I came across this information during the course of today’s work – an initiative to reduce bird collisions with tall buildings in the United States. Wouldn’t it be great if Australia had a similar scheme? New LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Pilot is for the Birds http://www.leeduser.com/credit/Pilot-Credits/PC55 Regards, Stephen Dr Stephen Ambrose Ambrose … Read more
Hi All, I have posted a trip report for the recent trip across the Nullarbor in early May 2012 for those that are interested. www.bruce-wedderburn.blogspot.com.au Regards, Bruce Wedderburn =============================== 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 ===============================
A quick google finds nothing obviously suspicious. Clicking the kinks takes you to their home page (which is not the URL they quote, which is a bit strange) which WOT (a tool I use to rate trustworthy websites) reckons is OK, as does MacAfee’s SiteAdvisor. So probably OK On 15 May 2012 17:35, Richard Nowotny … Read more
The poison in Gastrolobium is sodium fluoroacetate (also known as 1080). In Australia, natural occurrences of sodium fluoroacetate occurs mostly in Gastrolobium species, and nearly all species in this genus are restricted in distribution to South-western Australia. Twigg & King (1991) found that Emus also had a high tolerance to the poison when feeding on … Read more
Hi Angus, an interesting observation. I am heading to Newhaven this weekend to look for the Princess Parrot and while I am no Botanist I shall look out for the Upside-down Plant for you and report back. Cheers, Carl Princess Parrot habitat on Newhaven Station from [Angus Innes] [Permanent Link][Original] To: … Read more