Hi All, Tonight I was back up around Mt Glorious in D’Aguilar NP searching for night birds, with some success. Marbled Frogmouths were seen or heard at two locations, as were Southern Boobooks and Australian Owlet-Nightjars. The highlights though were the Sooty Owls. I tried for them on the trail about 5.5km past Maiala, and … Read more
Thanks Peter That’s good to know. I think you mean PIRSA (Department of Primary Industies and Resources, SA) rather than DPI (the Victorian version). See: http://www.pir.sa.gov.au/biosecuritysa Interesting, given the reported lack of interest by the SA State Government a few years ago, that the Barbary Dove is also on their list of declared pest animals … Read more
Birds Australia Vic Group PELAGIC TRIP OFF PORTLAND, VIC, Sunday 11th September 2011 This was the monthly Birds Australia Vic group trip. OBSERVERS: Rohan Clarke (organiser/report compiler), Dave Torr, John McRae, Johnny Loy, John Ford, Ashley Carlson, Glen White, Iian Denham, Kaspar Delhey and Trevor Hunt. WEATHER: Windy! Gusting 20-30 kts in the AM decreasing … Read more
Good evening everyone Last weekend was spent at Chiltern State Forest looking for Turquoise Parrots nesting but alas to no avail, Highlights were Painted Button-quail, Mistletoebird, and a beautiful Male Rufous Whistler. We also saw a pair of Speckled Warblers nesting in the grass and I would never have picked it up except for Peter … Read more
Hi all, A helpful birding-aus subscriber has pointed out a spelling/typo error in my last email. It is of course *Anas crecca*, not *Annas crecca*. So please take my request as being for information on *Anas crecca*. Thanks Jenny =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the … Read more