Raja and I saw the following during the Christmas break: Round Hill, 27/12: Malleefowl 1 (crossed Murrin Bridge Rd, 9.9 km SE of the T-junction with Euabalong-Mt Hope Rd at 8:15 pm) Painted Button-quail 1, Nombinnie track Chestnut Quail-thrush 2, Nombinnie track Gilbert’s Whistler 2, Nombinnie track Several Southern Scrub-robins, Shy Heathwrens, Gould’s Monitors and … Read more
Coming up soon on ABC Radio … Sean Dooley. Hopefully it’s national, but at least Victorian listeners will get to hear Sean talk about birds and hot weather, and the beating of his Australian record Russell Sent from my iPhone =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of … Read more
An interesting post by John Leonard. In the SW, at the Stirling Range I can see Spotted Pardalote in Wandoo / Marri / Dwarf Jarrah woodland, and “Yellow-rumped” in mallee maybe only 50 metres away. I admit that I don’t look extra close at them most of the time, but when I have looked they … Read more
There is currently a petition on the change.org site requesting some southern NSW coastal councils and the NSW Govt. to reaffirm a comittment to the Shorebird Recovery Program. Please sign it. http://www.change.org/petitions/shoalhaven-eurobodalla-bega-valley-councils-nsw-government-to-reaffirm-support-for-the-shorebird-recovery-program?share_id=liSiTOtVVC&utm_campaign=autopublish&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=share_petition Paul Osborn =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) … Read more
What a good answer. I also think it relates a lot to what has happened in time to all the other species that were close. Think of a platypus. That is unique in so many aspects. We can easily create a dividing line around that and call it a species, genus and family. Then the … Read more