Okay!!!!!!!!!! This is way way fun! I love the imput here folks! I am reading and digesting all of this since you folks get to live there and the longest I have been in Aus was 6 months while filming in 2008 and 2009. So Some important parameters and confessions here about how I came about a route for accessing the most parrots per sq mile. Also I need to add I do drift in Victoria some as well. First off the areas have to be reliable since I will be taking up to 8 people from overseas to enjoy parrots. Also it needs to be reasonable day travel so not to wear everyone out! Of course to take in some amazing aussie scenery we fly to different habitats like desert in NT and rainforest in QLD etc. This is based primarily on my research in Sept 2014 so I traveled most of this myself already. 1. Land in Adeliade and have staked out Rock Parrots on the Penninsula etc. 2. Drive inland for Elegant Parrots. (found several easily) 3. Search Adelaide Parks and CBD for Eastern Rosellas, Galah, Long-billed Corellas, Little Corellas, Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoos, Musk and Purple-crowned Lorikeets. 4. Waikerie and Glue Pot – Crimson Rosella (Adelaide version) Scarlet-chested parrot (remote possible) Mallee Ringneck, Blue Bonnet, Mulga Parrot. Major Mitchells a possibility. Cockatiel possible, Budgerigar possible. 5. Off to Wyperfeld National Park in Western Victoria for Regent Parrots, reliable Major Mitchells. of course red-rumped parrot. 6. Drive to Grampians and Halls Gap area for Gang-gang Cockatoos potential Blue-winged Parrots, potential Little Lorikeet 7.Fly to Alice Springs and surrounds for solid looks at budgerigar and cockatiel, bourke’s parrot 8. Fly to Cairns and Atherton Tablelands and Surrounds for Double-eyed Fig Parrot, Rainbow Lorikeet, Scaly-breasted Lorikeets, Pale-headed Rosellas, Red-winged Parrot, Australian King-Parrot and Red-tailed Black-Cockatoos. That’s about 30 species. The trick is to gather as many parrots per sq KM but also not wear people out with travel as they see different habitats. The time frame had to be Sept/Oct with as little driving and flying as possible. This is what I came up with and am pretty excited about it. However I am always up for suggestions! With being teachable I can’t help but do better with this one! Thanks so much and I was so impressed by the detail you guys provided. Keep the suggestions coming! Don
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Hi Don and Martin The old saying about life was not meant to be easy really applies to birding! I never said it would be easy for Varied Lorikeets around Laura! Martins thanks for confirming they had been seen on the Cape – it was when I was working up there on tenure resolution stuff and I thought I had seen them. So I’m not going crazy. Phew! And Don the road up to Iron Range is in good condition (well compared to how it was) so there some more parrots up there for your visit! Good luck. Ian Sinclair Sent: Friday, 5 June 2015 6:43 AM mile Further thoughts Hi Ian & Don, I wouldn’t say that seeing Varied Lorikeets around Laura, on southern Cape York Peninsula, would be easy. The last trip that I made up that way was on 15/12/14 – it was on a HUGE day trip out of Cairns with my mate Kev Bartram, when I was introducing him to some of my little spots in that Laura-Musgrave-Lakefield-Cooktown area that I’ve been hitting quietly over the last 19 years. I recall that it was about 7:30-ish am on that day, somewhere between the Morehead River crossing & the Artemis Stn turn-off on the main road, when a small flock of half a dozen or so Varied Lorikeets whizzed by at a zillion miles an hour across the road at treetop height, and never to be seen again!! That sighting of Varied Lorikeets would be one of only a handful of times that I have seen this species in that general area – being such a highly nomadic blossom-seeking species, Varied Lorikeets would be a difficult bird to actually target around that neck of the woods… But of course, on the other hand, they would always be some kind of chance there too, because of this. It’s just that the Laura area would probably be on the very south-eastern edge of their range up here. Which reminds me of something else… Over the years there have been a few erroneous (in my opinion) reports of Little Lorikeets in that Laura-Morehead River area. I believe pretty confidently that such reports would have been of mis-identified Varied Lorikeets. Don, I’ve found some more good spots for fig-parrots in the Cairns metro area for you too… Have a nice day everyone!! martin cachard, trinity beach (another awesome sun-rise right at this moment too!!), cairns sq mile Further thoughts Of and 2009. aussie QLD most etc. Mulga came one! Keep
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Hi Ian, I never said that YOU said that Varied Lorikeet would be easy to see around Laura. Maybe if you read that very first line in my post again, you will see that all I said was that they wouldn’t be an easy bird to see in the Laura area. (FULL STOP!!). I was NOT implying anything at all, and I apologise if you took it this way – I was merely responding to your call for help on this with regard to Varied’s occurring on the Cape… cheers
martin cachard Hi Don and MartinThe old saying about life was not meant to be easy really applies to birding! I never said it would be easy for Varied Lorikeets around Laura! Martins thanks for confirming they had been seen on the Cape – it was when I was working up there on tenure resolution stuff and I thought I had seen them. So I’m not going crazy. Phew! And Don the road up to Iron Range is in good condition (well compared to how it was) so there some more parrots up there for your visit!Good luck.Ian Sinclair From: martin cachard [mailto:mcachard@hotmail.com] Sent: Friday, 5 June 2015 6:43 AM I wouldn’t say that seeing Varied Lorikeets around Laura, on southern Cape York Peninsula, would be easy. The last trip that I made up that way was on 15/12/14 – it was on a HUGE day trip out of Cairns with my mate Kev Bartram, when I was introducing him to some of my little spots in that Laura-Musgrave-Lakefield-Cooktown area that I’ve been hitting quietly over the last 19 years. I recall that it was about 7:30-ish am on that day, somewhere between the Morehead River crossing & the Artemis Stn turn-off on the main road, when a small flock of half a dozen or so Varied Lorikeets whizzed by at a zillion miles an hour across the road at treetop height, and never to be seen again!! That sighting of Varied Lorikeets would be one of only a handful of times that I have seen this species in that general area – being such a highly nomadic blossom-seeking species, Varied Lorikeets would be a difficult bird to actually target around that neck of the woods… But of course, on the other hand, they would always be some kind of chance there too, because of this. It’s just that the Laura area would probably be on the very south-eastern edge of their range up here. Which reminds me of something else… Over the years there have been a few erroneous (in my opinion) reports of Little Lorikeets in that Laura-Morehead River area. I believe pretty confidently that such reports would have been of mis-identified Varied Lorikeets. Don, I’ve found some more good spots for fig-parrots in the Cairns metro area for you too… Have a nice day everyone!! martin cachard, trinity beach (another awesome sun-rise right at this moment too!!), cairns > From: iroesinclair@bigpond.com
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Hi Ian & Don, I wouldn’t say that seeing Varied Lorikeets around Laura, on southern Cape York Peninsula, would be easy. The last trip that I made up that way was on 15/12/14 – it was on a HUGE day trip out of Cairns with my mate Kev Bartram, when I was introducing him to some of my little spots in that Laura-Musgrave-Lakefield-Cooktown area that I’ve been hitting quietly over the last 19 years. I recall that it was about 7:30-ish am on that day, somewhere between the Morehead River crossing & the Artemis Stn turn-off on the main road, when a small flock of half a dozen or so Varied Lorikeets whizzed by at a zillion miles an hour across the road at treetop height, and never to be seen again!! That sighting of Varied Lorikeets would be one of only a handful of times that I have seen this species in that general area – being such a highly nomadic blossom-seeking species, Varied Lorikeets would be a difficult bird to actually target around that neck of the woods… But of course, on the other hand, they would always be some kind of chance there too, because of this. It’s just that the Laura area would probably be on the very south-eastern edge of their range up here. Which reminds me of something else… Over the years there have been a few erroneous (in my opinion) reports of Little Lorikeets in that Laura-Morehead River area. I believe pretty confidently that such reports would have been of mis-identified Varied Lorikeets. Don, I’ve found some more good spots for fig-parrots in the Cairns metro area for you too… Have a nice day everyone!! martin cachard, trinity beach (another awesome sun-rise right at this moment too!!), cairns
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Thanks Ian. Great tips especially for Little Lorikeet. Because of travel time constraints we wouldnt be able to head over to Laura or Mt. Isa way either for Varied Lorikeet. Sixteen days to see about 30 species of parrots takes some work to organize I find but I think I did a decent job of it. I love all the imput here. Absolutely great! On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 2:11 AM, IROE < iroesinclair@bigpond.com> wrote:
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