Recent Gen for Mt Isa

Ausers…am heading up to Mt Isa for work next week and thinking of staying the weekend.  Any recent Gen on the area would be appreciated.  Will also be staying at Phosphate Hill for a few nights and am curious if any one on the list has experience in this very remote mining area?  Cheers, Roger Roger McNeill Samford … Read more

RFI: Perth birding guides

Hi Luke, There is also a google group for WA Birds called BirdsWA that would be worth joining and asking the question in. Cheers, Ross Sent from Windows Mail From: Luke Shelley Sent: ‎Thursday‎, ‎12‎ ‎February‎ ‎2015 ‎2‎:‎34‎ ‎PM To: birding-aus@birding-aus.org This is an RFI regarding birding guides (paid for services) around Perth. I haven’t … Read more

The Great Backyard Bird Count starts tomorrow (Feb 13 – 16)

You can lodge your sightings over the next 4 days if you want to participate in a global event – see http://gbbc.birdcount.org From memory, Australia finished about 5th in the world ranking (for the number of species logged) last year. It would be interesting to know whether the first species logged this year is an … Read more

Trevor Quested

Like other people commenting here I never met Trevor, but he was posting on birding-aus when I first joined (back in 96) and his posts showed a great knowledge of birds and great love of the natural world. I am sad he is no longer with us. — John Leonard Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To … Read more

Wauraltee Beach Oriental Plovers

Well that was an interesting day. Drove 200km to the above beach to look for the plovers as reported on Birdpedia and found the place We drove several km up and down the beach but had no luck. We also didn’t find the reef they had been on, neither did we see any rocks at … Read more