Hi all Rather than paying carbon offset penalties for bird watching in Australia I think there is a better way to manage this. To encourage the complete enjoyment of our natural environment “the Government should ” be offering generous carbon subsidies, concessions and income tax deductions to provide incentives for people to take up passive … Read more
Dear all, See more here: http://blogs.crikey.com.au/northern/2011/11/14/bird-of-the-week-a-eurasian-hoopoe-pops-in-for-a-beer-at-the-roebuck-plains-roadhouse/ BG
The Birds Australia Victoria Twitchathon was held this weekend. There were six teams competing in the 8-hour event and eight teams competing in the 24-hour event (although one team will be competing next weekend due to previous commitments last weekend). As always with the Twitchathon there were all sorts of teams competing – from the … Read more
Oh please – give us all a break!!!! A person posts a wonderfully light hearted account of her decision to jump a plane and go see a rare bird! Then we get all the goofy greeny stuff coming out of the woodwork! As someone said – lets stick to birds on this forum and not … Read more
Hi all, I’ve been sent the following for comment. can anyone enlighten me (and thus my physicist friend)? Best Pat It occurred to me while watching a flock of birds take off that they were doing it in a manner conducive to injury: they were all very close together, and three dimensionally so. Why would … Read more