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Australia New South Wales & Tasmania AUSTRALIA NEW SOUTH WALES & TASMANIA ORNITHOLOGICAL REPORT 5th DECEMBER 2007 – 2 JANUARY 2008 Tom Goossens Susanne Jacops Photograph cover – female Plains Wanderer – Deniliquin – December 2007 FIRST PAGE After 2 visits to Australia, the last being Western Australia in 2002, the country was calling me again and we decided to head back there. This time we would concentrate on New South Wales and Tasmania. The aim for Tasmania was to see it’s 12 endemic species in which we succeeded in just 4 days. Furthermore I wanted to see some species in New South Wales which I didn’t see on my 1996 trip. A big bummer was Barrington Tops with no sign of Rufous Scrub-bird and very few birds around. Inland New South Wales was plagued by several years of drought so that many birds were gone from their traditional places. We didn’t even see any Owlet Nightjars around Deniliquin. According to Phil Maher they had very bad times due to the long dry weather, so far 7 years of drought. Everything was so dry that even the Plains Wanderers had moved from their usual plains. If you want to hit the birds in inland Australia it is crucial to have some up-to-date info and best even to wait the right wetter-years. A good way to stay in contact with what goes around in birding Australia is to check in on the Birding- Aus-website or even register on their mailing-list www.shc.melb.catholic.edu.au/home/birding/index Thanks are due to my girlfriend Susanne Jacops for her great company and support. Furthermore I have to thank the people who send me their reports, gave me extra information or lend me some books being Peter and Erwin Collaerts, Stijn De Win, Maarten Jacobs, Wim Heylen, Justin Jansen and David Van Den Schoor. GENERAL INFORMATION FLIGHT AND VISA We booked our flights through Aussietours (www.aussietours.be) and flew with British Airways and Qantas from Brussels to Sydney. We also booked an internal flight from Sydney to Hobart and back. We also pre-booked a flight to Melaleuca with Paravion (www.paravion.com.au) to see Orange-bellied Parrot. A visa is required for Australia. Our travel-agency provided us with an electronic visa. MONEY The currency in Australia is the Australian Dollar. During our stay the exchange rate was 1 € = 1,65 AU$ . We brought cash and our VISA-card with us. VISA is widely accepted. ACCOMMODATION & CAR RENTAL There is plenty of accommodation in Australia. Hotels are of high standard equal to Europe. There are also in every town caravan parks where you can stay with your camper or tent or also stay in self- contained cabins. In more touristy places there are backpacker hotels where you can stay dormitory stile. In our day report we state where we stayed each night. DRIVING Driving is on the left. The roads were generally good to very good. Be careful driving on gravel roads. Always are alert for dust-holes, these are invisible holes filled with very fine sand that act like water if you drive into it. When driving in the interior watch out for road-trains (big trucks pulling 3 or more trailers driving 110 km/hour!). When you approach keep most left because the sides of the roads are often very gravely and when a road train has to move a bit off road a rain of gravel will follow and will smash your windshield! Driving at night in the outback should be limited because of possible close encounters with kangaroos and loose cattle on the road. An international drivers licence combined with your national drivers licence is required. FOOD & HEALTH We didn’t encounter any problems whatsoever. No immunisations are required. DANGERS & ANNOYANCES We didn’t come into any dangerous situations. You should always bear in mind that you are in a country with poisonous snakes and also poisonous spiders. Driving at night in the outback should be limited because of possible close encounters with kangaroos and loose cattle on the road. WEATHER This time of year is the austral summer. During our stay we had quite a bit of rain. Tasmania could be chilly and amazingly also our stay in Deniliquin was very windy and even cold! Be prepared for daytime temperatures that can vary between 18°C and 40°C depending on places. We had temperatures of 18°C in Tasmania, Melbourne and Deniliquin and 30°C+ in Round Hill. Just after our visit in Melbourne temperatures rose until 40°C+! ITINERARY AUSTRALIA 2007-2008 wed 05/dec Brussel - Londen - Sydney thu 06/dec Arrival Sydney in the evening fri 07/dec Sydney - city sightseeing and visit to Botanical Gardens sat 08/dec Sydney 08.45h - Hobart 10.35h – scenic flight to Melaleuca sun 09/dec Tasmania - Peter Murell reserve - Bruny Island mon 10/dec Tasmania - Bruny Island tue 11/dec Tasmania - Bruny island - Mount Wellington - Hobart wed 12/dec Hobart 06.20h - Sydney 08.05h - Dharug NP thu 13/dec Dharug NP – drive to Barrington Tops NP fri 14/dec Barrington Tops – drive to Nambucca Heads sat 15/dec Nambucca Heads sun 16/dec Drive to Dorrigo NP - Cathedral Rock NP - drive to Warrabungle NP mon 17/dec Warrabungle NP tue 18/dec Warrabungle NP – drive to Round Hill NP wed 19/dec Round Hill NP thu 20/dec Round Hill NP – drive to Deniliquin fri 21/dec Deniliquin sat 22/dec Deniliquin – birding with Phil Maher sun 23/dec Deniliquin – drive to Great Ocean Road mon 24/dec Great Ocean Road – drive to Melbourne visit family tue 25/dec Melbourne visit family wed 26/dec Melbourne – drive to Wodonga/Chiltern State Forest thu 27/dec Wodonga – drive to Jenolan Caves – drive to Capertee fri 28/dec Capertee Valley – drive to Katoomba sat 29/dec Katoomba – drive to Barren Grounds sun 30/dec Barren Grounds – drive to Sydney mon 31/dec Sydney tue 01/jan Sydney 18.05h - London wed 02/jan London 06.25h - Brussels 11.05h TASMANIA The island of Tasmania lies off the south coast of Australia, and is a destination well worth the visit of anyone visiting Australia. Not only is the island wetter and greener than most of Australia (and is reminiscent of New Zealand, or even Britain), but it holds many interesting bird species. Tasmania has twelve species of bird which are found nowhere else on Earth (i.e. endemic birds). There are also a number of species which are endemic at the subspecies level, such as the threatened Wedge-tailed Eagle and a number of species which are known as breeding endemics. Breeding endemics breed only in Tasmania and migrate to mainland Australia outside the breeding season. The endangered Orange-bellied Parrot and Swift Parrot are two such species. Tasmanian Endemics: Tasmanian native hen Gallinula mortierii Green rosella Platycercus caledonicus Dusky robin Melanodryas vittata Tasmanian thornbill Acanthiza ewingii Scrubtit Acanthornis magnus Tasmanian (Brown) scrubwren Sericornis humilus Yellow wattlebird Anthochaera paradoxa Yellow-throated honeyeater Lichenostomus flavicollis Black-headed honeyeater Melithreptus affinus Strong-billed honeyeater Melithreptus validirostris Black currawong Strepera fuliginosa Forty-spotted pardalote Pardalotus quadragintus We included 3 ½ days in our itinerary in order to see the Tassie endemics. We concentrated our efforts in the vicinity of Hobart (Mount Wellington, Peter Murell Reserve), Bruny Island and also included a flight to Southwest NP in order to see Orange-bellied Parrot. We succeeded in seeing all the endemics. We tried for the Tasmanian subspecies of Masked Owl but did not see any, mainly because we did not have good directions of where to find this future split-subspecies. PETER MURELL RESERVE The Peter Murell Reserve is one of the best places on mainland Tasmania to find Forty-spotted Pardalote and many other Tassie-endemics. To find the reserve take the Channel Highway south out of Hobart towards Kingston, Margate and Snug (what a great name). After passing the Antarctic Division (at Kingston) take the Huntingfield Avenue turn on the left into an industrial estate. Continue along the road until you see the Vodaphone factory on your left, just past the factory turn left at the boundary fence. This entrance has a Peter Murrell Reserves sign on it, follow the dirt road down to Penryn Pond and park here. The pond is on your right. There are some walking tracks here. For a map of these tracks see: www.parks.tas.gov.au/publications/tech/murrellFMP/summary.html I concentrated my efforts around the pond. Tasmanian Native-hens were all around. Yellow-throated Honyeater, Black-headed Honye-eater, Yellow Wattlebird and Green Rosella were fairly easy. I walked around the pond and played the sound of Forty-spotted Pardalote. After a few tries, 2 birds came in and showed very well. I also tried playing the call of Dusky Robin and soon had 2 popping up! MOUNT WELLINGTON This is a mountain in close vicinity (10-15km) of Hobart with nice views over the capital-city. SUMMIT It is possible to drive up to Mount Wellington when road conditions are good. Up the mountain we saw Black Currawong and several Crescent Honeyeaters were calling. FERN GLADE TRACK Nearby the beginning of the summit-road towards Mount Wellington there is a small settlement called Ferntree. Behind the church there is a lovely walking track along which you can see Scrubtit and Pink Robin. We failed to find the Scrubtit here but we didn’t put in a lot of effort because we already saw it on Bruny Island. We taped in a beautifull male Pink Robin here.
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