Car trip with birding

I have done the car trip from Melbourne to Canberra, either way, many times over 4 decades. It depends if you are doing it as a direct trip, in which case it is about 8 to 10 hours driving time. That can be one day or I often stop overnight at Chiltern, just south of … Read more

New Birds of New Guinea

I hope you are right though quite frankly I’m not holding my breath. A new edition has been expected since at least 2007 as the following post on Birdnet shows: http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=60310 Jeff Crocombe > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:28:02 +1100 > From: Carl Clifford > To: Birding-Aus Aus > Subject: … Read more

March 23 Sunshine Coast pelagic

We remain short of numbers for the March 23 pelagic off the Sunshine Coast. Cost $120pp. Please let me know if you are interested. We had to cancel our March 2 pelagic due to lack of numbers. Given that this is the top time of year for birding offshore in subtropical waters, it would be … Read more

Stevenson and Fanshawe East african app

I have bought this app and it is great, having the calls to hand is very handy, so I was puzzled to see the apparent problems about copyright. I asked Terry Stevenson direct and here is his response: “Not really sure what’s going on, and I don’t know anything about a dispute over copyright of … Read more

In more positive news

Broughton Island declared pest-free. See http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-03-12/broughton-island-declared-pest-free/4566576 =============================== 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 ===============================