Extinction Emergency

This is a link to more information about a talk this Thursday night in Storey Hall, City, 6 pm. Richard di Natale, Tim Flannery, David Lindenmayer, Sarah Rees. They’ll concentrate on the Leadbeater’s Possum but plenty of birds threatened by logging in the Central Highlands, too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FU6IVXKXvtQ =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send … Read more

Mystery Call from Royal NP, Sydney

Hi all, I discovered this call on a recording I made in early March this year in the Royal National Park, NSW. http://xeno-canto.org/146261 Rose Robin’s were in the area and heard soon after this call ( here is the Rose Robin call for comparison – http://xeno-canto.org/146119 ), so it could possibly be an atypical Rose … Read more

Grey Falcon, Mitchell River northern Queensland.

Last Wednesday 21st August a guest and myself were lunching at Cooktown Crossing on the Mitchell River about 35 kn west of Mt. Carbine. At the time there were about forty Black Kites circling above the river to the height of one hundred metres catching insects of some type with eloquent ease. We watched this … Read more

Submitting to the Atlas made easy on Eremaea

Hey everyone I just noticed the other day that Eremaea has changed the specifications for submitting your lists to the atlas. Now, rather than having to record a count for every species you see as previously was the case, you can now just send the list off after selecting the size of the survey area … Read more

Flock Bronzewing (Peter Dostine)

http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/180620221?selectedversion=NBD51230967 http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2010/02/03/120811_ntnews.html http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2010/02/04/2809983.htm http://www.savanna.org.au/all/conservation_issues.html Not that it precludes any further work, but there has been one PhD on Flock Bronzewing by Peter Dostine. Looks like theres no pdf of the Thesis available online, but a couple of news articles (above) Colin 2009, English, Thesis edition: The ecology and conservation of the Flock Bronzewing Pigeon : … Read more