I’m not sure if RBEs are full-time residents or breeding migrants in SEQ, but I heard the dulcet tones and saw one flying over the upper reaches of the Logan River near Rathdowney at lunchtime today. Regards, Laurie. =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, … Read more
DNA – Most specimens (?all but 3 perhaps) collected before 1900, so not sure how useful it would be. I’m ignorant of molecular approaches, but this detailed type of analysis may not be possible on gnarly old specimens (?better on blood and fresh tissue? – of which there is none) >>>>>>>>>>>> To: birding-aus@lists.vicnet.net.au Subject: DNA … Read more
Hi – If anyone has significant bird records from Indonesia including West Papua (and all Borneo) then please consider contributing them to Kukila. Thanks, Colin http://kukila.org/index.php/KKL Kukila Volume 17(1) published! The editors of Kukila are proud to announce the publication of Volume 17-Part 1. Kukila is becoming biannual. We hope that a shorter waiting time … Read more
Heres the BirdLife Int summary, largely taken from the Action Plan 2010 (Garnett et al. 2011). Australia is rather large, and potential habitat must around say 5,000,000 km2, though perhaps they do actually occupy tiny patches of this. Because of their cryptic nature we probably can only conclusively be certain that they are absent from … Read more
Thanks for posting that David. The ‘factoid’ repeated in this story and in various versions elsewhere – that there are only 50-250 Night Parrots in existence – continues to amaze me. Having just completed a PVA (population viability analysis) for Carnaby’s Cockatoo, I have contemplated some of the demographic factors that allow a species to … Read more