After my somewhat intemperate outburst regarding the publication of Professor Adrian Franklin’s piece in The Age earlier this week (I called it “the biggest load of crap this side of a dysentery epidemic”), Birding-Aus filled up for a day with far more useful posts than mine about the feral cat problem. I would like to … Read more
The problem with the cockatoo theory is that in Tasmania there is good reason to think Sulphur-crested Cockatoos are recently introductions, but all the Grey Goshawks are white morph. Also Grey Goshawks have a white underside regardless of morph, and that’s the side prey would normally see. I suspect the underside is white for sky … Read more
During our latest trip to Australia, up above Gunlom Falls in the NT we spotted a dead branch laden with Sulphur-crested Cockatoos plus what appeared to be a smaller white cockatoo. It wasn’t, it was a white-morph Grey Goshawk, and it had obviously chosen to perch with the cockatoos. . Only on reading this thread … Read more
> I strongly disagree, David. No problem, it’s just my opinion – I wont even try to claim there’s a scientific basis for my vague claim. =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au http://birding-aus.org ===============================
I strongly disagree, David. In your previous e-mail you said “Australia is striking because, with limited exceptions, if you can get a good look at a bird, you can name it to species. That’s not the case in Europe, North America, the Neo-tropics, Africa or Asia, so far as I know. “. All these groups you mentioned in this … Read more