I found two pairs of White-eared Monarchs calling vigorously at Moy Pocket in the Sunshine Coast hinterland. This was significant for two reasons. It had long been suspected that like Spectacled and Black-faced Monarchs, White-eared Monarch was a summer visitor to south-east Queensland and north-east NSW. This latest observation confirms other reports indicating that in fact it is a year-round resident.
At Moy Pocket, as elsewhere in the Sunshine Coast hinterland, the monarchs reside in narrow strips of vegetation along watercourses, distant from decent rainforest patches. The predominant tree in this watercourse vegetation is the introduced Camphor laurel.
For more information see here: http://sunshinecoastbirds.blogspot.com.au/
Greg Roberts
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In my Samford yard SEQ White-eared Monarch are year round resident, although they go quiet in the Fall and early Winter but I have had two calling birds the last month or so. I have no water on my property and they tend to like the Red Kamala regrowth around lantana thickets.
Cheers,
Roger Samford Valley SEQ
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Greg et al.,
FYI: Raja saw an adult White-eared Monarch ten days ago (20th May) in Brisbane.
Cheers,
Nikolas
G’day Greg,
When I used to visit my sister more regularly at Talle Heights in the Tallebudgera valley during winter months, White-eared Monarch was reasonably easy to find in scrub along creek lines and remnant patches like the Nichols Scrub in the Carumbin Valley where they could be viewed on top of the forest canopy from a cleared hill vantage point. They seem to be an altitudinal migrant in that neck of the woods.
Cheers Jeff.