bristlebird & scrubbird

Hi all Hopefully I can talk for the rest of the Eastern Bristlebird Recovery Team Northern Group and thank Greg Roberts for bringing this to our attention. Unfortunately the northern population of eastern bristlebird is verysmall and the and its survival in northern NSW southeastern QLD is influenced by several threatening process. The northern population has shown some decline in the last 10 years, the extent of this this decline is evident in the new Action Plan for Australian Birds and soon when the new National  Recovery Plan for the Eastern Bristlebird become available on-line from the Federal Government. Although no site information for the bristlebird has been provided in any of the emails as yet, this information was offered to anyone that asks. Please, for anyone with this information please consider the conservation of these critically Endangered Species first, before providing this information to anyone. Thankyou David Stewart Northern Eastern Bristlebird Recovery Team   ________________________________ From: Greg Roberts <ninderry@westnet.com.au> To: ‘Mick Roderick’ <mickhhb@yahoo.com.au> Cc: nick_leseberg@hotmail.com; birding-aus <birding-aus@vicnet.net.au> Sent: Monday, 12 August 2013 4:49 PM Subject: [Birding-Aus] bristlebird & scrubbird Mick You will see in Nick’s post that he offers to share site information. My point is that if that happens and the site information becomes widely known, the widespread use of playback is pretty well inevitable. Greg Roberts From: Mick Roderick [mailto:mickhhb@yahoo.com.au] Sent: Monday, 12 August 2013 4:27 PM To: Greg Roberts; nick_leseberg@hotmail.com Cc: birding-aus Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] bristlebird & scrubbird Having seen this from Greg, and then Bob Inglis’ subsequent message I have re-read Nick’s post and cannot see any mention of call-playback being used and nothing but the most generic of descriptions used for sites visited. Am I missing something? Mick From: Greg Roberts <ninderry@westnet.com.au> To: nick_leseberg@hotmail.com Cc: birding-aus <birding-aus@vicnet.net.au> Sent: Monday, 12 August 2013 12:36 PM Subject: [Birding-Aus] bristlebird & scrubbird Nick I saw your post and was a little alarmed by your offer to share site information in the Border Ranges. I have had numerous requests for details of sites for scrubbird and bristlebird in this area and I don’t hesitate to politely decline. Many years ago I found several scrubbird territories at Gloucester Tops and happily shared that information. These days those poor birds are harassed endlessly by playback. The bristlebird is especially sensitive with only a handful remaining in northern NSW. Frankly, none of us should be using playback to see the species in the critically endangered south-east Queensland-north-east NSW population, let alone sharing site information. People generally are understanding about these matters. Greg Roberts =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au http://birding-aus.org/ =============================== =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au http://birding-aus.org/ =============================== =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au http://birding-aus.org ===============================