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Range of Weebill

To: Peter Shute <>, Mike Carter <>
Subject: Range of Weebill
From: martin cachard <>
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2018 20:26:30 +0000
perhaps the increase in butcherbirds around the suburbs of Melbourne in the 
last few decades is because there is now more suitable habitat and available 
food.

whenever I've visited Melb to see old friends & family, particularly around the 
eastern burbs of Blackburn, Box Hill, the Waverley's, and the Bayside areas, I 
have noticed some nice changes in the local native birdlife there...

because I've lived up here in gorgeous FNQ since 1996, and these Melb locales 
were my old stomping grounds from when I was a boy and a MUCH younger man, 
these changes are not only a pleasant surprise, but they are also rather 
obvious to me as I'm not visiting them very often...

in general, there are a lot more smaller birds around, like Brown Thornbills, 
White-browed Scrub-wrens, Superb Fairy-wrens etc, in people's residential 
gardens in these burbs. I hear butcherbirds calling in the dawn chorus in 
pretty much every suburb I overnight in when visiting, much more so than in the 
70's to early 90's.

as suburbs like these develop and mature, so does the vegetation that is within 
them as well - it seems to me that a nice mosaic of vegetation types has thus 
been created, and with enough shrubbery and other cover to 'bring back' such 
smaller songbirds as these, and of course, this supports more families of 
butcherbirds.


the increasing controls on domestic cats has no doubt helped a great deal as 
well.


and of course, this note of mine is a very general, and possibly a slightly 
romanticised, view of things, but I reckon that this helps to explain the 
butcherbirds increasing, especially in the greater eastern suburbs where I am 
from, and have been visiting in the last 22 years too...


cheers for now,


martin cachard


writing to you now from a VERY NON-cyclone ravaged FNQ...




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Shute <>
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To: Mike Carter
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Subject: Range of Weebill

What's the reason for the increase in butcherbirds? People feeding them?

Peter Shute

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> On 15 Apr 2018, at 8:34 pm, Mike Carter <> wrote:
>
> Hi Patrick, Buff-rumped Thornbill is even more unlikely; that 2006 
> publication that I mentioned lists that species as extinct on the Peninsula. 
> Yellow-rumped Thornbill is a possibility but is distinctive so unlikely to be 
> confused and has a patchy distribution. White-browed Scrubwren has a 
> prominent white eye and would be plundered by Grey Butcherbirds which have 
> become more common in built-up areas in the last three decades.
>
>

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