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| Adult male Regent Bowerbird |
REPORT
ON BIRD BANDING AT ILUKA NATURE RESERVE
19-21.08.2017
Banders: Greg Clancy, Richard Allen,
Warren Martin, Suzi Bond and Jan Patterson
Assistants/Visitors:
Val Clancy, Saul Dixon, Tricia Griffin, Tony and Russell Jago
Banding was
carried out at the northern end of the Nature Reserve, off the Iluka Bluff
Road, on 19 & 20 August and at the southern end, off Long Street, on 21
August.
Seventy-three
birds were mist netted over the three day survey. Seven were retraps, having been banded
previously, and sixty-six were banded as first time captures.
The results
are shown in the table below.
SPECIES
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19/08/2017
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20/08/2017
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21/08/2017
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TOTALS
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Banded
Retrap
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Banded
Retrap
|
Banded
Retrap
|
Banded
Retrap
|
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Fan-tailed
Cuckoo
|
0
0
|
0 0
|
1 0
|
1
0
|
Grey
Fantail
|
3 0
|
0 0
|
0 0
|
3
0
|
Rufous
Fantail
|
3 0
|
1 2
|
3 0
|
7
2
|
Eastern
Yellow Robin
|
10
2
|
3 0
|
1 0
|
14
2
|
Golden
Whistler
|
0 1
|
1 0
|
1 0
|
2
1
|
Grey
Shrike-thrush
|
0
0
|
0 0
|
1 0
|
1
0
|
Little
Shrike-thrush
|
0 0
|
0 0
|
1 0
|
1
0
|
Varied
Triller
|
2 0
|
1 0
|
0 0
|
3
0
|
Brown
Gerygone
|
1 0
|
0 0
|
0 0
|
1
0
|
Brown
Thornbill
|
1 0
|
0 0
|
4 0
|
5 0
|
White-browed
Scrubwren
|
7 0
|
0 0
|
0 0
|
7
0
|
Large-billed
Scrubwren
|
2 1
|
0 1
|
1 0
|
3
2
|
Lewin’s
Honeyeater
|
11
0
|
1 0
|
3 0
|
15 0
|
Regent
Bowerbird
|
2 0
|
0 0
|
0 0
|
2
0
|
Little
Wattlebird
|
1 0
|
0 0
|
0 0
|
1
0
|
TOTALS
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43 4
|
7 3
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16 0
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66 7
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The seven
retraps comprised two Rufous Fantails, one carrying colour bands from Lindsey
Nietmann’s project, two Eastern Yellow Robins, one Golden Whistler and a
Large-billed Scrubwren retrapped twice.
All were originally banded at the site of recapture. Their banding and retrap details are as
follows:
Rufous Fantail
01A-03767
Banded (1+) by me on 13 Oct 2013, retrapped for the first time by
me
on 20 Aug 2017, over 3 years 10 months after banding;
01A-71012
Banded by Lindsey Nietmann on 12 Dec 2014 as part of her
Rufous
Fantail project with two yellow colour bands on the left tarsus and a numbered
alloy band on the right tarsus.
Retrapped by Warren Martin on 20 Aug 2017, over 2 years 8 months after
banding.
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| Adult Rufous Fantail |
Eastern Yellow Robin
026-65875
Banded (1+ male) by Alan Leishman on 17 Mar 2015, retrapped
by
Alan the following day and then by Richard Allen on 19 Aug 2017, over 2 years 5
months after banding; ;
026-94989
Banded (2+ male) by Cristina Buelow on 24 Aug 2014, retrapped
by
me on 19 Aug 2017,nearly 3 years after banding.
Large-billed Scrubwren
01A-03765
Banded (2+) by me on 12 Oct 2013.
Retrapped on 19 Aug 2017
by
Suzi Bond and on 20 Aug 2017 by Richard Allen, over 3 years 10 months after
banding.
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| Bill of Large-billed Scrubwren |
Interesting records
were of Rose-crowned Fruit-Doves calling in the Nature Reserve and a Noisy
Pitta and a Russet-tailed Thrush were seen along the Woody Head Road. A Russet-tailed Thrush and an Emerald Dove
were heard calling at Iluka South on 21 August. The Emerald Dove used to be regularly recorded at Iluka and Woody Head but records have been scarce in recent years. A road-killed Southern Boobook was collected from the Bluff Road intersection
on the Iluka Road as we left on the Monday.
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| Adult male Varied Triller |
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| Adult male Varied Triller |
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| First year male Varied Triller |
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| First year male Varied Triller showing underparts |
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| First year female Fan-tailed Cuckoo |
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| Head of first year female Fan-tailed Cuckoo |
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| Adult male Regent Bowerbird |
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Adult male Regent Bowerbird
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| Adult Little Shrike-thrush showing me how sharp its bill is |
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