About 25 Banded Stilts and 6 Red-necked Avocets at Lake Joondalup Picnic Cove area today and a single Intermediate Egret. Also a few thousand of the common waterfowl (PBD, Grey Teal, Shoveler, Mush Duck, 50 Blue-billed Ducks), ~100 Great Egrets in breeding dress, 1 Night Heron, Pelicans, all three Grebe species a brood of Hardheads … Read more
Bad news from CI. The highly damaging heavy bunker oil leaking from the ship will have a “disastrous” environmental impact on threatened sea birds and the coral band that rings the island, Dr Nic Dunlop, an environmental scientist with The Conservation Council of WA who specialises in sea birds, has warned. Most at risk are … Read more
Gooday BA We recently had the unfortunate circumstance of a cheap, pocket note pad getting wet such that we almost lost a lot of birding records gathered over several months. This has happened before. Over the years I have collected many cheap note pads of various sizes and types, partially filled with information, stored in … Read more
Have just received this interesting response to my enquiry (thanks Alastair). Richard From: BirdlineACT [mailto:birdlineact@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, 9 January 2012 12:53 PM To: Richard Nowotny Subject: Fwd: [canberrabirds] One for the Long-distance Twitchers Richard , This may answer your question. Regards Alastair Begin forwarded message: From: Denis Wilson Subject: [canberrabirds] One for the Long-distance Twitchers … Read more
Hannah, I am not sure what the Queensland branches of SGAP are like but from experience a couple of the stalwarts of the Coffs Harbour branch are not committed to local provenance plants. I gave a talk to the branch on this issue and it was received with varying degrees of acceptance. Some members were … Read more