Murmuration of Starlings

Does anybody know anything about this phenomena? Why? Where? etc. Debbie Lustig Phone 0402 887 248www.facebook.com/savetheobp =============================== 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 ===============================

Australian Painted Snipe

A propos the postings re ASPs, I have just reported the following sighting from yesterday to Birdline Victoria. Richard Species: Australian Painted Snipe Date: 5 Nov 2011 Site: Small pond just inside Serendip Sanctuary northern fenceline on Plains Rd, Lara Notes: Four experienced birders (2 from the UK, 1 from the USA, and this reporter) … Read more

RFI Painted Snipe

Hello all, This is a request on short notice, can someone give me directions to the pond at Pitt Town Bottoms where the painted Snipe were seen over the last few days. I’m going down tomorrow morning for a squiz and ther are lots and lots of ‘ponds’ down there. (By the way, it’s gotta … Read more

Australian Painted Snipe

Hi Keith / all A good year indeed! I’ve been helping on a project going back through historic records of APS sightings recently, and it is noticeable that this scarce species has always had intermittent good years following seasons of good rainfall, after which it largely disappears again. Decades ago the good years occasionally saw … Read more

Scrubtit

Gooday BA Can someone please inform if it is possible to see Scrubtits at or near Melaleuca, SW Tasmania, if we fly in to see the Orange-bellied Parrot. Thanks Greg Little Greg Little – Principal Consultant General Flora and Fauna PO Box 526 Wallsend, NSW, 2287, Australia Ph 02 49556609 Fx 02 49556671 www.gff.com.au =============================== … Read more