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Western Australian Bird Notes Quarterly Newsletter of the Western Australian Branch of Birdlife Australia No Western Australian Bird Notes Quarterly Newsletter of the Western Australian Branch of BirdLife Australia No. 143 September 2012 Our Great Western Woodlands. See article, page 4. birds are in our nature Mulga Parrot, Eyre Mistletoebird at a (see report p34). nightshade plant see Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo, Twin Creeks Photo by Malcolm report p16). Photo Reserve, Albany (see report, p28). Photo by John and Fay Abbott by Barry Heinrich Dart First year Western Gerygone (see report, p18). Photos by Bill Rutherford The moult limit in the greater No moult limit is detectable in coverts of this 1st year Western this 1st year Western Gerygone Gerygone is discernible by the but note the contrast in the Shelduck duckling on longer length of greater coverts feather colour of the tertials its way to earth (see 1 and 2. and secondaries. report p23). Photo by John Nilson See corella report p22. Tags such as these are being used to help track corella movements. Photo by Jennie Corella wing tags are easy to spot, and are helping us learn about Stock flock movements. Photos by Jennie Stock Front cover (clockwise): 1. Gilbert’s Whistler, a species which has had a contraction of range in the wheatbelt, but still occurs in the Great Western Woodlands. Photo by Chris Tzaros (2) Woodlands in the vicinity of the Helena and Aurora Range. Photo by Cheryl Gole (3) Location of the Great Western Woodlands. See report, page 4 Page 2 Western Australian Bird Notes, No. 143 September 2012 Executive Committee 2012 Western Australian Branch of Chair: Suzanne Mather holds this position and was elected at BirdLife Australia the AGM in 2011. She has a Graduate Degree in Ornithology. As with all Executive Committee positions, this position is Office: Peregrine House elected at the AGM each year. 167 Perry Lakes Drive, Floreat WA 6014 Vice-Chair: Lorraine Marshall has a PhD in Medicine which Hours: Monday-Friday 9:30 am to 12.30 pm has led her recently into Health Management but she is now Telephone: (08) 9383 7749 retired and bringing these skills to BirdLife WA. E-mail: [email protected] Secretary: Graham Wooller is a retired company BirdLife WA web page: www.birdlife.org.au/wa secretary and has served on the EC since 2006. He is the Chair: Suzanne Mather representative on the Eyre Bird Observatory Committee and Tel: (08) 9389 6416 the Conservation Council of WA. E-mail: [email protected] Treasurer: Currently vacant. BirdLife Western Australia is the WA Branch of the national organisation, BirdLife Australia. We are dedicated to creating a Minute Secretary: Marion Massam has worked on bio- brighter future for Australian birds. security issues for over 20 years. She is a keen bird bander and watcher. General meetings: Held at the Bold Park Eco Centre, Perry Lakes Drive, Floreat, commencing 7:30 Committee pm on the 4th Monday of the month Wes Bancroft has a PhD in Zoology and works as an (except December) – see ‘Coming events’ environmental consultant and has served on the EC from for details 2000 to 2003. Executive meetings: Held at Peregrine House on the 2nd Wednesday of the month. Communicate John Graff has recently graduated with degrees in any matters for consideration to the conservation biology and commerce. He is a member of the Chair. Excursions Committee and the WA Records Committee, and organises the WA Twitchathon. Western Australian Bird Notes Piers Higgs as Director and founder of Gaia Resources, ISSN 1445-3983 couples his experience as an ecologist with information technology. He has served on and supported several BirdLife Joint WABN Editors: Allan Burbidge projects. Tel: (08) 9405 5109 (w) Tel/Fax: (08) 9306 1642 (h) Wayne Merritt has a longstanding interest in natural history Fax: (08) 9306 1641 (w) and conservation with native orchids a passion but a lifetime E-mail: [email protected] interest in birds. Suzanne Mather Frank O’Connor has an MBA with a background in Tel: (08) 9389 6416 computing systems and financial systems. He was previously E-mail: [email protected] on the BAWA EC from 2002 to 2009. He is a member of the Production: Margaret Philippson Community Education Committee and participates in many Printing and distribution: Daniels Printing Craftsmen other aspects of the organisation. Tel: (08) 9204 6800 danielspc.com.au Notes for Contributors The Editors request contributors to note: • WABN publishes material of interest to the WA Branch; • contributions should be written or typed with double spacing—a copy on disk or emailed would assist, especially if in MSWord as a document without styles; do not embed pictures or graphics in MS Word; • contributions to be sent direct to the Editors, either at the office or by email: C o n t e n t s Sue Mather: [email protected] Allan Burbidge: [email protected] 4. Birds in the Great 24. New members Western Woodlands • WABN uses BirdLife Australia recommended English names; 25. Notices 7. Letters to the Editors • except for Observations, contributions will be published unless 28. Country branches 8 Obituary the contributor is informed to the contrary. 31. Excursion reports • Full Editorial Policy is in WABN 74:10-12 9. Observations 34. Observatory reports 10. BirdLife WA reports 35. Coming events Printing Deadlines (at the BirdLife WA Office) 11. BirdLife WA projects 42. Opportunities for December 2012 issue: 1 November 13. The naming of birds volunteers March 2013 issue: 1 February June 2013 issue: 1 May 16. Members’ contributions 42 Crossword answers September 2013 issue: 1 August 24. Crossword 42. Calendar of events Western Australian Bird Notes, No. 143 September 2012 Page 3 Birds in the Great Western Woodlands BirdLife Australia, in partnership with The Nature Conservancy, has embarked on a brand new project to Figure 2. Percentage of bird surveys from each study the birds in the Great Western Woodlands. The Great data source. Western Woodlands is a 16 million hectare area incorporating much of the Goldfields, between the wheatbelt in the west and the Nullarbor in the east (see photo and map, front page). It is the largest intact Mediterranean woodland on Earth. Because of the size and remoteness of the area, little is known about the distribution and ecology of the birds, the impacts of introduced species, fire, and human disturbance, or how we should best manage the area to help conserve the birds present. As a result, BirdLife Australia will be studying the birds of the area over the next few years. BirdLife Australia will be conducting surveys throughout the Great Western Woodlands in each season to the end of 2014 and we need your help to get out there! If you’re interested in birdwatching in some spectacular parts of the state please contact the Project Coordinator, Liz Fox at liz.fox@birdlife. org.au or phone 0427 947 009. At the end of 2011 BirdLife Australia received an Environmental Community Grant from the WA Department of Environment and Conservation in order to collate existing bird data from the Great Western Woodlands, and to conduct community engagement. Below is the outcome of that grant. • DEC threatened fauna database Existing bird data • DEC fauna survey database In order to collate all previous bird records from within the • DEC waterbirds database Great Western Woodlands (GWW), a literature search was • Hooded Plover database conducted for all bird data recorded from within the GWW boundary. The search included the following: • Journal articles and reports • Environmental survey reports for mining companies, • Bird Atlas 1 (BirdLife Australia) conducted by consultants • Bird Atlas 2 (BirdLife Australia) • Unpublished data held by individuals • BirdLife WA database All data were collated into a single database. In total, the • Global Biodiversity Information Facility (online database database contains bird records from 3330 locations (Figure containing records from numerous museums and 1). Often more than one survey was conducted at a single institutes) location, resulting in a total of 5344 surveys conducted within the GWW, and a total of 57 214 individual bird records. The database does not yet contain Figure 1. All bird survey locations in the Great Western the data derived for this project from the Easter Woodlands. tagalong surveys (see below). Based on the number of surveys conducted, the BirdLife Australia Bird Atlasses contributed the highest number of records (Figure 2), with almost three quarters of the data coming from this volunteer sourced database. The Bird Atlas is an invaluable source of information as the data are recorded in a standard way, all recorded in a single database, and can be used for analysis many years later to answer questions not even considered when the bird surveys were first conducted. If you have any Bird Atlas forms lurking away in a cupboard somewhere, make sure to send them in as you never know when they will form a vital part of some analysis! The total number of bird species recorded from within the GWW is 206. This includes several rare species, such as a Yellow Bittern recorded from Kalgoorlie in 1967 (the first record of the species in Western Australia), and historical records of species now extinct from the region such as the Thick-billed Grasswren. Excluding these rare records, there are approximately 180 Page 4 Western Australian Bird Notes, No. 143 September 2012 Birds in the Great Western Woodlands, ctd ‘common’ species occurring in the GWW. The Weebill tops Perhaps most interestingly, in a region where many the list as the most recorded species in the region, followed thousands of Purple-crowned Lorikeets are often audible and by numerous honeyeaters (Table 1) — not surprising given visible when the woodland and mallee is in flower, there were that the Great Western Woodlands contains over 20% of only five scattered records across all the areas surveyed.
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