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COWRA COMMENTS a Quarterly Newsletter of the Cowra Woodland Birds Program COWRA COMMENTS A quarterly newsletter of the Cowra Woodland Birds Program ISSUE Thirty – April 2017 Welcome to 2017 surveys. The Cowra Woodland Birds Program is a As most of you will know, the Summer survey had to be cancelled at series of projects aimed at reversing the decline of woodland birds in the region. the last minute due to ‘extreme weather’ conditions so we are starting The projects are focused on scientific a new regular Ramblings from the Chair or Committee Babblers to research and the management of birds keep everyone up-to-date. in their woodland habitats. They involve Ramblings from the Chair – John Rankin the local landholders and managers, the Cowra Shire Council as well as local It seems to be a long time since our last surveys in October. The 43 birdwatchers and members of BirdLife degree days put the kibosh on our summer survey and did not do a lot Southern NSW and other birding clubs. for our statistics either. In October we gave strong support to Cowra Shire Council‘s Bird Week 2017 CWBP committee program. On the Saturday afternoon of the surveys we provided lunch John Rankin - Chair Neale Coutanche Vice-chair to interested members of the public followed with a very well Vanessa Caine received talk by Julian and a hilarious quiz staged by Frenchie and Dan Florance Chaddy. The following Wednesday Neale spoke to a’ Science in the Nick Nicholls Pub’ audience giving a repeat of the successful talk about the CWBP Joy Pegler he gave to the ‘Hollows for Habitat’ forum in Orange a few weeks Madeleine Rankin Julian Reid earlier. Maret Vesk The Dunbogan Drongos again challenged the other Twitchathon competitors with an impressive 194 sightings between Port Macquarie and Condoblin. Sue, Peter and Chaddy built on their reputation as Malcolm Fyfe – survey successful fundraisers and enjoyed themselves in the process. co-ordinator We now have fifteen years of information in our data base. The committee led by Julian is seeking funding to analyze it. Any ideas of Contact: John Rankin Phone: (02) 6342 9282 where we might look would be gratefully accepted. [email protected] Mark Ley recently gave us an interesting talk on field recording using or apps. This got us thinking that maybe we should move in that BirdLife Southern NSW direction for field recording and data base entry. Rex Schmidt has Phone: (02) 9647 1033 done a lot of work on this issue and we have had input from Garry [email protected] Germon and Peter West. If we make any changes we all need to be Postal Address: comfortable with them so your thoughts please. CWBP, It was great to hear from Kate Ravich one of our initial committee BirdLife Discovery Centre, members back in 2001. Kate is using the CWBP model to develop a Newington Armory project for King Island‘s birds. Launch of ‘Wings on King’ will be in late 1 Jamieson St Sydney Olympic Park 2127 April. Neale, Maret and Mart are attending and Neale will be giving a talk about how the CWBP is structured and operates. We have just completed revising and reprinting the ‘Bird Routes of Cowra District’ pamphlet. The new version with cover photo by John French is available from the Cowra Visitors Center . Thank you to Cowra Shire Council for picking up most of the tab. We are working with others on a number of potential projects for the Newsletter editor: benefit of Cowra’s birds. The Office of Environment and Heritage is Maret Vesk looking at Cowra Shire as a locality for a conservation project [email protected] protecting woodland birds. Funding for The Great Eastern Ranges and the Kanangra-Boyd to Wyangala Link [K2W] projects is coming to an end. We are involved in discussions aimed at revitalizing the K2W project and to extending its work it further into Cowra Shire. Perfect autumn weather in Cowra at the moment so those who are coming to the survey are in for some great birding. Survey dates for 2017 22/23 April 22/23 July 14/15 October Contact Malcolm Fyfe on (02) 4471 8757 or [email protected] EVENTS FOR YOUR DIARY June 10 to 23 July Blue Mountains Botanic Garden - Mt Tomah 'Art From The Birds - Nests & Bowers' Exhibition by Fiona Lumsden Nature Art Workshop - Sun 16 July - $100 - limited places RANKIN SPRINGS GLOSSY BLACK- COCKATOO COUNT 6th to 8 th October - further details on page 3 Splendid Fairy-wrens ©Rex Schmidt KEY BIODIVERSITY AREA BIRD We have some reports of other birding events in the neighbouring SURVEYS AROUND GRENFEL 7 districts – first the Rankin Springs Glossy Black Cockatoo Count in The dates for the next bird surveys February and the Birding NSW Grenfell KBA Surveys in March, also around Grenfell is September 22- some great photos for everyone to enjoy. 24 . New surveyors are always welcome. If you would like to Rankins Springs February 2017 receive further information about these survey weekends, please Rex Schmidt contact Elisabeth Karplus at In February, the weekend after Cowra surveys would have been held [email protected] had they not been cancelled because of extreme heat, the Lachlan Fold Wildlife Action Group carried out a census of Glossy Black 2017 Australasian Bird Fair and Cockatoos in the Rankins Springs area. This drew local volunteers, as well as others from the Murrumbidgee Field Naturalists, and even Wildlife Expo 3-5 November 2017 some fearless Cowra surveyors. (For the most part these were Sydney Olympic Park, Sydney, people who in the past have attended the Rankins Springs Birds of Australia the Bush Festival.) The Lachlan Fold Wildlife Action Group for some years now has been The Threatened Bird Network has been operating in the Rankins Springs area with the aim of creating a produced another publication, sustainable habitat for native species, particularly the Glossy Black Woodland Birds of south-east Cockatoo and other threatened species. As part of its activities it has Australia — Identification Booklet . begun conducting surveys of Glossy Black Cockatoos with the aim of An electronic version of the woodland bird guide is available determining the population in the area, and assessing its growth or from the website; simply click decline, which may be useful in assisting future management. They through to have also been involved with identifying the watering sites and flight www.birdlife.org.au/projects/threaten routes, as well as setting up nesting boxes in the hope of improving ed-bird-network/tbn-latest-news . breeding opportunities for these birds. Rankins Springs has suitable habitat for Glossy Black Cockatoos both in various National Parks and on private land holdings: Glossy Blacks are entirely seed eaters, relying heavily on Allocasurina stricta growing on stony ridges, rocky outcrops and mountain slopes not at all suitable for grazing or cultivation. However, they are reliant on large old Grey Box or Yellow Box to provide nesting sites. They need hollows in large trunks, often vertical, which can be in dead trees. These large trees grow most often lower down the ridges where the soil is deeper and suitable for cultivation, and where consequently many of the trees have been cleared, reducing the breeding sites available to the birds. As seed eaters Glossy Black Cockatoos must drink every day, usually only once a day at dusk, which at this time of the year is between 6:00pm and 8:00pm. They also tend to return to the same watering hole(s), so this makes for an obvious survey protocol: locate known or likely water sources, put someone there between about 6:00pm and sunset, and record the birds which turn up, taking photos of the females, if possible, because the facial markings are unique to each individual bird. You just have to find people willing to sit at each spot waiting for the birds to arrive until the sun goes down. On Friday and Saturday we all gathered at the Rankins Springs Hall in the afternoon and were allocated a dam (one person per dam to cover as many dams as possible). It's a very peaceful way to spend part of an evening. The birds tend to fly in to an exposed landing spot like a dead tree to check things out before coming in to water, so you try to pick where that is likely to be, select an unobtrusive spot where you can observe that and the water hole, settle down on your deckchair, and wait. As well as any Glossy Blacks that turn up, you get to watch all the other activity at that spot. One of the dams I was allocated attracted 18 other species as well as a kangaroo and a goanna, so there was always something going on. Most of the Glossy Blacks arrive between 7:15pm and 8:00pm - usually you hear them before you see them, rusty-gate- hinging their way to the dam. By 8:10pm the sun is gone - it’s time to go back to the hall in town for drinks, a barbecue and a tally of the results. This count over 100 birds were counted, spread across the various survey sites. For birders the good thing about this arrangement is that the days are free for you to go birding, and Rankins Springs is not short of good places to go. Part of Saturday was spent on a patch of mallee a few kilometres out of town where the very wet spring had resulted in green vegetation and prolific flowering, so there were plenty of honeyeaters, particularly Black Honeyeaters including a lot of juveniles; it seems odd to be in an area where these are the dominant honeyeater, but the blacks far outnumbered any other species seen.
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