A colleague and I were visiting Yanga National Park in NSW today and identified what were certainly a number of white winged (black) terns (Chlidonias leucopeterus) in developing breeding plumage (black appearing on the lower chest and belly). They weren’t on the Park’s bird list. There were other terns too, but too far away to … Read more
I saw my first two White-throated Needletails for this season this morning while participating in a monthly bird survey at Eatons Crossing, SEQ. They were following the upstream course of the South Pine River. The co-ords were S27 20’53.0″ and E152 56’35.8′ Saddened to read that the status of WTNTs is now declared as vulnerable. … Read more
Hi all There seems to have been a few expeditions to Iron Range lately and we are joining the club in a few weeks in early November. We would greatly appreciate any up-to-date info on any of the harder-to-find species around Iron Range, also the wet tropics endemics in the tablelands. We will be focussing … Read more
The following is a digest of Sightings Reported on Birdpedia for the period Monday, October 12, 2015 to Sunday, October 18, 2015: Area: SA Location: Kangaroo Island White-winged Triller (Lalage tricolor) (2) two males, 250 m S of Snellings Beach, N coast of Kangaroo Island, 6 October 2015 (Katrina Ramsay per Chris Baxter). Extremely rare … Read more
G’day Bird Enthusiasts Stephen Garnett has just informed me that the WTNT has been declared Vulnerable. Thank you all for helping to collect the data to make this declaration. Here are the details: White-throated Needletail Hirundapus caudacutus caudacutus Listed in Australia as Vulnerable A2b+3b+4b Evidence has been presented in Tarburton (2014) that there has been … Read more