[Birding-Aus] White-winged Fairy-wrens near Jondaryan/Oakey, QLD

[Chris Sanderson]

Hi all,

Stuart Warren and I made an attempt for the recently reported Painted
Honeyeaters near Jondaryan yesterday (and dipped), however a nice
consolation prize was a small party of White-winged Fairy-wrens on a small
dirt road between Oakey and Jondaryan. According to the Atlas of Australian
Birds this may be the eastern-most record of the species, though one dot on
the map exists near Amiens, west of Stanthorpe that may be equal depending
on where in the grid it falls. There are no records listed in Atlas from
the Oakey area at all.

I'd be keen to hear from anyone who has seen WWFW in this area before, or if
you haven't reported a sighting from this far east before. The exact
location can be found at:
http://aussiebirding.wildiaries.com/trips/10356/trip_days/10962/display -
the pin is on the right little dirt road, but probably not in exactly the
right spot. There is a description on the page to help you find the right
bushes.

Regards,
Chris Sanderson
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[Mick Roderick]

Chris,

If you look further south on Birdata you will see a dot near Quirindi, NSW.
White-winged Fairy-wrens live here and on the Breeza Plain which would be
roughly as far east as your birds. There are also "easterly"  Blue Bonnets
and Mallee Ringnecks in this area (plus recent records of Little Curlew and
Aussie Bustard).

Mick

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Subject: [Birding-Aus] White-winged Fairy-wrens near Jondaryan/Oakey, QLD

[rmacfarl]

By my atlas Oakey / Jondaryan are just west of the 152nd degree of latitude,
whereas Quirindi is west of the 151st, so Oakey wins... :-)

[Bill Jolly]

Yes, there are small populations of White-winged Fairywrens at a few sites in the scrubbier parts of that area to the north of the Warrego Highway roughly bounded by Oakey, Kaimkillenbun and Dalby.

Bluebonnets occur there too, as they often do alongside White-winged Fairywrens in other locations - and occasional Yellow-throated Miners.

This sort of thing parallels similar groupings of just two or three species that can be associated with a small nudge in the habitat, not amounting to a big shift in the avifauna, but just letting a few other spp make use of an area - you know "Where you see A you'll often see B" such as ground-feeding Banded Lapwings and Ground Cuckoo-shrikes, which will often utilise the same suitable paddock.

Bill Jolly

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[Tim Dolby]

>From what I can see there are two records of White-winged Fairy-wren east of Oakey. There were birds seen at 'Wingara' near Warwick, Queensland (5/17/2008), approximately parallel to Toowoomba. Not sure what the degree of latitude is.

Even more easterly there is a record from sunny NSW, in an area bordering the Clarence River (29°25'00"S 152°35'00"E), roughly northwest of Grafton. Again, I'm not sure what the degree of latitude is. Although this records dates back to the 1950's (8/25/1957), so it would be really interesting to see if they're still about.

Cheers,

Tim

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[david taylor]

Thats very interesting Bill, particularly the point about those three species often together - on my most recent visit to Mosquito Creek Rd at Inglewood I saw White-winged Fairy-wrens, Blue-bonnets and a couple of Yellow-throated Miners! This is the spot closest to Brisbane Ive personally seen WW Fairy-wrens and Blue-bonnets, though I think WW Fairy-wrens have been recorded on the roads west of Stanthorpe. Nice to hear of them near Oakey. Be interested to hear of any other sites others may have seen WW fairy-wrens and Blue-bonnets closest to Brisbane.

David Taylor
Brisbane
dam...@bigpond.net.au