Thanks Jason! This indeed looks promising! There are of course dozens of other birds on my list, so let’s hope they are just as easy with Peter leading the way. But in the end we only get what we get, and that’s it. A lot relies on good luck and coincidence. But still wishing for . . . → Read More: Back from Finland to Australia, NSW: Sydney, Moss Vale, Parkes etc.
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Heard an Olive-backed Oriole calling in a eucalypt in my back garden at Vista today at 10.20 a.m. It called several times and was being harassed by Red Wattlebirds. I had good views of it before it flew off to adjoining gardens and I lost it. Tony. Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or . . . → Read More: New bird for my back garden in NE Adelaide The following is a digest of Sightings Reported on Birdpedia for the period Monday, August 31, 2015 to Sunday, September 6, 2015: Area: SA Location: Perry’s Bend, Onkaparinga River Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus) (1) A single bird foraging/diving along the margins of the river where there are large schools of tiny bait fish at . . . → Read More: Birdpedia – Australia – Weekly Digest That sounds like a great trip Harry. Just a few comments to your list as it relates to the Northern Beaches of Sydney: -Australian Brushturkey -Eastern Whipbird -Variegated Fairy-wren -Scarlet HE -Robins (Rose) If you’re heading to Warriewood, you could see all these at Irrawong Reserve, which adjoins the wetlands <1km. The first three are . . . → Read More: Back from Finland to Australia, NSW: Sydney, Moss Vale, Parkes etc. Hello to all the good people of Birding-aus! Good news (at least to me): I am returning to Australia (from Finland) early Monday morning Sep 7th on a business trip with my colleague Markku! Our work will this time be centered in Parkes. The last (also first) time I was in Australia, was in 2012 . . . → Read More: Back from Finland to Australia, NSW: Sydney, Moss Vale, Parkes etc. see http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/02/conservationists-step-up-anti-fox-effort-after-attack-on-sydney-penguin-colony 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 It was an old trick of the bird poachers when they were taking the young Majors from the nests to place young Galahs in the nest so that the Majors would rear them and use the same hollow the next year. They were always active in N. S.W. in the week of the Melbourne Cup . . . → Read More: x breeding in the wild. Speaking of hybrids. In the wild it takes a bit more to create a hybrid but when two lonely birds are housed in the same aviary one never knows…. I was shocked with this one. A blue Princess Parrot female with her mate a male Scarlet-chested parrot. And yes they produced a chick that looks . . . → Read More: More amazing hybrids. I may have mentioned this one before Cross breeding in closely related parrots in the wild is well known, but the reasons why and the associated life history mechanisms are not. Many years ago when, with Ian Rowley, I was lucky enough to study Major Mitchell’s Cockatoos for some years in Western Australia, we were able to document, using marked individuals, just . . . → Read More: X Breeding in the wild. I had to smile on the theme of ‘hoax’ bird sightings yesterday! The irony and timing is amazing! Bok Sent from my iPhone Bernard O’Keefe Applied Learning Coordinator Caroline Chisholm Catholic College 204 Churchill Avenue, Braybrook. 3019 T: 03 9296 5311 | F: 03 9296 5381 E: b.okeefe@cccc.vic.edu.au W: www.cccc.vic.edu.au ————————————————————– This Email and any . . . → Read More: Hoax bird sightings |
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