Spent 3 weeks in Adelaide this month, mainly to attend Adelaide Festival events, but also to visit family and old friends. Couldn’t resist the temptation to visit some old birding sites (we left in 1993), to check-out some new ones, and to hopefully add some lifers viz.Scarlet-chested Parrot, Black-eared Miner, and (ahem,ahem) Barbary Dove. In … Read more
Hi all, I’d like a hand identifying these two Wandering Albatross to species (or subspecies depending on your taxonomy beliefs) level, if it’s possible. At the moment I’m struggling to split between gibsoni and exulans, and thought I’d throw the pics out to some experts to get some more opinions. I have more photos/bigger crops … Read more
Hi Birding-Aus folks, I photographed a flagged and banded Beach Stone Curlew tonight at Hastings Point in northern NSW. He has a metal band on his right leg and a yellow flag with A2 on his left. If anyone requires pictures, please contact me off board. Cheers, Inger Inger Vandyke Professional Wildlife Photographer and Writer … Read more
Hi Chris, Brown Goshawk Accipiter fasciatus it is. That’s why you couldn’t find any yellow (which you would have found if it was a Grey Falcon). Cheers, Jonny =============================== 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 ===============================
Good Evening Everyone I have been a bit slack lately but I have just posted 30 more shots from South America with a couple of shots of the Golden-headed Quetzal which was one of the birds that makes you salivate about going to South America to look for birds. Also I have just enjoyed a … Read more