Day: March 20, 2014

I just saw the latest version of splits and lumps from BirdLife, see the thread on Birdforum or google BIrdLife 2014 Splits and lumps. Certainly plenty of splits, but a couple of very irritating lumps as well, as according to them Norfolk (Is) Parakeet or Tasman Parakeet and New Caledonian Parakeet are part of Red-crowned … Read more

I guess if there were SCCs around the Arnhem land area half a millennium ago they could have been traded by the Malaccans up to China and other points along with the Trepang. You can almost picture some wizened Malaccan sea dog with a sulphur on his or her shoulder as their Dhow ploughed on … Read more