Thanks for the help everyone, really informative! Hopefully we’ll get some more seawatching in over the next couple of years and build our experience with these tricky pelagic birds 😉 Cheers, Josh Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 05:58:25 -0700 From: nhaass@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] ID Help – possible Salvin’s off Sydney To: w_lizard@hotmail.com; birding-aus@vicnet.net.au Hi … Read more
I live on the far coast of NSW between Narooma and Bermagui and the Swift Parrots are currently passing through. I have a suspicion that these birds are under-reported for a few reasons and I’d like to pass along some field notes to help others and for correction.
This on-line article Published in the journal PLoS One (see http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0040622,) is most unfortunate. If you read it at all, I recommend great scepticism. This study uses data from the Garden Bird Survey (GBS) but severely misrepresents the way the data were collected. For that and several other reasons, I believe this study is multi-flawed. … Read more
Dear B-A, There is a piece in the Sydney Morning Herald’s web site regarding a study on Common Mynah and their effects on native bird species. http://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/pushy-myna-birds-a-major-nest-pest-20120812-242v2.html The study was based partly on data collected by the Canberra Ornithologist’s Group. Now that we know they are a pest, it would be nice to come up … Read more