G’day all I’m just back from a week on East Timor and wondered if anyone could help with the id of a flock of 5 parrots I saw on Atauro Island. They streaked across the sky and appeared essentially green. No obvious splashes of colour on the body and definitely green underwings. The two candidates … Read more
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Hi Birding-Ausers, Does anyone have a recent contact for a bird guide in Fiji, who may be able to organise a short trip there for me in the near future? — Regards Chris Lester =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) … Read more
Hi Phil, I reckon the chatting would mean your list for the day would be lower, not because of flushing birds (unless someone is unduly loud), but because of missing birds while your mind isn’t on the job at hand. Nevertheless – birds do have a way of being obvious sometimes when folk are relaxed. … Read more
Peter wrote: “I’m also wondering if making voice notes ever spooks birds.” That struck me as amusing. Mainly because my formative birding years were as a young teenager with the BOCA in the early 1970s. I recall many loud chatterings among excited people looking at birds. Amusing chat of people talking not just amongst but … Read more