Thursday, February 5, 2015

Migrant departures from Carwoola

I have previously posted about migrant arrivals.  This post looks at the other, trickier, end of the spectrum: when do the birds move off?  A summary is given in this image (the colour scheme is explained below):
In summary, 9 species - the first listed above  - are likely to have left already.  Any sightings of those species would be of interest to me (and hopefully others).  Another 5 species are likely to be of interest to us in February.  These are  Shining Bronze-Cuckoo;Pallid Cuckoo; Western Gerygone, and Australian Reed Warbler as departures and Rufous Fantail being observed on passage.

To the detail!  This table shows the data I have for this project for all species defined by COG as a migrant.

  • Some of these species (eg the Pardalotes and Yellow-faced Honeyeater) seem to be recorded more or less year round in Carwoola so have been struck through.  
  • Typical migrants have the month of departure shown in orange (with yellow denoting a second month with several observations);
  • Blue shows the species I regard as passage migrants- we only tend to see them as they pass through on their trip from the Brindabellas to the Coast and points North.
  • The Shelduck is a species which tends to mugrate to this area in Winter, after breeding in the Mountains.


species jan feb mar apr may jun
Australian Shelduck 1 3 2 5 4 6
White-throated Needletail 4 4 6
Fork-tailed swift 1
Collared Sparrowhawk 3 3 2 2 1
Australian Hobby 2 2 4 1 1 2
Australian Koel 1
Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo 5 2 1
Black-eared Cuckoo 1
Shining Bronze-cuckoo 5 5 2 2
Pallid Cuckoo 6 4 1
Fan-tailed Cuckoo 5 3 2 2 1
Brush Cuckoo 5 1
Sacred Kingfisher 7 2 2 1
Rainbow Bee-eater 1 1 3
Dollarbird 3 1
Western gerygone 4 5 3 1
White-throated gerygone 7 8 8 3
Spotted pardalote 7 8 7 7 8 8
Striated pardalote 7 7 7 7 7 8
Yellow-faced honeyeater 7 8 8 7 7 4
White-naped honeyeater 1 2 5 4 6 2
Noisy friarbird 7 8 7 2 1
White-winged triller 5 2
Rufous whistler 7 8 7 6 3 2
Olive-backed oriole 4 3 3 2
Masked Woodswallow 1
White-browed woodswallow 1 1
Dusky woodswallow 7 8 8 7 6 2
Rufous Fantail 2 1 1
Grey fantail 7 8 8 7 6 5
Leaden flycatcher 7 8 5
Satin Flycatcher 1
Australian Reed-warbler 5 4
Rufous songlark 3
Brown Songlark 2 1
Fairy Martin 6 3 1
Tree Martin 7 7 7 2 2 1

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