wooow!

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Barn Owl v Owlet-Nightjar?

Another interesting discovery, probably a Barn Owl and Owlet-Nightjar interacting. Apologies for the poor formatting but I had problems displaying the two images side by side. Click on the sonogram thumbnails to enlarge them and the blue text to hear the calls. http://www.aviceda.org/audio/?p=227 Tom

Southern Black+Backed Gull

At Cottontree (Maroochydore) Wednesday afternnon and spotted a SBB Gull on a sandbar? Is this species regularly seen on the Sunshine Coast? CAn not remember seeing one before =============================== 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 ===============================

Russian Arctic

Birders with an interest in wildlife in the Arctic may be interested in my travel feature on the subject in Qantas magazine: http://travelinsider.qantas.com.au/eco_tourism_in_the_russian_arctic.htm Greg Roberts =============================== 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 ===============================

Dairy Swamp (Altona, Vic) – was Australian Painted Snipe

I’ve now scaled and repositioned Roy Wheeler’s locaity map and superimposed it on an aerial photograph. the results can be seen here: https://picasaweb.google.com/pshute2/DairySwampLaverton#5680998428196626290 If the description “the northern end of Golf Links Swamp” means true north, and if the map is to scale, then Dairy Swamp may still exist. There’s certainly a boggy area there, … Read more