Thanks for letting me know.
On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 at 16:25, Steve Clark <> wrote:
> G'day Lawrie
>
> I have none outside Melbourne (Heidelberg Heights).
>
> Cheers
> Steve
>
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 4:08 PM, Lawrie Conole <> wrote:
>
>> Hello birders
>>
>> Following on from the recent inconclusive chat about the decline or demise
>> of Birding-Aus, let's put it to the test - how useful is the old list for
>> things other than twitching headlines!!?? :-)
>>
>> I'm in the process of analysing non-urban records of the introduced Song
>>
> Thrush (*Turdus philomelos*) from Victoria, with a view to publishing the
>
>
>> results later this year. There aren't a lot of records in the various
>> databases (I know I'm guilty of not logging a couple of my exurban records
>> of this species). I'm interested to hear about any confirmed records of
>> Song Thrushes, which are to the best of your knowledge not logged in a
>> database (BirdLife atlas, eBird, Atylas of Living Australia, etc.), and
>> which are from areas either on the fringe of Melbourne or Geelong or in
>> rural or natural areas.
>>
>> Despite what the field guides, etc. say, the Song Thrush is not restricted
>> to Geelong and Melbourne. There are very old records resulting from
>> deliberate releases in places like Ballarat and Hamilton - where the birds
>> are probably now locally extinct. Leaving aside the odd confusion with
>>
> Bassian Thrush (*Zoothera lunulata*), there are a few dozen records from
>
>
>> the Otway Ranges (SW Victoria) and out on to the Gippsland Plain (E
>> Victoria). Tell me your exurban Song Thrush stories.
>>
>> Mail me off-list at & I'll summarise the records in
>> print
>> later in 2016.
>>
>> thanks in advance
>>
>
>> Lawrie
>>
>>
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>> Dr. Lawrie Conole
>> Tylden 3444 Australia
>>
>> lconole |at| gmail.com
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