*Trip Report – Nullarbor and Eyre Peninsula* *Dates* – 10-20 June 2012 *Participants* – Iian Denham, Peter Gibbons, Christine Shelley, Dave Torr We planned this trip early in 2012 to look for the Nullarbor Quail-thrush – at that stage a potential split, although it has since been split by the IOC. One of our group … Read more
G’day all, Recently I’ve been having some discussion about the differences between the Tasmanian Shy Albatross – T. cauta – and the New Zealand White-capped Albatross – T. steadi (or T. cauta cauta/steadi depending on your taxonomy). Various sources seem to indicate that breeding T. cauta have a yellow spot at the upper base of … Read more
Hello from Newhaven, It’s very cold out here now in the desert and the Princess Parrots that have spectacularly graced Newhaven with their presence are now becoming much more difficult to locate. Newhaven is now back to business as usual. We are no longer guiding trips in search of the parrots however our beautiful campground … Read more
A request for the photographers on the list. Rutherglen Landcare is installing a sign for the towns lake and wishes to highlight certain fauna. They would like to have snaps of the following amphibians and mammals. Would those people who have suitable (large frame?) snaps of these and prepared to provide them for this use … Read more
Thanks to Frank for summarising many of the changes, splits and lumps in the IOC 3.1 list. As I was looking through the name changes a few jumped out at me as and I thought “why change them” and I would like to know the reasoning behind some of the changes or anyone else’s thoughts. … Read more