Hi all, Thought you may be interested in some photos of a Figbird feeding a Koel. Go to: http://backyardwildlifers.ning.com/ Cheers, Tom Sjolund =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au http://birding-aus.org ===============================
A good and unusual question. Maybe best posed to people who keep birds in captivity (and presumably in colder places than the species normally occurs in). Also those who watch roosting waders for a long time may well have thoughts on this. I suspect from watching canaries and finches that they don’t change their legs … Read more
Advice received from Clive Minton. Among waders caught during a Victorian Wader Study Group banding session at Black Rocks, Barwon Heads on 22 January 2011 was a first winter LITTLE STINT. Potential twitchers beware that it is virtually impossible to detect this bird in the field unless you can see that the wings are in … Read more
>From a Librarian listserv: A Cooper’s hawk has made its home at the Library of Congress and is bringing in new visitors. You can suggest a name on the Washington Post blog. Surely we can think of something better than ‘Jane Air’?! Washington Post article: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/local-breaking-news/dc/name-the-library -of-congress-h.html Australian Library and Information Association http://www.alia.org.au/ http://www.information-online.com.au/ _______________________________________________ … Read more
Dear all Birding is becoming more mainstream…. Now Xeno-canto is featured on Treehugger.com http://birdingblogs.com/2011/Gunnar/xeno-canto-featured-on-treehugger Gunnar