Great video Philip. Razzle dazzle best describes it for me. The landscape also totally different to when I was in the area this time last year. Cheers, Charles Hunter +61 402 907 577 > On 10 Jan 2014, at 6:26 pm, “Ross Macfarlane” <rmacfarl@tpg.com.au> wrote: > > Fantastic! It’s not hard to believe they are allied to the waders when you see that mating behaviour… > > —–Original Message—– From: Philip Maher > Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 5:24 PM > To: birding-aus@birding-aus.org > Subject: [Birding-Aus] Plains-wanderers: rare copulating footage > > Hello > > Chris Wood, Cornell University¹s ebird project leader, took some video of a > pair of plains-wanderers mating while he and colleagues were out with me on > 11 October 2013. I have put a link to the video on the latest news page of > our website. We¹ve seen a lot of mating displays over the years but never > plains-wanderers actually copulating. This is a rare, if not unique, piece > of footage. > > http://www.philipmaher.com/LatestNews1htm.htm > > It¹s been the best breeding season for plains-wanderers on the Hay Plain for > about ten years even though rainfall was well below average and spring was > particularly dry. We did however have the best winter rain for a long time, > followed by a couple of inches in early December. As you¹ll see in the > video, the habitat looks ideal with more herbage (wildflowers) than grass. > > We found three clutches of young and witnessed one of those clutches of four > small chicks grow to independence and a couple of independent young of the > other two clutches. On 28 December¹s Plains-wanderer Weekend, we saw a pair > doing a courtship display and past observations would suggest that this pair > may have been the parents of one of the successful clutches recorded earlier > in the season. > > All this gives us hope the species might recover its numbers. > > Cheers > > Philip Maher > Deniliquin > +61 3 58813378 > > Australian Ornithological Services Pty Ltd > PO Box 385 > South Yarra 3141 > Victoria > Australia > Tel: + 61 3 98204223 > Mobile: 0417310200 > http://www.philipmaher.com > http://www.youtube.com/user/AOS3141 > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Birding-Aus mailing list > Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org > To change settings or unsubscribe visit: > http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > Birding-Aus mailing list > Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org > To change settings or unsubscribe visit: > http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org _______________________________________________ Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org
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