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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: Notes on Cape York Subspecies and Rarities Max Breckenridge, Ashwin Rudder, Nathan Ruser and myself spent the first half of January up around Cape York and Cairns. I have prepared some notes on some of the new splits and mythical rarities around the area, along with our experiences. I am also happy to help out with further information regarding the below mentioned . . . → Read More: Notes on Cape York Subspecies and Rarities I used to be against the feeding of birds, but I now am not so against it. When I was at the Argyle Diamond Mine in the NE Kimberley of WA, at about 5am (or often 9pm the night before) I put out a little bird seed and some sultanas each morning and filled a . . . → Read More: Feeding Birds 26 January: 10 circling Quarry Beach about 3km East of the town. Some 30 minutes later 5 – quite possibly the same birds overflew the airport. A small storm was moving along just out to sea at the time, but no rain on the coast. 27 January: 1 overflew Bastion Point. Humid but no rain. . . . → Read More: Needletails at Mallcoota The discussion on feeding birds has got me thinking about the waders. With their loss of stop-overs on their migratory paths, they are really finding it tough. I am not aware of waders being fed in the same way as the bush birds, but is it possible that artificial feeding does work? Or are they . . . → Read More: Feeding birds Hi all, I have just published a post on my blog about invertebrates, many of which provide food for birds, but are interesting in their own right. I have also included a number of photographs. The blog address is: gregswildliferamblings.blogspot.com.au/ In addition I have been adding photos to the galleries on my website at: www.gregclancyecologistguide.com . . . → Read More: Blog post and website Thank you Greg – for your explanation. We have been birding for some years now but so less experienced than some of you who post on Birding Aus. I have learnt a great deal. However, I can’t promise I will never put out bird seed again and Denise – water! We do however have a . . . → Read More: An interesting read – Why do we feed wild animals? I was reluctant to get involved in this after Greg Clancy was accused of “utter claptrap”, and following the recent complaints about spelling and grammar, and posting reports, I didn’t want to contribute to raising the temperature again. However I offer this for what it is worth: Twenty years ago, we moved on to a . . . → Read More: Feeding birds > > Sorry, Robert and Rupert, bird baths are out too! See www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1264281/Infected-garden-feeders-bird-baths-blamed-deaths-fifth-Britains-greenfinches.html > > However, the National Audubon and several Audubon chapters gives advice on keeping feeders and bird baths clean. See for example www.auduboninternational.org/Resources/Documents/WHM%20-%20Bird%20Feeding.pdf. > > By the way the American Birding Association gives some guidelines on feeding and watering birds, mentioning that . . . → Read More: Fwd: An interesting read – Why do we feed wild animals? The latest IOC list (6.1)has just been released in draft form. The proposed splits of the Catbirds (Ailuroedus) is still just that (i.e proposed). Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org |
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