Hi Everyone, I noted with interest the sightings off Portland on Sunday. We also had an exceptional trip off Port MacDonnell with c50 Great Shearwaters from inshore right out to the shelf (I think 13 around the boat at one time was the most), one Black-bellied Storm Petrel, one or two Gould’s Petrels, one Sooty … Read more
Dr Holly Parsons will be the guest speaker at Illawarra Birders meeting this Tuesday night at the Coniston Community Centre at 7-30 pm. All welcome to attend. regards Terrill =============================== 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 number of Great Shearwaters were seen off Portland on Sunday 3rd April on the monthly BOCA pelagic. A full report will be coming out soon but I thought it worth alerting the birding community. Possibly 8 individuals were seen and up to 6 at one time. They approached and settled when burlying. The first … Read more
I had a pair of Shining Flycatchers this morning along the Maroochy River on the Sunshine Coast, close to where I had two females of this species recently. This is my third sighting locally of Shining Flycatchers, which reach their southern distributional limit in southeast Queensland. Also of interest today were good numbers of Plumed … Read more
Hello all (but particularly Tasmanian birdos), While on the UTAS School of Zoology field excursion at Fortescue Bay, Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania on the weekend, I was shown some photos of what I believe is probably a Brown Booby on the Hippolyte Rocks (Date was Saturday 2nd April). Brown Boobies are very rare in Tasmania….. (no … Read more