Well done Christopher. For the record, I saw all six species of falcon in one day in January 1972 at Dynevor Downs Station near Thargomindah, in south-west Queensland, in the company of Chris Corben and Greg Czechura. In fact we saw all six species within an hour of each other. This falcon feast, in an area now protected as Lake Bindegolly National Park – included two adult and two juvenile Grey Falcons in what was then believed to be the first breeding record for Queensland. Still, I lived in Alice Springs for almost a year and did not encounter the species in that time.
Greg Roberts
“Message: 11
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 19:30:16 +0930
From: Christopher Watson
Subject: [Birding-Aus] All the falcons… Alice Springs just keeps on giving
Ok this is just a gloat, so feel free to skip this and head straight to the next posting if flagrant grandstanding might offend.
Just the other day I was absentmindedly musing to my birdwatching partner-in-crime, that if one was set the arbitrary task of seeing all *
Falco* species in Australia in a single day, then Alice Springs would probably be the place to do it… of course, you’d just wait ’til you stumbled on a Grey Falcon and then spend the rest of the day racing around to tick off the others.”
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