My personal records show that I recorded 108 Garganey at Darwin SP on 19/3/91 – obviously the same flock as Denise lists below for “early 1991”. I’m sure I reported the sighting, although I can’t recall on which forum. Richard Nowotny Begin forwarded message: > From: Denise Goodfellow <goodfellow@bigpond.com.au> > Date: 2 October 2013 5:31:04 am AEST > To: Nikolas Haass <nhaass@yahoo.com>, Niven <mccrie@gmail.com>, Birding Aus <birding-aus@vicnet.net.au> > Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Seeking Darwin Garganey (and poss Shoveler or Aus Shelduck) records > > Here are records from the Annotated list of Birds of the Top End (Thompson > and Goodfellow, 1991). There are no records I know of for Garganey in 1985 > nor 1987, and I can’t find any at all for Australian Shoveler or Australian > Shelduck. > > Garganey (Anas querquedula) > > Range and status: rare visitor to the northern coastal area only but may be > annual in very small numbers in the Darwin area. Neither Storr nor the > Atlas record this species. Crawford had the first record for the Northern > Territory at Fogg Dam, October 1976. > > Records: three at Darwin SP in March 1975; one at Darwin SP in > October-November 1981; December 1982; one at Palmerston SP and also at > Warlock Ponds in November 1983; one male at Fogg Dam in November 1986; up to > 16 at Snipe Swamp, November 1988; three at Snipe Swamp, November 1989 and > six there in December 1989 and up to 22 in January 1990. Nine at Fiddler’s > Lagoon, January 1990, 126 at Darwin SP in early 1991. > > Sources: Shurcliff & McKean (1990); unpublished known observers include, > Carter, Estbergs, D. Fisher, K. and L. Fisher, Goodfellow, Hertog, Lane, > Percival, Shurcliff, McCrie, McKean, Thompson. > > > > Denise Lawungkurr Goodfellow > PO Box 71, Darwin River, > NT 0841 > 043 8650 835 > > > > >> On 1/10/13 8:38 PM, “Nikolas Haass” <nhaass@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Niven, >> >> I found the following on Eremaea. >> >> Garganey: >> http://www.eremaea.com/Lists.aspx?Context=Birdline&List=34667&Birdline=4 >> >> >> Australian Shelduck: >> http://www.eremaea.com/BirdlineSpeciesArchive.aspx?CommonNamesSet=1&Birdline=4 >> &From=20060101&To=20131001&MonthStart=1&MonthEnd=12&Species=444 >> >> >> The only Australian Shoveler on Eremaea for NT was in Alice. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Nikolas >> >> —————- >> Nikolas Haass >> nhaass@yahoo.com >> Brisbane, QLD >> >> >> ________________________________ >> From: Niven <mccrie@gmail.com> >> To: Birding Aus <birding-aus@vicnet.net.au> >> Sent: Tuesday, October 1, 2013 7:39 PM >> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Seeking Darwin Garganey (and poss Shoveler or >> Aus Shelduck) records >> >> >> Hi all >> I’m after any records of Garganey in Darwin for the years that I didn’t get >> them, so if you were up there, and saw any in those years I’d much >> appreciate hearing about it. >> The years are: >> 1985, 1987, 1992, 1995, 1999, 2002 and any post 2006 >> >> I’m also trying to source records of Australian Shoveler for Darwin. There >> are apparently 2, but I have no details of either. >> The same with a single report of Australian Shelduck prior to the 2012 >> sightings. >> Many thanks to any who can help >> Niven >> =============================== >> >> 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 > =============================== =============================== 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 ===============================
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