Just forwarding this to the list for Mike Carter. Replies to the list or to Mike, please.
Peter Shute
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From: Mike Carter <pterodroma@bigpond.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2018 at 2:39 pm
Subject: FW: Elegant Pitta AT Barrow Island
To: <birding-aus-owner@birding-aus.org>
From: Mike Carter <pterodroma@bigpond.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2018 at 2:39 pm
Subject: FW: Elegant Pitta AT Barrow Island
To: <birding-aus-owner@birding-aus.org>
John Darnell advises that an Elegant Pitta arrived at Barrow Island on a ship and sailed off on same ship when it departed without coming ashore!! He says photos show it to be the white-chinned race vigorsii sometimes split as a full species. I’ve not been given the dates of its ‘stay’. There are as yet no records for Australia.
Mike Carter, 03 5977 1262
Mornington, VIC 3931, Australia
