g’Day all This afternoon at about 1600 hr. while looking south from the end of the town jetty at Ardrossan SA there were many Fluttering Shearwater about 250m out, settling on the sea forming rafts of several hundred birds (at approx. 34˚25’740S, 137˚55’740E). In various directions nearby there were many shearwaters and about 20 Gannets … Read more
G’day B-aus Members A number of people have let me know that they never saw any White- throated Needletails during the last “Swift Season” IF you normally do, BUT did not see any in this last season (or any previous season that you can recall) Would you mind letting me know [preferable off-list] as I … Read more
See here for an interesting observation I had of black kites: http://www.publish.csiro.au/?act=view_file&file_id=MU9820053.pdf “”Message: 1 Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2011 13:43:22 +0930 From: “Anthony Molyneux” To: Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Firehawks of the Top End Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=”iso-8859-1″ Hi Bob, I have had this question on many occasions of whether the Black Kites deliberately light the … Read more
Hi birders Why does it not surprise me that journalists cannot get it right? http://www.smh.com.au/environment/animals/give-a-hoot-and-find-a-treedwellin g-neighbour-20110703-1gxcv.html Regards Akos =============================== 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 ===============================