Begin forwarded message:
> From: Graeme Chapman <>
> Date: 14 March 2018 9:30:59 AM AEDT
> To: martin cachard <>
> Subject: Re: Black-tailed Gull
>
> Hello Martin,
>
> Thanks for all that info.
>
> This Black-tailed Gull thing certainly started me searching through all my
> old records and it turns out the slide was wrongly labelled.
>
> I actually took the pictures at Lee Point in Darwin in May 1982 and that
> record is documented in the guide Birds of the Darwin Region.
>
> So your Cairns records still stand!!
>
> The northern Peregrine is a very astute discovery and I'd guess you are
> certainly dealing with the same individual.
>
> My search caused me to read a 1982 diary, field notes on all sorts of things,
> Yellow Chats, Zitting Cisticola and the NT Little Shrike-thrush which Phil
> Gregory says is actually an Arafura Shrike-thrush. I always thought it was
> rather different to east coast birds. Another one for the twitchers!!!
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Graeme
>
>
>
>
> On 14/03/2018, at 7:54 AM, martin cachard wrote:
>
>> good morning Graeme, my #1 Hero,
>>
>> it's nice to hear from you.
>>
>> looking at your image of what is DEFINITELY a Black-tailed Gull on your
>> website, the bird that I saw here in Cairns on Friday would appear to be
>> looking very similarly plumaged to yours.
>>
>> I wonder Graeme when (month & year?) you took this photo, because it would
>> be the FIRST confirmed record for the Cairns region.
>>
>> this means that the 1st year imm that Terry Reis and myself found on
>> 01/04/2013 would be the second confirmed, and that Friday's adult (or
>> 'sub-ad'/2nd year non-br imm) that I saw would be the third definite record
>> for the region.
>>
>> and whether the bird I saw on Friday was an adult, or a sub-ad/late imm, we
>> now know that there has at least been two different individual Black-tailed
>> visiting Cairns, or maybe even three...
>>
>> maybe we have a regular individual coming here annually? I wonder...
>>
>> and if one Black-tailed Gull is a regular visitor here, then I wonder if it
>> has been visiting Cairns as regularly, and for as long, as the northern
>> hemisphere Peregrine Falcon that is here at the moment...???
>>
>> there are images taken by the same photographer as far back as late 2014,
>> and in every Austral summer since, of a visiting Peregrine in Cairns.
>>
>> it appears to be of either sub-spp 'japonensis' or 'tundrius', and has been
>> 'summering' here in Cairns CBD and environs.
>>
>> the bird has been using, and currently still is, the very same corner of a
>> particular building as a favoured perch - especially after dawn and late in
>> the afternoons.
>>
>> you have to wonder that this Peregrine may very well be the very same
>> individual coming here annually...???
>>
>> I only became aware of this Peregrine ever having been in Cairns less than 2
>> weeks ago, and this was after a phone call from Keith Hutton in Leeton, NSW
>> !!
>>
>> birds never cease to amaze me!
>>
>> and I love your work Mr Chapman !!!
>>
>> happy birding everyone...
>>
>>
>> martin cachard
>>
>>
>> solar whisper wildlife cruises,
>> daintree river, FNQ.
>>
>> & trinity beach, cairns, FNQ
>>
>>
>> From: Graeme Chapman <>
>> Sent: Tuesday, 13 March 2018 11:30 AM
>> To:
>> Cc:
>> Subject: Black-tailed Gull
>>
>> Hello Martin,
>>
>> There is am image of what I think was a Black-tailed Gull on my website.
>>
>> Taken many years ago at the Cairns Esplanade. Just exactly when I don't know
>> at present - I'll have to do a lot of digging into past records.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Graeme
>
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