On Friday night, ABC TV in Tasmania screened the following items – the first on 7.30 state edition, the second on the 7 o’clock news. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-02-04/critically-endangered-parrot-closer-to-extinction/3811524 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-02-03/extinction-threatens-orange-bellied-parrots/3811130 It’s important to keep some perspective on this. Breeding is taking place and no juveniles will be taken into the captive flock, as they were last year. A … Read more
I hope birders have a look at this and add their signatures. http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/ban-duck-shooting-in-victoria-australia/ =============================== 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 ===============================
Hi All I sent this email a couple of days ago. There are now 3 of us but it would be good to have a fourth person. We are doing it as cheaply as possible and if we get 4 it almost can’t be done any cheaper. The highlands of PNG are being logged quickly … Read more
Hi all, Steve and I took the tinny out today to about 20km off Swansea (NSW) to see if we could get amongst some of the interesting birds reported off the NSW coast in the past week. Seems the southerly air-flow may have spoilt the party following the cold water upwelling earlier in the … Read more
Regarding the issue of shutter lag in compacts, a lot of that has to do with AF acquisition time, all compacts and mirrorless cameras use a contrast detection AF system utilising data from the sensor, that up until now that has been quite slow. Panasonic were the first to develop a contrast detection system that … Read more