On this subject…has anyone heard the radio ad for O’Rielly’s Rainforest Retreat up at Lamingtion? I have been there heaps and never run into the suite of North American passerines singing in the background. I would have thought they would have known better! Cheers, Roger Samford Valley, BNE QLD On 18/04/2012, at 2:24 PM, “Philip … Read more
I didn’t see that (I’m not in Melbourne). I hope you wrote to the Fairfax press about this, rather than just to us. Or even to Media Watch (ABC TV). I have at least twice written to Media Watch about dopey things I have seen on TV or newspapers and Media Watch has commented on … Read more
I saw that, too, Mike. It’s not the first time that Regent and Helmeted Honeyeaters have been confused in the popular press. My husband noticed the error and left the article out for me to look at. He’s not even a birder. Cheers, Merrilyn On 18/04/2012 8:38 AM, Michael Tarburton wrote: > OK which one … Read more
OK which one of you: misidentified the photo the Fairfax press published in their 72 page “junk-mail” Melbourne Weekly, distribution to East Melbourne in the last week? Or maybe they did not ask any of you and left it up to their educated journalists to get the correct photo to go with the Conservation story. … Read more
Hi all, one correction to the report posted yesterday; the second seamount visited was the Britannia Sea Mount (not Britannica) and one addition; one of the White-faced Storm-Petrels had an obvious pure white rump instead of grey and once I get the pictures back from the one photographer who got a photo, we will look … Read more