Leica Camera AG, who produce Leica sports optics as well as cameras, has taken the Australian distributorship for their products in-house and have opened premises in Melbourne. Hopefully this will mean better after sales service and repairs. They don’t seem to have a local website yet, but I do have a phone number if anyone … Read more
An interesting topic, Wim. In Feb. 2007 I took a photo of Vanellus miles novaehollandiae behaving as you described: < http://www.flickr.com/photos/27064924@N05/8746054931/in/photostream The habitat is shallowly-shelving wet mud at the edge of freshwater (the River Murray at Mannum in South Australia). John Seymour =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the ... Read more
On the subject of the Liberal National Party Government’s attempts to open up national parks to grazing, we expect nothing less of this lot. However, the decision of the RSPCA to back the decision gives it credibility it would not otherwise have. Let’s remember, these cattle will be slaughtered soon in any event. I for … Read more
Reposting here from Seabird News: An eight-person expedition team, led by Peter Harrison, returned from seas south of Noumea, New Caledonia, last week after six days of off-shore seabird research. The team included Chris Gaskin, a leading figure in the rediscovery and subsequent ongoing research of the New Zealand Storm-Petrel whose breeding grounds he helped … Read more
SHOREBIRDS USING THEIR FEET IN PROBING This is a topic that has long interested me, and I think I may have written about it to Birding-aus years ago (My home computer has crashed, and I have no access to my archives just now). Just the other day I watched a Northern Lapwing foot-shivering on very … Read more