I agree with Tony Keene on this. The IOC have a great set of rules but end up with a lousy set of names – particularly for Australian birds. Bird Life International maintain a very good world list with “under review” and “not recognised” for questionable names. I use a world list built from the … Read more
Technically you are correct. In that this is part of the rules for scientific names. Common names do not go by the same rules. However they do tend to follow those rules if possible and convenient, but this is a much greyer area. For example we talk of true moles or true magpies or true … Read more
Nick & Liz Livanos, Robert Kilkelly and I are heading up to the Cairns area on the 19th of this month. We’ve never birded the area although have quite a few endemics from a Townsville/Paluma trip 3 years ago. We only have 4 full days for birding (2 nights in Cairns, 3 at Kingfisher Park) … Read more
Hi, Thank you enormously for your quick responses. The Australian birding community never ceases to amaze … the information you’ve provided will be invaluable market research. It’s going to be a huge help to the CLC and others, who are trying to find out if this might work. The responses have been very informative and … Read more
Dear All Why would ya pay $1600 to see a Princess Parrot when in a couple a month’s they could be as common as Grey Falcons!! I saw 2 probable Grey Falcons the day before also!!! The Centre is amazing!!! Go now!! Have fun Steve Another Grey Falcon in Alice Springs… from [ http://bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au/archives/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?query=%2Bfr om%3Aroadkill.chronicles%40gmail.com&idxname=birding-aus&sort=date%3Alate> … Read more