Well I can only claim 2, but my first was the grey grasswren, so I reckon
that takes some beating (Buloo Overflow in 1978, during the Tibooburra
campout for the first RAOU Bird Atlas.) Took me until 2001 to find a
striated grasswren.
-----Original Message-----
From: Birding-Aus On Behalf Of
John Tongue
Sent: Tuesday, 12 May 2015 6:24 PM
To: Peter Waanders
Cc: ; Birding Aus; Graeme Chapman
Subject: Grasswrens and fairy-wrens
One we still need (even having done a fantastic 'Grasswrens Tour'). ;)
On 11/05/2015, at 8:57 PM, Peter Waanders <> wrote:
> Hi Graeme & Carl,
>
> I'm afraid I beat Carl to it (being the only person alive whose first
> grasswren was a White-throated):
> On 5 Sept 1996, I casually wandered up the Gunlom escarpment in the
> mid-day heat, wearing shorts & thongs (flip-flops for our
> international readers) and found two birds unperturbed by my presence,
allowing photographs:
> http://www.arkive.org/white-throated-grasswren/amytornis-woodwardi/
> These were my first Grasswrens ever and I've been additcted to
> Grasswren ever since....
> cheers
> Peter
>
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