Just wondering if anyone can enlighten me? Do birds need to alternate legs to thermoregulate or can they use the same leg each time to do the job? I understand that the ‘rete mirabile’ transfers heat back and forth, but is alternation imperative or will the one leg do! I suspect it would but am … Read more
Invitation to anyone interested in waders. Free Shorebird Workshop, Bicentennial Park Education Centre (see attached map), Sunday 6th February 09:00 – 15:00 (coffee and cake from 08:30 for those still needing breakfast!). To commemorate World Wetlands Day 40th anniversary we are holding a free workshop/social get together on waders of the Sydney and southern NSW. … Read more
Update on access to Leanyer STP in Darwin. Regards, Chris
Hi All, When we moved to Northern NSW a couple of years ago, we found a fantastic house in a reserve that prohibited any cat and dog ownership. What particularly sold us on this house was the nesting pair of Bush Stone Curlews in the front garden and for our first summer here we delighted … Read more
Hi all, Frank O’Connor called me at around 5pm to say that he’d just seen the Stilt Sandpiper at the Western Treatment Plant. The bird was on the rocks on the far (northern) side of the Austin Lagoon. The bird was see on rocks on the eastern side and then flew to rocks on the … Read more