I lived in Wyndham for 6 years in the early noughties. Those Guinea fowl were pets of the local general store owners (house immediately west of caravan park entrance) for many decades handed down from parents to daughter and her subsequent family when they took over the store on parent’s retirement. Now she too has … Read more
Day 1 We left Melbourne on Saturday Sept 20 at 2.30 am to meet up with a few birding friends at Point Danger near Portland to locate the Cape Gannet. We arrived about 7.30am after driving through the night and were immediately given great views of the bird because Farnsy, John and Kay had found … Read more
Hi Birding Aus, i’m looking for information from birders about swift parrot sightings in the last two weeks. In particular, if there are birders in the Newcastle/Budgewoi area, i’d like confirmation of a sighting of large numbers of birds in that area recently. Likewise, for Tasmanian birders, please pass on any sightings of swifties ASAP … Read more
Hi, I just came cross your post on hybrisation between Long Billed Corella and Little Corella and Galahs. Is it certain that these species hybridise with long-Billed? Are there photos of this? I live in Perth, WA, and in my local flocks of Little Corella I have discovered at least a dozen hybrids with Galahs. … Read more
Hello All I have just returned from a two week Central Australia birding adventure with a mate of mine, Ken Haines. We have been planning this trip for some months now and the two weeks of school holidays was a great opportunity to implement this trip. We prepared for this trip using a number of … Read more