Birdlife Aust GWW Bird Count - Tracks Info Needed

Submitted: Monday, Jul 28, 2014 at 16:53

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Member - John Baas (WA)

Hi all,

I'm off next week to assist with counting birds in the Great Western Woodlands east of Norseman. I am looking for trcks in survey blocks that have not yet had counts conducted.

I am particularly interested in whether the 'green' track circled in black exists or not. GoogleEarth shows it faintly in some parts, but the imagery is from 2005 unfortunately.

Birdlife Project Tracks

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Reply By: Member - Frank P (NSW) - Monday, Jul 28, 2014 at 17:58

Monday, Jul 28, 2014 at 17:58

John,

Here are some screenshots from some maps in OziExplorer for Android on a Samsung 7.7 inch tablet:

All Aus at 250K - The track is below the cursor

EOTopo - the cursor is on the track

Aus 250K, Balladonia - the cursor is on the track

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Follow Up By: Member - John Baas (WA) - Monday, Jul 28, 2014 at 19:12

Monday, Jul 28, 2014 at 19:12

Thanks Frank.

Yes, I have the maps as well, but whether the tracks actually exist; that is the question.

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Reply By: The Explorer - Monday, Jul 28, 2014 at 19:19

Monday, Jul 28, 2014 at 19:19

Crikey John! Never realised until today that you were a birder..(spotted your record of a little egret on the sightings page). Good stuff - now we have maps and birds in common. I have submitted ~ 82 days of surveys and recorded 102 species for GWW project survey to date (couple more surveys I haven't sent in yet).

Malleefowl

Can't help with the track - looks very open in Google and MS Virtual Earth ..but as you indicate time since photo could be a factor. Do suspect DPaW keep it open as its one of the main access tracks into the Dundas Nature Reserve from the south (could be wrong just a guess).

Have a good trip.

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Greg

I sent one final shout after him to stick to the track, to which he replied “All right,” That was the last ever seen of Gibson - E Giles 23 April 1874

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Follow Up By: Member - John Baas (WA) - Monday, Jul 28, 2014 at 20:36

Monday, Jul 28, 2014 at 20:36

Hi Greg.

Thanks for that. I'm only a rank amateur birdo, but happy to help out on anything re GWW. I have lately been interested in waterfowl tho. Chk out Urban Bushland Council - Eric Singleton Reserve page UBC Eric Singleton Reserve page - I'm the website admin for the Council and have contributed many of the site images.

Re the track, I had chk'd with DPaW Esperance, but now looking at my emails again, I think I might have misunderstood their input. I'll re-chk.

Great pic!

Cheers.

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