From all this passionate discussion on taxonomies I am assuming that someone (or some committee) has finally come up with a viable, scientifically based and universally accepted definition of “a species”. Would someone be so kind as to tell me what that definition is. Bob Inglis Sandstone Point Qld =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing … Read more
Yesterday Warren Thompson and I travelled up the Old Glen Innes Road from Grafton and returned along the Gwydir Highway via Gibraltar Range National Park. I hadn’t travelled the road for a few years and wanted to check it out as I needed some fresh air after being chained to the computer so much recently. … Read more
Ah yes, rosellas, maybe we should split Adelaide and the FNQ birds as well? I opted for a compromise as it seems to me Yellow looks so different and has different habitat, but these things are not exactly set in stone, I fear it’s a case of large white-headed gull syndrome in Europe where there … Read more
I flagged Yellow-rumped Pardalote as a possibility but I don’t know how much intergradation occurs, I seem to recall this is why it got subsumed. The Bronze-Cuckoos are a problem, I note that the subspecies russatus ( Gould’s) was subsumed into poecilurus by Payne. Interestingly the new and generally excellent Cuckoos of the World by … Read more
Hello Andrew, If you look at my website under Black-headed Honeyeater you’ll find a picture (584208D) of a bird collecting an old cigarette butt – this one is a fairly weathered filter tip and I doubt very much whether there would be much residual nicotine. To my mind the attraction in this case is simply … Read more