2 new grasswrens to chase!

[Phil Gregory <>]

Thanks Noel, it was causing great frustration as i knew it was written up somewhere but couldn’t think where, and I looked at that book but missed it! One for someone with energy and enthusiasm to go sort out. Over to you Martin…..

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On 21 Jul 2020, at 8:24 PM, Noel Luff <> wrote:

The elusive Kimberley Grasswren is covered in Black A & Gower P, 2017, "Grasswrens Australian Outback Identities", page 106. Includes photo, brief history of sightings and some details on habitat. The location given was close to Fitzroy Crossing. Last seen (and photographed) in 1991 and, despite extensive searches has not been reported since.

On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 3:44 PM Roger Giller <m("optusnet.com.au","rgiller");" class="">> wrote:

The Gazetteer of Australian Place Names https://placenames.fsdf.org.au/ has two Pinnacle Creeks in WA, one about 60 km from Fitzroy Crossing and another a similar distance from Marble Bar.

 

Cheers

Roger

 

From: Birding-Aus <m("birding-aus.org","birding-aus-bounces");" target="_blank" class="">> On Behalf Of Gary Wright
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Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] 2 new grasswrens to chase!

 

Hi Martin

 

I know nothing about the grasswrens but I have 1:50000 maps for Kimberley and search for Pinnacle Creek brings up nothing.

 

Gary

 

On Tue, 21 Jul 2020 at 13:06, martin cachard <m("hotmail.com","mcachard");" target="_blank" class="">> wrote:

Thanks for that update Dave – I thought this was about to happen…

 

Whilst on the subject of grasswrens, does anyone know anything much about the Dusky-types that were found up in the Kimberleys late last century?? All I’m aware of is that the location was Pinnacle Ck (wherever that is??!!) and that the birds looked similar to Dusky GW…

Any news of this would be very welcome , thanks…

 

Cheers,

Martin Cachard

Cairns, FNQ

 

From: Birding-Aus <m("birding-aus.org","birding-aus-bounces");" target="_blank" class="">> On Behalf Of Dave Torr
Sent: Tuesday, 21 July 2020 12:00 PM
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Subject: [Birding-Aus] 2 new grasswrens to chase!

 

Not an option for those of us in Melbourne. IOC 10.2 has done some splitting to create the Opalton and Rufous Grasswrens!

 

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