Banders: Greg
Clancy, Bill Greenlees
Assistant: Val
Clancy
Only twelve birds of three species were mist netted on the day, five
being retraps.
The results are shown in the table below.
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SPECIES
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07/12/2013
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|
|
Banded
Retrap
|
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Grey Fantail
|
1
0
|
|
Silvereye
|
1
0
|
|
Lewin’s Honeyeater
|
5
5
|
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TOTALS
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7
5
|
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| Lewin's Honeyeater |
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| First year Lewin's Honeyeater |
The five retraps were all Lewin’s Honeyeaters banded in 2012 and
2013. The Grey Fantail had a tail-wing
ratio of 1.22 suggesting that it was of the Tasmanian race. Tasmanian birds are usually only present in
the local area during the autumn and winter so this bird either decided to not
return to Tasmania (it may have been a young adult too young to breed) or it was
a long-tailed local bird.
Other interesting records were Pacific Baza (heard calling), Rufous
Fantail, Varied Triller, Little Shrike-thrush, Cicadabird (heard calling), and
an Azure Kingfisher in a tree in the Orara River. A constantly begging juvenile Shining
Bronze-Cuckoo was being fed by a Brown Thornbill and a juvenile Fan-tailed
Cuckoo appeared to be being fed by a Grey Fantail. Two Eastern Water Dragons, two Short-necked
Turtles and few Garden Sun-skinks were the reptiles observed.
The full list follows: birds: Pacific Black Duck,
Bar-shouldered Dove, Wonga Pigeon, Little Pied Cormorant, Eastern Great Egret,
Cattle Egret, Pacific Baza, White-bellied Sea-Eagle, Little Corella, Pheasant
Coucal, Eastern Koel, Channel-billed Cuckoo, Shining Bronze-Cuckoo, Fan-tailed
Cuckoo, Azure Kingfisher, Laughing Kookaburra, Sacred Kingfisher, Rainbow
Bee-eater, Dollarbird, Brown Gerygone, Brown Thornbill, Lewin’s Honeyeater,
Brown Honeyeater, White-throated Honeyeater, Noisy Friarbird, Little Friarbird,
Eastern Whipbird, Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike, Cicadabird, Varied Triller, Little
Shrike-thrush, Grey Shrike-thrush, Australasian Figbird, Olive-backed Oriole,
Australian Magpie, Rufous fantail, Grey Fantail, Torresian Crow, Eastern Yellow
Robin, Silvereye, Mistletoebird, Reptiles: Short-necked Turtle, Eastern
Water Dragon, Garden Sun-skink.
A number of interesting invertebrates (dragonflies and cicadas) were
observed and photographed.
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| Razor Grinder (cicada) |
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| Razor Grinder (ventral view) |
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| Red Dragonfly at Orara River |
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| Grey Dragonfly at Orara River |
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