________________________________ Fra: Vader Willem Jan Marinus Sendt: ti 11/23/2010 10:55 Kopi: Ebn (ebn@birdlife.fi); Sabirdnet (sabirdnet@lists.ukzn.ac.za); birdchat Emne: Argentina with Bird Guides 2. Rincon del Socorro ARGENTINA WITH BIRD GUIDES. 2. RINCON DEL SOCORRO Rincon del Socorro is a ranch that has been converted into a lodge, in the Ibera marshes in the province Corrientes in … Read more
Hi All, Last week we drove up the Birdsville track as far as Mungarannie. The track was closed from there to Birdsville. There were heavy rains when we left Adelaide and when we arrived at Lyndhurst both the Strzelecki and Birdsville Tracks were closed so we headed back into the Flinders Ranges for two terrific … Read more
The Wanganella swamp, about 40 km north of Deniliquin, NSW, just keeps on giving. Today there was a pair of Australian painted snipe the first I have seen at that locality for decades. Also, about half a dozen Latham¹s snipe were seen, dozens of pairs of black-winged stilts and quite a few red-kneed dotterels … Read more
Hi All, Further to Tim’s email this morning re the Princess Parrots, I run the group in the NT government that has been working with the CLC on Princess Parrots and I thought I’d provide an update. Two of our staff (Peter Nunn and Andrew Schubert) were at the site yesterday and this morning and … Read more
Yesterday while doing relief programs in the exclusion zone on Mount Merapi in Central Java I did a quick bird count. Yes there were still birds 3km’s from the summit despite the eruptions from 3-4 weeks ago and the continual raining of ash and rumblings we experienced. Swifts sp. – 100’s Fork-tailed swift – dozens. … Read more