Day: June 11, 2012

Hi – There appear to be 2 recordings of Ptilinopus cinctus on Xeno-Canto – one from the slopes of Mount Mutis in West Timor, and one (mine) from the remote Banda Sea Island of Damar (both Indonesia). There are no recordings of P. alligator – but presumably it has a similar call to the very … Read more

Tom, I’d suggest emailing a couple of stores asking for a quote, Cathay photo is one, another is MS color http://www.mscolor.com.sg/products/ to compare with buying duty free here. For research on different models I’d suggest looking at this link: http://birds.cornell.edu/Publications/LivingBird/Winter2005/Age_Binos.html the tables have an eyeglass friendliness score. I don’t have a feel for binoculars but … Read more

Good Evening Everyone For quite a long time now I have wanted to be able to let my friends have a easy way of looking at my trip photos and I believe that this is the perfect solution. The other day I had a look at Greg Oakley’s fantastic photos on his Smugmug Website and … Read more

Hi all just getting some calls onto my iPod to familiarise my self with target birds before my Darwin trip soon – am I correct in that there is no Banded Fruit Dove call on the BOCA CDs, or is my set slightly behind the times? Thanks Tom Wilson =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing … Read more

Greetings all, My wife and I are heading to the UK late September for 7 – 8 weeks. We’ll have a mobile home and hope to take in Cornwall, Ireland, Scotland and parts of England. Nothing is planned yet and we nothing about UK birding or key places. Can someone please help kick start our … Read more