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> On 18 Oct 2022, at 12:46 pm, Martin Williams < marwil@netspace.net.au> wrote:
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> WTP. I am at Kirk Point. The gravel roads and tracks are dry, with the occasional puddle on the edge. There is no sign of any flooding. Martin W.
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>> 1. Request for reports of Australian Painted-snipe (Geoffrey Dabb)
>> 2. WTP apres le deluge (Martin Butterfield)
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>> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2022 10:23:40 +1100
>> From: “Geoffrey Dabb” < gdabb@iinet.net.au>
>> To: < Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org>, < chris.purnell@birdlife.org.au>
>> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Request for reports of Australian Painted-snipe
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>> Some concern is being expressed about the state of our endemic Australian
>> Painted-snipe. This is listed as Endangered under the EPBC Act, but it is
>> not among the 22 bird taxons listed as priorities in the Threatened Species
>> Action Plan 2022-2023. The Action Plan for Australian Birds 2020 says that
>> ‘numbers may now be down to 340 mature individuals’. Monitoring is
>> described as ‘very poor, relying on the assembly of opportunistic records of
>> birdwatchers .’ . Since the beginning of 2021, there has been an alarmingly
>> small number of reports in the online recording. Pending a more organised
>> approach to assessment of numbers, I am proposing here that an effort be
>> made to get into a central point all recent observations of the species,
>> including those of an opportunistic nature that might not otherwise find
>> their way into the records.
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>> The period concerned is 1 January 2021 to the present, and continuing.
>> Please send reports to Birdlife Australia, not to me. The contact is Chris
>> Purnell, a co-addressee above. Precise locations need not be disclosed, if
>> that is a consideration in deciding whether to make a report.
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>> Geoffrey Dabb
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>> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2022 18:26:57 +1100
>> From: Martin Butterfield < martinflab@gmail.com>
>> To: birding-aus NEW < birding-aus@birding-aus.org>
>> Subject: [Birding-Aus] WTP apres le deluge
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>> What is the state of the roads in the WTP at present? I have a thought of
>> visiting on the way from the Grampians to Sale but in a 2WD car and don’t
>> want to slide all over the place (and especially not into a pond)!
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>> Martin Butterfield
>> franmart.blogspot.com.au/
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