Day: June 15, 2013

Hi again, it seems that accurate contact details for Bowra Station are hard to come by on the web. Has anyone got a current phone no or email contact please? Thanks in advance Peter

Hi all – on the topic of splitting owls etc, it looks like IOC is considering re-splitting Greater and Lesser Sooty Owl, see here: http://www.worldbirdnames.org/updates/species-updates-3-3/ (They should never have been lumped in the first place i.m.h.o…!) cheers Peter

Those who are interested in pest species may find the following of interest. It makes an interesting comparison with the recent work on the effects of Common Mynah http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchObject.action?uri=info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2 Fjournal.pone.0065299&representation=PDF =============================== 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 ===============================

Hi all, Can anyone shed any light on the status of Kimberley/White-lined Honeyeater at Keep River National Park, just across the NT border from Kununurra? Lloyd Nielson casually mentions White-lined at Keep River in his Birding Australia Directory but this seems rather out of range. Yet I see there is also an eBird record from … Read more

I can off hand think of 2 others that should be looked at. Bearing in mind that I don’t consider myself as any kind of taxonomist, but it’s always good to have things looked at. A lot of what is below is from some notes, memory & also photos. Firstly the so-called Brown Thornbill Acanthiza … Read more