Dear B-aers, Museums Victoria has recently released an iPhone/pad?pod app entitled “Field Guide to Victorian Fauna”. It has photographs, distribution maps, status and for quite a number of species, of 700 species. It is very well priced, free. The app may not have every Victorian bird on it, but it would be useful for birders … Read more
Hi all, Note that I don’t intend for this message to become the start of yet another endless discussion about the pros and cons of playing back bird sounds. For years I’ve been using Radioshack mini loudspeakers attached to my mp3 player to play back bird calls. They’re hard to find outside the US and … Read more
Hi all Just letting you all know that I found another Pin-tailed Snipe at the Broome Poo Ponds yesterday morning. As you all know trying to get 100% id is very difficult but with lots of bronze flecking in the crown and a few other subtle difference I thought it was a good chance. This … Read more
Port Stephens (semi) Pelagic Trip Report – Sun 20th March 2011 Boat: M.V.Argonaut, skippered by Ray Horsefield OBSERVERS Graeme O’Connor, Joy Nicholls, Michael Kearns, Allan Richardson, Dan Mantle, Dan Williams, Bruce Hosken, Win Filewood, Adam Fawcett, Sheila Perrotet, Bronwyn Ellis, Alan Stuart, Steve Roderick and Mick Roderick (leader and organiser). CONDITIONS Well … Read more
Hi all, Ray Gobbe and I had a fairly uneventful coupe of hours at Maroubra – only goodie was a Sooty Tern some 500m off the car park. Cheers, Graham Buchan =============================== 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 … Read more