G’day all, I have today returned to Cairns after a fantastic Southern Ocean & Bass Strait yachting trip with Simon Mustoe from 5/02-10/02/13. I will let Simon post details of this trip onto this list at a later date, but I will say now that we did record 2 interesting species on King island on … Read more
Dom, sounds like a perfect description for a Uniform Swiftlet. They are however a rare vagrant with only one confirmed record. Should keep the camera close by! Chris Ross =============================== 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 ===============================
This could be another line of attack on the proposed shooting in parks and reserves in NSW. Goes to show just how Christian the Rev Fred is! I have deleted the original senders details (I hope). Cheers, Mark
Hi. From 10.20 am until 12.30 pm yesterday (10 Feb) there were at least 200 Fork-tailed Swifts hawking over the ridge where the Great Western Highway runs through Blaxland. I went back to the same spot at the corner of the highway and Bridge Rd twice, hoping to see other species of swift in the … Read more
In a thread about birding apps the other day Peter Shute provided some links to information on understanding spectrograms of bird calls that I’ll quote here: > There’s a good tutorial on reading spectrograms at http://earbirding.com/blog/specs. The Canyon Wren > spectrograms at http://earbirding.com/blog/specs/pitch-and-inflection can be compared to those in the > lite version of the … Read more