January is normally one of the wetter months in Brisbane. Up until this morning, I have had 3 mm of rain in my back yard gauge for the month. It appears that the remnants of Cyclone Oswald will be doing something to repair the rainfall deficiency. Today was overcast with intermittent light showers. Consequently there … Read more
Eaglehawk Pelagic Trip Report 20/01/2013 Participants: Rob Hamilton, Jeremy O’Wheel, Michael Livingston, Els Wakefield, Hazel Britton, Karen Tie, Jason Jones, Peter Bain, Scott Linnane, Diana Womersely, and Paul Brooks (report compiler). Trip organised by James Melville, who was not in attendance. Boat: The Pauletta, skippered by John Males This trip had to be postponed by … Read more
Bird was seen today. Mike Carter 30 Canadian Bay Road Mount Eliza VIC 3930 Tel (03) 9787 7136 =============================== 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 ===============================
Hey all, For those of you wishing for more foreign input the discussion on birdforum: http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=249211 is that the bird belongs to the fuscus group and that there is no reason for it to be fuscus fuscus. It’s been a very interesting discussion. Thank you all, D. =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send … Read more
Or surely an easier way to use feathers (or other genetic material from it) than DNA analysis is to obtain the feathers from a moulting bird (if it is and they can be found), especially those that show important characters such as the white tips to wing feathers, the back colour and the other minutiae … Read more