Hi everyone I’m preparing a display for the upcoming National Trust Heritage Festival at Campsie Library about the Cooks River. I will include a poster on birds of the river. Does anyone have photos they can let me use? It wont be flash. There are plenty of pics of Wolli Creek (a tributary) but not … Read more
Richard Baxter has just rung and asked me to report on birding-aus that a male Blue and White Flycatcher was seen easily today near the Big House on Home Island. It was very attached to one particular tree which it repeatedly chased a Large Hawk Cuckoo out of, both birds viewed and photographed very well … Read more
OK, sorry I lied but I know you will forgive me, SE Australia has had record unbelievable floods, Christchurch was torn-down by an earthquake but what has happened in Japan defies description…. Most Australian birders have contacts with their counterparts in Japan…..what can we do to help? We’ve all seen images of homeless people with … Read more
THREE WEEKS IN THAILAND. 2. THE NORTH . In my first piece I forgot to mention our first experience with mealworms, ‘behind the men’s room’ at one of the campings we found shamas, a Chinese Blue Flycatcher, and the rare Rufous-tailed Robin , and at another stake-out the colourful Mugimaki Flycatcher. And how could I … Read more
see http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110316222022.htm Not So Eagle Eyed: New Study Reveals Why Birds Collide With Human-Made Objects ScienceDaily (Mar. 17, 2011) =============================== 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 ===============================