Malaysia Post: Bird photo “piracy case”

http://news.malaysia.msn.com/malaysia-news/stolen-photo-used-in-a-malaysian-stamp http://birdphotoph.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=general&thread=9074&page=1 This may have popped up on Birding Aus previously?. In this recent case Malaysian Post has used a Photo of a Long-tailed Shrike without permission on a new stamp, and even worse has named it as a White-fronted Falconet. It has now been suggested that the other five photos (in the series of … Read more

Red-lored Whistler on the Morcombe App

Hi Recently out at Nombinnie one of our party played both the Red-lored and Gilbert’s calls from the app so we would know what we were hearing but they both sounded the same like “chooey chooey”, while some one else had the BOCA CD on their phone which had a very different call for the … Read more

Racial Id of White Wagtail at Point Samson

Heya folks, After consulting the literature and the wisdom of the internet I believe that the White Wagtail that we observed at Point to be of the race baicalensis. Photos of the bird here: http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?p=2861371#post2861371 Comments and pointers are appreciated. How many times has this race been recorded in Australia? Cheers, D. =============================== To unsubscribe … Read more

Owlet-nightjars

Thank you to all of you who responded re the owlet-nightjar, it was interesting to hear how adaptable they can be. Debbie and Julian Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPad =============================== 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 ===============================