More birding items in the news

“The Surprising Way Birds Are Trying To Dodge Climate Change: New research shows that some birds are moving faster than ever to keep up with shifting climates. Here’s where they’re going.” see www.audubon.org/news/the-surprising-way-birds-are-trying-dodge-climate-change The Language of Sparrows: How Bird Songs Are Evolving To Compete With Urban Noise see baynature.org/articles/the-language-of-sparrows/ Slaughter of the song birds Songbirds … Read more

Different breeds co-operating.

I spent a week on a houseboat on the Murray over New Year and around the boat there were a few Coots and Dusky Moorhens. The creek we were on the water was very clear and you could see the weed growing up from the bottom but stopping 600 mm from the surface. The Coots … Read more

WT Needletails

Approximately 150 White-Throated Needletails hawking very low over Palm Beach, QLD at 0800 today. I regularly see small flocks of 20 to 40 birds in the area, but the size of this gathering and the fact that the majority were around power line height made for some spectacular viewing. Jack Worcester Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org … Read more

Notes on Cape York Subspecies and Rarities

Read your report on Cloudbirders with much interest Josh. Excellent report. (Fantastic to see the younger generation doing this sort of thing and getting it all spot on!) Your comment on Red Boobook is the only thing I picked up which is not quite correct. I think I can say emphatically that there is no … Read more