Vacancies – SOSSA pelagic trip Wollongong Sunday 3rd June 2012

Today’s (May 26th) pelagic trip from Wollongong was cancelled due to gale force winds. SOSSA is running a replacement trip on Sunday 3rd June 2012 and there are some vacancies. We leave Wollongong Harbour at 7am and return around 4pm. If anyone is interested in coming along, please contact SOSSA at sossa@tpg.com.au or on 02 … Read more

Erratum and apology. PP and desert research.

Donald, the friendly acknowledgment of your passion for Australian parrots, and the PP in particular, was intended. Themisspelling of your surname was unintended and unforgivable. Phonetics took over my brain and precision and courtesywas the loser. The birder’s world! He gets the names of birds right and the names of people wrong. I was once … Read more

Hi – For anyone who does’nt know, the weblinks below are a useful plae to start for information on Asian birding: Orientalbirding egroup: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/orientalbirding/ (email to join: orientalbirding@yahoogroups.com) ORIENTAL BIRD CLUB http://www.orientalbirdclub.org/ FORKTAIL – JOURNAL OF THE ORIENTAL BIRD CLUB: http://www.orientalbirdclub.org/publications/forktail/index.html [WITH all papers available as pdfs except the mostrecent two years] http://orientalbirdimages.org/ A small … Read more

Princess Parrots and flowering plants

Hi all, Its been fantastic to hear about the adventures of all who have made the pilgrimage to Newhaven in search of Princess Parrots. As virtually the NT’s only significant piece of desert land managed solely for conservation, Newhaven is certainly proving its worth to the world right now.     I have followed the … Read more