Q. When is a duck shooting season not a duck shooting season? A. When it continues a week after the official close. These pictures show the final display of birds by the Coalition Against Duck Shooting last Tuesday, outside the offices of the Department of Primary Industries. Posters of Ted Baillieu, Peter Ryan and Peter … Read more
G’day, I wrenched myself away from Bribie Island today to visit Brisbane. And at the Metroplex complex, looking from the bridge that separates the two lagoons towards the”south” lagoon, there was a female Black-backed Bittern (we’re using IOC taxonomy, right?) on the small island in the middle. Unfortunately, it scuttled away almost as soon as … Read more
Saw 10 banded plover on Wilmington -Pt Augusta rd tonight. Reading up on them in HAANZAB it states they are monogamous, but also reports a case of possible nest sharing. I assume these days with DNA testing that being monogamous would prove to be false and that this applies to all birds. Any comments? Is … Read more
Have received a request from a birder in the Philippines for a checklist of Australian bird species which gives their either status (ie. resident or migrant….or both) They have recently recorded a Channel-billed Cuckoo there and wish to know what else that they start should looking for. If anyone can supply an online link to … Read more
G’day all Twitter just severd this article up: Jønsson, K A, Fabre, P-H and Irestedt, M. 2012. Brains, tools, innovation and biogeography in crows and ravens. BMC Evolutionary Biology 12: (72) http://www.birdwatch.co.uk/categories/articleitem.asp?item=918 Apparently the eastern and western populations are genetically distinct and separated by a 100km wide C. coronoides gap along the Great Australian Bight. … Read more