Day: March 27, 2014

http://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/news/national/hunters-want-to-target-rebuilt-numbers-of-freckled-ducks/story-fnkfnspy-1226865101490The Victorian Field & Game Association is pressing for Freckled Ducks to be reinstated as game birds during Victoria’s duck hunting season. _______________________________________________ Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org

Dear Friends, I wanted to first of all thank each of you for your words of welcome to two transplants from the US and all the wonderful birding advice we have received from this forum. What an amazing set of birds you have here! I still can’t get over the Gang-Gang and Yellow-Tailed Blacks in … Read more

Hi All Can I just take this opportunity to thank all those people who contacted me about my request yesterday on advice on where to find my target birds. It just again demonstrates how wonderful the birding community is and how people make a big effort to share their knowledge for the benefit of others. … Read more

One for the Western Australians, The sixth Great Cocky Count (GCC), WA’s biggest survey for Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo, will be held on 6 April 2014. During this annual community-based survey, volunteers count Carnaby’s at night-time roost sites across the southwest of the state on a single night in April. The 2014 GCC will also count red-tailed … Read more

The proposed change in taxonomic status of the Norfolk Island Parrot on the BirdLife International world list will bring it into line with global species classifications under the species approach used by BirdLife International. The change will have no effect on the conservation of this critically endangered endemic Australian bird. In Australia species and subspecies … Read more