A friend’s daughter has just returned from Thailand with pertussis (whooping cough). It took doctors here some weeks to diagnose (they originally thought she might have tuberculosis). So travelling birders, have all your immunisations and take out travel insurance before heading overseas. Denise Denise Lawungkurr Goodfellow PO Box 71 Darwin River, NT, Australia 0841 PhD … Read more
Please see below. Sent from my iPad Begin forwarded message: From: Mick Roderick Date: 2 June 2014 6:27:39 pm AEST To: Nikolas Haass , Stephen Murray , “birding-aus@birding-aus.org” Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Strange Petrel Reply-To: Mick Roderick Murphy’s crossed my mind too Nikolas, but the bird does look more like an “unusual Cookilaria” than what I … Read more
From: mcachard@hotmail.com To: sjmurray3@bigpond.com Subject: RE: [Birding-Aus] Strange Petrel how about a dark morph Herald Petrel ?? size & jizz would fit better than Murphy’s, wouldn’t it?? or was this bird too far north for a Herald?? cheers, martin cachard, cairns > From: sjmurray3@bigpond.com > To: birding-aus@birding-aus.org > Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 16:20:03 +1000 … Read more
I was recently at the Lambert Centre in Central Australia where I observed a pair of what I thought were Thornbills. They were foraging on the ground with occasional short flights into the lower branches of bushes. I didn’t notice any streaks, flecks or mottles and the rump seemed to be the same colour as … Read more
A Koel is calling in the forest behind my house. I’ve no records of one this late. Anybody else? Denise Denise Lawungkurr Goodfellow PO Box 71 Darwin River, NT, Australia 0841 PhD candidate Vice-chair Wildlife Tourism Australia goodfellow@bigpond.com.au _______________________________________________ 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