Gooday BA
Can someone please inform if it is possible to see Scrubtits at or near Melaleuca, SW Tasmania, if we fly in to see the Orange-bellied Parrot.
Thanks
Greg Little
Greg Little – Principal Consultant
General Flora and Fauna
PO Box 526
Wallsend, NSW, 2287, Australia
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Hi all Just back from Tassie . Thanks to all for the info. We had a leisurely trip with a couple of friends, taking photos etc. We saw 11 of the endemics on a lousy weather day 1, and picked up the 12th, Forty Spotted Pardalote at Peter Murrell reserve and then in 3 different locations on Bruny, Missionary Road, 3kms south of Dennes Point and at Inala where we managed some photos on our last day there when the sun came out and the wind died down ! We didn’t go out at night so didn’t try for any of the night birds. I managed to photographed all bar the Strong-billed Honeyeater and the Black Currawong. I got great shots of Tasmanian Thornbill , Scrubtit and Tasmanian Scrub-wren and the Scrubtit we saw did have white tips to the underneath of the tail. We saw one pair at Fern Tree and 2 pairs on South Bruny along with 4 Pink Robins, 3 male and 1 brown bird. Other highlights were 5 Freckled Duck including some nicely coloured males at Gould’s Lagoon and 8 Swift Parrots at the top of the Meehan Nature Reserve Stringybark track. One was even asleep in one of the photos I took ! There were 5 adult and 3 immature Hooded Plovers at Adventure Bay just on the beach in front of the supermarket and 3 adults on Cloudy Bay beach. Only 5 Little Penguin came in at dusk at the Hummock. The grand finale was a fabulous pelagic yesterday with the highlight being a very obliging Mottled Petrel that gave several passes and fed at the back of the boat for a while. Cheers Dick Jenkin DUNGOG NSW —–Original Message—– Dick Jenkin Sent: Sunday, 25 January 2015 9:32 AM Hi all Thank you all, for your responses to my rfi for birds of the night in Tasmania. I have a few locations to try, mostly the birds have been heard but not seen, luck of the draw. I have been to Tassie several times before , mostly pelagics, so limited bush bird hunting. There is nothing new for me to see , just hoping to get some good photos, particularly of the endemics. When studying up on my Thornbill, Scrubwren, Scrubtit identifying features, I noticed that all my texts do not show Scrubtit with a prominent white tip to the tail but the New Slater does. I am presuming Slater is the odd one out ? Cheers Dick Jenkin DUNGOG
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They have prominent white “chevrons” on the bend of the folded wing, but I wouldn’t have said they have prominent white tips to the tail. I don’t have the new Slater, but the 1974 edition does show a fine white tip to the tail. Simpson and day give a bit lighter tip, and P&K have pretty much uniform colour. In the field, I can’t say I’ve noticed a white tip, so it can’t be too prominent. John Tongue Devonport, Tas. On 25/01/2015, at 9:31 AM, “Dick Jenkin” < richardnjenkin@bigpond.com> wrote:
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Greg, Not sure about Melaleuca, thought probably unlikely.. They’re pretty common at Ferntree, on Mt Wellington, if you’re staying in Hobart.
Cheers, John Tongue Ulverstone, Tas.
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