I have appended the Hansard record of the Senate Estimates Committee discussion that led to the article in yesterday’s age and the Birding Aus thread “Bad news from Macquarie” It doesn’t appear to contain anything that would indicate there had been any blundering or unexpected outcome in the rodent control program. Warning, the transcript contains … Read more
Next year will be my fourth year combining a birding trip abroad with working as a volunteer on an environmental project in the country I’ll visit to bird. I love it and for me, volunteering is the perfect way to ‘give back as well as take away a great experience’ in a third world country … Read more
My local Sulphur-crested Cockatoos have been very busy for the last couple of months chasing the Brown and Grey Goshawks. The Browns are nesting here, the Greys appear occasionally. I live in Hazelbrook in the Blue Mountains, NSW. Jill Dark =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of … Read more
I am one of the moderators of the BOCA Photo Gallery and one of the photographers, George, and I would be interested in comments about the unusual plumage of a Willie Wagtail he photographed recently at the Western Treatment Plant at Werribee, Vic. The images are on the front page of the gallery and they … Read more
Hi Peter, Maybe. It would add some odd consistency to Red-, Yellow- and White- (as the other ones were called). I have not come across that name. If so, it adds an idea but I may still wonder why would someone think its tail was glossy. Or indeed any part of it. HANZAB comments that … Read more