Hi Birders, Do any of you have current info on the status of the DAWSON YELLOW CHAT, is it still present on Curtis Island? We were planning on a twitching expedition for it sometime next year. The recent request for photos on birding-aus prompted a Google search, which only has some undated/or otherwise other unclear entries only. Cheers Michael
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Hi Michael, The Capricorn Yellow Chat (as I am sure you are aware that the association with the Dawson River is almost certainly spurious) is reasonably reliably seen at a number of locations between St Lawrence and Gladstone. However, many of the locations are on private property without public access. The Curtis Island population is one of the smaller and more fragile ones. People looking to ‘twitch’ them would be better served going to other locations such as ’12 mile’ as per Thomas et al or the Port Alma road near Bajool Salt Works when the conditions are right (which they aren’t now … hasn’t rained). See page 13 of the Birdlife Capricornia publication linked below for some info from people more involed than myself … http://www.birdlife.org.au/images/uploads/branches/documents/CAP-Brolga-Sep13.pdf [1] Thanks, Steve Kerr. —– Original Message —– Message: 2 Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 12:40:49 +1000 From: “Michael Hunter” To: Subject: [Birding-Aus] Dawson Yellow Chat Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=”iso-8859-1″ Hi Birders, Do any of you have current info on the status of the DAWSON YELLOW CHAT, is it still present on Curtis Island? We were planning on a twitching expedition for it sometime next year. The recent request for photos on birding-aus prompted a Google search, which only has some undated/or otherwise other unclear entries only. Cheers Michael ————————- Email sent using Optus Webmail Links: —— [1] http://www.birdlife.org.au/images/uploads/branches/documents/CAP-Brolga-Sep13.pdf
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