Fwd: Brown Songlarks missing in sw Victoria

I have seen Brown Songlark on two separate occasions over the past 3 weeks (possibly the same male) in a known grassland site west of Werribee township in southern Victoria. Richard Nowotny Begin forwarded message: > From: Russell Woodford > Date: 25 November 2013 8:58:54 pm AEST > To: keith brandwood > Cc: Birding Aus … Read more

Orange-bellied Parrots

With guarded optimism, I’d like to bring List readers up to scratch with this season’s OBP news.As of 10/11, only 17 birds had arrived at Melaleuca – 10 females and 7 males. If fewer than 20 birds had arrived by this date, the OBP Recovery Team had decided that captive birds would be released.Therefore, on … Read more

An out of place bird

The Roma St Parklands are an inner city green space centred on a big pond and an intensive garden known as Colin Campbell Place (formerly the Spectacle Garden). CCP is normally inhabited by a family of Superb Fairy Wrens and a heap of Eastern Water Dragons. Buff-banded Rails often manifest there. Occasionally visitors drop in. … Read more

Bush Stone-curlew rediscovered at Innes National Park SA

Hi folks, Not sure about rediscovered but this may be of some interest. goto: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=426894304078117&set=a.193167560784127.30491.187380558029494&type=1&theater Cheers Steve Potter p: 0407398234 e: steve@frontier.org.au =============================== 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 ===============================

Brown Songlarks missing in sw Victoria

They are largely missing in south west WA this season. I have only seen one just north of the Stirling Range in early October. None between Geraldton and Mt Magnet at the same time where I would expect some. Rufous Songlarks are not as common as last year, but that was probably exceptional, and they … Read more