Hi all, For those of you who haven’t seen it, there has been a recent report of a count of 57 Aussie Painted Snipe by Steve Edwards, Dick Jenkin and Dave Stuart on a private property in the Macquarie Marshes on Birdline. See http://www.eremaea.com/BirdlineRecentSightings.aspx?Birdline=6 It’s worth looking at for the image alone, in which there are 30-odd birds! The recent Action Plan for Aust Birds estimates the entire population at between 1000 and 1500 individuals, so the Marshes count epresents 3.8% of the upper estimate. Is anyone aware of such a gathering in the past? I know Mike Honeyman posted recently about post-breeding flocks in good seasons of 10-20 birds in historical records. Another recent thread on this species mentioned 97 birds reported to Birdline NSW alone, and I know that the birds initially reported on Ash Island as a count of 4 rose to 7 before they seemed to leave that spot. Now might be a good time to try and co-ordinate some sort of count across its range? Mick ===============================
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Hi Mick & everyone else This is an amazing number of birds together. The most birds that I have seen is a group of 9 together that myself & Adam Arnold recorded at a wetland SW of Georgetown (FNQ) on 29/10/06. A survey report was submitted to the APS recovery team. At the time we thought this was a very large gathering, but 57 birds is awesome news. Cheers Martin CachardCairns0428 782 808
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