I think I recall someone asking a little while ago a question concerning longevity of Australian birds. For those interested in this the following has been extracted from the Australian Bird Study Association website - http://www.absa.asn.au/ Details of the longest recovered movements for these species is also given. It is important not to confuse longevity of these banded birds with average lifespan. These are very different things. Just as some humans can live long past the average life expectancy so can some birds. Australian birds tend to live much longer than comparable northern hemisphere birds. David Geering Magpie Goose 24.10 yrs 450km Black Swan 24.8 yrs 966km Cape Barron Goose 18.0 yrs 290km Aust. Shelduck 13.1yrs 940km Pacific Black Duck 15.5yrs 1424 km Grey Teal 31.8yrs 3170km Short-tailed Shearwater 37.9yrs 12713km Wandering Albatross 39.1yrs 12398km Little Eagle 25.11yrs 580km Brown Falcon 18.0yrs 2047km Red-necked Stint 18.1yrs 12491km Curlew Sandpiper 18.1yrs 11812km Red-capped Plover 20.11yrs 837km Silver Gull 28.8yrs 2186km Crested Tern 30.2yrs 1935km Bar-shouldered Dove 13.11yrs 38km Galah 20.4yrs 476km Rainbow Lorikeet 20.6yrs 63km White-throated Tree-creeper 15.11 yrs Brown Tree-creeper 13.11yrs Superb Fairy-wren 10.5yrs 56km White-browed Scrub-wren 16.2yrs 30km Large-billed Scrub-wren 15.3yrs Brown Thornbill 17.5yrs 4.8km Striated Thornbill 14.7yrs 1.6km Little Wattlebird 14.4yrs 37km Regent Honeyeater 9.11yrs 269km Lewins Honeyeater 13.0yrs 108km Yellow-faced Honeyeater 12.1yrs 756km Yellow-tufted Honeyeater 15.3yrs 21km Fuscous Honeyeater 14.1km 12km New Holland Honeyeater 14.5yrs 170km Scarlet Robin 10.1yrs Eastern Yellow Robin 12.2yrs White-browed Babbler 14.5yrs Eastern Shrike-tit 13.9yrs 3km Golden Whistler 15.2yrs 201km Grey Shrike-thrush 12.6yrs 23km Figbird 16.8yrs 103km Grey Butcherbird 18.9yrs 10km Australian Magpie 23.9yrs 16km Regent Bowerbird 17.2yrs (this bird was in full male plumage when banded) 7km Satin Bowerbird 12.5yrs 55km European Goldfinch 7.0yrs 232km Red-browed Finch 8.6yrs 42km Silvereye 10.7yrs 1601km This message is intended for the addressee named and may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it and notify the sender. Views expressed in this message may be those of the individual sender, and are not necessarily the views of the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service. Birding-Aus is on the Web at www.shc.melb.catholic.edu.au/home/birding/index.html To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe birding-aus" (no quotes, no Subject line) to