Friday, August 24, 2012

Arrival of migrants

I compiled the table below to answer a query from a student at the Fenner School ANU.  I have put it here as it might be of interest to readers of this blog.

Entries are Month of first return
code species 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 AVGE
207 Australian shelduck 7 8 7 7 8 7 7
222 Collared sparrowhawk 7 8   7 8 7 7
235 Australian Hobby     8 11 7   9
318 Dollarbird 11 10 12 11 11 11
326 Sacred Kingfisher 9 10 10 10 11 10
329 Rainbow Bee-eater 11 11 11 11 11
334 White-throated needletail 12 12
337 Pallid Cuckoo 8 9 8 8 9   8
338 Fan-tailed Cuckoo 8 9 9 7 7 8 8
339 Brush Cuckoo 12 10 11 10 11 11
341 Black-eared Cuckoo 12 12
342 Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo 8 8 8 8 8 7 8
344 Shining Bronze-cuckoo 9 10 9 9 9 8 9
347 Eastern Koel 12 12 12 11 12
348 Channel-billed Cuckoo 12 11 11 11
359 Tree Martin 10 9 8 7 8 7 8
360 Fairy Martin 11 11 9 9 10
361 Grey fantail 9 7 7 7 7 8 8
365 Leaden flycatcher 11 10 9 10 9 10
401 Rufous whistler 10 7 9 9 8 7 8
430 White-winged triller 9 11 11 10
453 White-throated gerygone 9 10 9 9 9   9
463 Western gerygone 9 9 8 9 8   9
508 Brown Songlark 11 11
509 Rufous songlark 11 11 11 9 11 11
524 Australian reed-warbler 11 10 9 10
545 White-browed woodswallow 9 11 10
547 Dusky woodswallow 10 8 9 9 8 8 9
565 Spotted pardalote 7 7 7 7 8 8 7
578 White-naped honeyeater   7 7 7 9   8
614 Yellow-faced honeyeater 8 8 7 7 8 8 8
645 Noisy friarbird 10 9 9 9 8 8 9
671 Olive-backed oriole 8 8 8 8 9   8
976 Striated pardalote 9 7 8 7 7 7 8

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