A campaign to secure protection for the recently drained Yandina Creek Wetland on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast continues, but in the meantime, a much smaller though important local wetland has been gutted. The Parklakes Wetland near Bli Bli had provided refuge for good birds including nesting Australian Little Bitterns and Australian Painted Snipe. That wetland has … Read more
I have been contacted by a student who is doing a thesis on call variation in boobook owls, supervised by Frank Rheindt who has been looking at their genetics. She is chasing any recordings of the lurida and leucopsis (ie tropical north Queensland and Tasmanian forms). She has recordings from or will contact the obvious … Read more
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Dear Barney – thank you for the photos. As you say, they are clearly Dusky Moorhens and the Coot does not seem upset by their presence and seems to be sharing the weed quite amicably. I think that is quite unusual. There must have been no shortage of food there. Thanks again. Best wishes, Anthea … Read more
A campaign to secure protection for the recently drained Yandina Creek Wetland on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast continues, but in the meantime, a much smaller though important local wetland has been gutted. The Parklakes Wetland near Bli Bli had provided refuge for good birds including nesting Australian Little Bitterns and Australian Painted Snipe. That wetland has … Read more