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Birds South East Birds South East Number 90 May 2020 Keel-billed Toucan Cassie’s adventures in Mexico Contents 1. Cassie’s adventures in Mexico For a long time, I’ve dreamt of volunteering abroad 5. Oaklands Wetland and Reserve on a wildlife research project. In June last year that 6. Reporting Rare Birds in South Australia dream became reality when I was offered a place as 8. Results from the Red-tailed Black Cockatoo ‘Look an ornithologist with Operation Wallacea in Mexico. to the Skies Event’ Operation Wallacea is a UK based conservation 9. BirdLife SE SA 2020 Committee Elections Wayne’s Convenor Report organisation which undertakes biological surveys in 10. BirdLife SE SA 2020 AGM diverse and important parts of the world which have typically not been well-studied. The survey work is 11. BirdLife SE SA Income & Expenditure/Quiz mostly funded by school and university students 12. Shorebird Notes who participate in the surveys, and in exchange 13. Contacts/Deadlines/Program they receive an immersive education experience. Subject specialists such as ornithologists, bat 14. Recent Sightings scientists, herpetologists and botanists 6. Wansa sa ndidn aa sa ndidn am reriad Birds South East volunteer their time to lead the surveys and educate the students. I was part of the bird survey team and spent an amazing five weeks at three different camps in the Mexican jungle in Calakmul Biosphere Reserve. With only a couple of months to prepare I was in a flap, ordering two books of birds of Mexico and spending every spare minute perusing the enormous books trying desperately to learn how to recognise the 300 or so birds found in the reserve. Two months went by in a flash, and before I knew it, I was kissing goodbye my husband, internet, and Wedge-tailed phone service, running water and all the comforts of my usual life, and venturing off to the hot and Sabre-wing humid jungle. Calakmul Biosphere Reserve is located in the Some mornings, I would undertake point counts Campeche State of Mexico on the Yucatan along a 2km transect and record the calls at defined Peninsula. It is one of the largest expanses of locations. It was a peaceful walk through the jungle tropical jungle in the world, second only to the and provided a good opportunity to birdwatch, with Amazon. The reserve has an incredible diversity of an added edge in the possibility of coming across wildlife and also contains fascinating ancient Mayan jaguars and pumas. Fortunately, I only came across ruins nestled amongst the forest. peccaries, and spider monkeys who would throw things and jump on branches above me until they Despite being in a tropical paradise this trip was broke and fell on my head! definitely not a holiday. Our team would be out of our hammocks at 4.30am for a cold cup of instant The first camp I visited was called KM 20 and was a coffee, before trekking out to our survey transects great spot to see Keel-billed Toucans, whose to set up mist nets in the dark, often dragging tired croaking frog-like call could be heard in the students behind us. We would then spend about 3 mornings and late afternoons. These incredible birds or 4 hours checking the nets until it got too warm. have a spectacular rainbow-coloured bill - it was Birds were identified, measured, marked hard to believe they are real. Also impressive were temporarily and released and it was a great the collared aracari, a smaller type of toucan. I also opportunity to see some of the smaller more cryptic was lucky to see two species of motmot, a brightly birds up close. One of the most exciting was the coloured bird a bit like a large rainbow bee-eater. first wedge-tailed sabre-wing (hummingbird) of the Another favourite bird was the adorable stub-tailed survey; I shook with nerves while extracting the spadebill. These cute little brown birds were fragile, 4 gram bird from the net. perfectly adapted for catching insects with their big eyes, whiskers and a wide bill. At night it was important to carry a torch and tread carefully as tarantulas and scorpions were everywhere around camp. It was also important to do a daily check for ticks – I removed over 40 during my stay. 2 Birds South East Birds South East I was happy to hear that I would be spending the next two weeks at the most remote camp called Dos Naciones which translates to two nations as it was close to the border with Guatemala. To get there we had to carry our packs and hike up a steep track through humid jungle. This camp was very basic as everything had to be carried up from the village below. We collected our water using tarpaulins which ran into small tanks. We were allocated just 1.5 litres of water per day to wash with, of which every drop was used carefully. We slept in hammocks which took some getting used to. Blue-crowned Motmot Red-capped Mannakin Processing a bird Camp The second camp I visited was adjacent to a small We collected our water using tarpaulins which ran village called Mancolona. The open habitats gave into small tanks. We were allocated just 1.5 litres of the chance to see species not found in the dense water per day to wash with, of which every drop jungle, including many hummingbirds, was used carefully. We slept in hammocks which woodpeckers, orioles and vultures. This camp was took some getting used to. also a great place to spot brightly coloured Trogons, - five species in different combinations of yellow, This forest was more humid and diverse than the red, blue and green. We enjoyed our afternoon other sites I’d visited and there was a different suite birdwatching walks with the students, especially of species here, including many which I was really because we could buy a cold drink in the village at hoping to see during my time in Mexico. The the end of it. ominous call of howler monkeys was a daily occurrence. May 2020 3 Birds South East Barred Ant-shrike Emerald Toucanet I was also thrilled to see stunning birds such as blue One afternoon I noticed a Royal Flycatcher’s nest bunting, red-legged honeycreeper, tody motmot above a small wetland, known as an aguada. The and barred ant shrike. One very special bird that I flycatcher’s deter predators from their nests by managed to spot was an emerald honeycreeper building them so they dangle from branches on a which was out of its usual range and was a new single long thin strand. At first glance these birds record for the reserve. seem to be a plain brown but every so often they would flash their brilliant red or orange crests to dissuade a competitor. These stunning birds were one of my favourites from the trip. Royal Flycatcher. Photo: Tom Ambrose/CC BY-SA https://creativecommons.org/licences/by-sa/4.0 4 Birds South East Birds South East OAKLANDS WETLAND AND RESERVE– A MUST SEE BIRDING AND WETLAND LOCATION The large gums surrounding the park were home to a host of parrots, lorikeets, and cockatoos with a few special visitors. The waterbirds were plentiful in Recently, I was in Adelaide to support a family numbers and one of my favourites the Australasian member while in hospital, and had a morning free Grebe was in all sections of the wetland. The park this particular day, so decided I’d like to head to a facilities/amenities and cleanliness are top shelf too. ‘nice spot with water’. Wasn’t sure what was on If you haven’t been to Oaklands Wetland, you offer but managed to stumble across Oaklands should go when next in Adelaide. Wetland (Ascot Park/Marian area). Well, what a Bryan Haywood gem. Lovely people everywhere doing the family/exercise thing, and the wetland vegetation (created of course) was amazing, diverse and fit for purpose offering lots of little nooks and crannies for birdlife (and insects) to hang out. Sulphur-crested Cockatoo Bryan Haywood Oaklands Wetland Bryan Haywood Australasian Grebe Bryan Haywood May 2020 5 Birds South East REPORTING RARE BIRDS IN SOUTH when watching waders but it may not be so when watching bush birds or seabirds. Approaches vary; AUSTRALIA some take notes very quickly while the bird is in front of them; others try to absorb every detail (Taken from Birds SA website) before writing it down, preferring to spend every opportune second looking at the bird rather than at a notebook. Do whatever works best for you. The If you see something that fits the criteria, please key thing is to get notes down as soon as possible, submit a records, a number of our local birdos have and in particular, before you have consulted any had records appraised and confirmed by the literature that might subconsciously distort the committee. memories of what you actually saw. Why submit a record to the South Australian Sketches can be valuable and, while some bird Rarities Committee? observers are better at sketching than others, Birds SA aims to maintain a standard of rigour to anyone can improve with practice, and annotations rare bird sightings through the South Australian can go a long way to cover any shortcomings. Rarities Committee (SARC) and seeks reports for any bird listed on the South Australian Rare Birds Taking notes Review List or any bird new to the State. Taking detailed notes can help clinch a rare bird sighting if the notes refer to key features of that Records of rarities are of value to the ornithological particular species.
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