Hi all Today at Skinners Lagoon in Brisbane at about noon, I heard 3 Grey butcherbirds making their alarm call. Expecting to find a carpet snake, I went over to the commotion and found one bird hammering at fallen bark accumulated in a fork midway up a eucalypt. It even attacked under the bark. After … Read more
Just to clarify a couple points regarding the Freckled Duck shootings at the Box Flat swamp. In the speech from Sue Pennicuik she refers to approximately 200 Freckled Duck being shot at Box Flat. Is that number based on the investigation by the DSE or the DPI? If it is correct that would be about … Read more
Let’s be clear about this and stop pussyfooting around, please: anyone who shoots a swan or an avocet – an avocet, for God’s sake! – in or out of duck shooting season doesn’t need more stringent ID testing; they need to be in the clink. Now, that might sound like an over-reaction – OK, it … Read more
G’day everyone, Here’s a copy of the trip report from last Sunday’s pelagic trip out of Hillarys (Perth). Overall a relatively quiet trip, with no repeat of the Streaked Shearwater action from this time last year. There was a reasonable variety of species for a Hillarys trip but nothing too unusual and many species didn’t … Read more
No amount of legislation will stop this type of behaviour. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-03-29/slain-kangaroos-raise-fresh-park-hunting-worries/4601200 Carl Clifford =============================== 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 ===============================