Dear Birding-Ausers, I am currently organising a Portland trip for 6 November (with a back-up day for the 13th) and have several vacancies. So, please email me if you would like one. If you have any queries, please contact me. My contact number at home is 03 9370 7418 or you can e-mail at . … Read more
They’re back! It’s been noted that at least 16 OBPs have arrived at their summer breeding grounds in Tasmania. Here’s the chair of the Recovery Team, Mark Holdsworth, on Hobart radio: http://blogs.abc.net.au/tasmania/2011/10/waiting-for-the-orange-bellied-parrot.html Secondly, a new charity has been formed to help fund research and other conservation programs. Birders are invited to donate to the Wildcare … Read more
As I was saying, it’s an ill wind… The new wide margins to Lockyer Creek as it flows through our place today delivered their first new bird to the Abberton list, a Latham’s Snipe. First seen from a window looking out onto the creek, it brings our garden list to 211spp, and our verandah list … Read more
Globetrotting Birding-Aus readers who may have reason to travel through London in the spring of2012, may be interested in a major new birding event which will take place in that city for the first time next year. From the 20-22 April 2012 the first London Wild Bird Watch (think Birdfairs) will be held at the … Read more
Dear all, The Ethnoornithology Research & Study Group are proposing to put together a session or symposium for the next Pan African Ornithology Conference (PAOC13). There were several ethnoornithogical sessions at the last PAOC in South Africa in 2008 and I look forward to learning as much and having as much fun…and more…in Arusha, Tanzania … Read more