding event apparantly failed. There must have been another successful
event elsewhere on some remote inland lake that nobody discovered. Just
another example of how enigmatic birds these are!
Cheers, Sean
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Andrew Hobbs
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Subject: Banded Stilt breeding information
On 8/11/2014 8:21 AM, Richard Nowotny wrote:
> I have recently seen large aggregations of Banded Stilt, firstly at
> Rottnest Island off Perth (I estimated the total number of birds on
> the Rottnest salt lakes to be in the many thousands) and then at the
> Western Treatment Plant, Werribee, Victoria (where the numbers are
> less but still many hundreds to a thousand). What is of interest apart
> from the uncommonly large numbers is the high proportion of juvenile
> birds present, as evidenced by the number of birds with no or
> incomplete chestnut bands. I presume that this reflects a recent major
> breeding event on some inland lake (probably in Western Australia).
> However, I have not read or heard any report/s of any such breeding event
this year.
>
> Does anyone have any information about Banded Stilt breeding events
> this year?
This report might interest you.
http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/goldfields-deluge-attracts
-thousands-of-breeding-banded-stilts/story-fnhocxo3-1226833885415
Cheers
Andrew
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> Regards. Richard
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> Richard NOWOTNY
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