Hello Lawrie, I have a very old record of a single Song Thrush at Neerim,
east of Melbourne in 1991. It was on a garden fence which enabled us to spot
it. As we stopped it jumped down and hopped across the grass verge for about
15 secs, long enough for a positive ID.
Tony.
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From: Birding-Aus On Behalf Of
Lawrie Conole
Sent: Friday, January 8, 2016 3:59 PM
To: Steve Clark; Birding-Aus
Subject: RFI - Song Thrush records
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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