Hi All An extremely successful spotlighting outing with Alan Gillanders around Atherton tonight (Jan 22) allowed excellent photo opportunities for both the Eastern Grass Owl and Lesser Sooty Owl. A huge thank you to Alan for getting us so close to these birds. The LSO was less than 10 metres up a tree calling and … Read more
Hello In August last year Steve Seymour and I visited Billiatt Conservation Park in the South Australia mallee to see what bird species survived January¹s fire. I¹ve just got around to posting a report of the visit on our website. http://www.philipmaher.com/BilliattCPreport2014.html Philip Maher Deniliquin Australian Ornithological Services Pty Ltd PO Box 385 South Yarra 3141 … Read more
G’day For those of you who like to put together day lists, the Cornell Lab Great Backyard Bird Count is happening in a few weeks time. Details are at http://gbbc.birdcount.org/get-started/ If you think you will be in an interesting bird location over February 13-16, you might like to add your observations to the pot. Regards, … Read more
The following study contrasts the fortunes of Chinstrap and Gentoo Penguins see http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/01/150120121304.htm Original study: MJ Polito, WZ Trivelpiece, WP Patterson, NJ Karnovsky, CS Reiss, SD Emslie. Contrasting specialist and generalist patterns facilitate foraging niche partitioning in sympatric populations of Pygoscelis penguins. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2015; 519: 221 DOI: 10.3354/meps11095 Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org … Read more
Geoff What a great trip! I’d love to visit those remote islands. Cheers David On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Geoffrey Allan Jones < gjo48414@bigpond.net.au> wrote: > Afternoon Everyone > > Last November I did a 14 day > Pelagic-Island hopping trip in the French Polynesian area Flying from > Papeete to Mangareva … Read more