Chiltern

Heading to Chiltern next month with my local birding group. Would like to do some spotlighting, Nightjars etc. Any suggestions on locations would be appreciated. Regards, Peter Sent from my iPhone 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

Feel like counting Penguins

The Australian Antarctic Division has started a citizen science project where volunteers count penguins in images taken by remote cameras. Details of the project, Penguin Watch, can be found at http://www.antarctica.gov.au/news/2014/wanted-volunteers-to-count-antarctic-penguins Or you can get straight into it at http://www.penguinwatch.org Carl Clifford 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

Need a bit bigger SD card?

For those on the list who like to really blaze away at birds with their DSLR, Sandisk have just announced a 512 Gig SD card. Rather mind boggling really, that is roughly twice the capacity of my desktop, laptop, iPod and iPad combined. You can read about it at http://time.com/3386685/sandisk-512gb-memory-card/ It will probably cost around … Read more

SA outback update – grasswrens galore

Hi all, In recent weeks we’ve made 2 trips up the Birdsville track and 2 trips up the Strzelecki track as well as visited other parts of outback SA. I thought I’d provide a brief update on our findings. In recent years numbers of small ground-dwelling birds, particularly grasswrens, have crashed, for reasons unclear to … Read more

Channel-billed Cuckoo

It is Channel-billed Cuckoo, not Channel Billed Cuckoo. As channel is descriptive of the bill. Not a cuckoo with both a channel and a bill. Philip 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