feral cats and immigration (The Age)

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Help with Tern ID please

Hi All, At Shoalhaven Heads on 6/1/2013 we observed 19 small terns, most of which were clearly Little Terns. On reviewing our photos, we’re not so sure about one bird which appears to lack the white above the eye that our field guides tell us is diagnostic of the Little… photos are here: http://s1079.beta.photobucket.com/user/MandPBirds/library/Small%20terns%20at %20shoalhaven%20Heads%206-1-2013 … Read more

BARC Checklist v2.0 is released

Greetings birders and happy new year to you all, I have just completed an overdue upgrade of the BARC Australian Checklist v2.0 in IOC taxonomy. Tony Palliser will upload it to the BARC website as soon as the ink is dry. http://www.tonypalliser.com/barc/barc-home.html This checklist is intended to follow the IOC World Bird Names checklist v3.3 … Read more

The history of cats in Australia

g’Day all Having spent a considerable amount of time in the Kimberley and Gulf of Carpentaria since the early 1970s, it has always struck me as interesting to observe the more uniform consistently smaller tabby appearance of many feral cats seen north of the tropic of Capricorn, compared to the generally larger and diverse coloured … Read more