Talk:Silvereye

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I have added a couple of extra common names (White-eye, Wax-eye). I know these are widely used in NZ, but if they have no use in Australia they may need demoting from the opening para.

I don't want to march in and change it, but crossing the Bass Strait doesn't look too amazing in context of the migrations from Africa to Europe that are common in Old World northern hemisphere species - and probably New World too, but I don't know their patterns as well. This might want toning down a bit? seglea 21:17, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Bass Straight is a hell of a lot wider than the Straights of Gibralter, Seglea. It is by no means the most astonishing of non-stop crossings, but for a tiny land bird 200 to 400 kilometres of ocean at one hit is still pretty damn impressive.

On the common names, Silvereye is the official name in both Australia and NZ, so I'll change them around a bit. (I forgot NZ earlier.)

oh, ok, I didn't realise you meant sea crossings, that's probably fair enough - I was thinking about total distance flown. Of course quite a lot cross the Eastern Mediterranean, which is a good bit further than the gibraltar strait, and some fairly small species go over to Iceland, and I think also from northern UK straight to Scandinavia. But I'm not a great expert on migration routes, and everything I know suggests that they do minimise sea crossing if they can - I do know there's a flyway down from Scandinavia via Holland and Belgium then across to England, then down the west side of France, eastern Spain and on into Africa that way; and another all the way down Italy (where a lot get shot by Italians). seglea 00:33, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)