HELMETED GUINEAFOWL AT SAMSONVALE, QLD

Does anyone know how long the Helmeted Guineafowl at Samsonvale Cemetery have been there? I paid my first visit this aftrenoon and was surpised to see them. Do they qualify under the 10-year rule? Regards Andy Wood =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with … Read more

RFI Tyto Wetlands Ingham QLD

Hi Ed, You need to contact Tyto Tony (Tony Ashton) who has a magnificent blog on the birds of Tyto (search for Tyto Tony on Google blogs). He is a New Zealander who rides his pushbike around the wetland most mornings – I usually go and wait for him to turn up. He doesn’t believe … Read more

Maddening Boobooks

I’m vainly trying to break 300 birds for the year for Australia without my own transport and at least three times a week for the last month I can hear a ‘tick’ calling to me from across the semi-birdless wasteland that is the Adelaide suburbs. Either it’s too distant to catch up with before it … Read more

One of the Rarest Wild Birds Photographed in the Wild

I was lured!   and what a great blog it is Chris, well done.  Great to see the mix of birds and old warbirds.  I havent seen an RNZAF Sunderland for a long while and have very fond memories of walking through the prototype Concorde at the Yeovilton Naval Air Museum back in the nineties, … Read more

A bit of good news for a change

Seems there are more Emperor Penguins (in lower case!) than was thought http://www.theage.com.au/national/penguin-population-a-happy-feat-20120413-1wz3i.html =============================== 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 ===============================