Hello Robin, Your birds were almost certainly Hoary-headed Grebes. Flocks of thousands are well documented in HANZAB. There is a not very good pic on my website of one of these rafts I took many years ago on the Coorong. www.graemechapman.com.au/library/viewphotos.php?c=225 The fact that they were accompanied by gulls and the odd cormorant suggests to … Read more
Unfortunately the list doesn’t allow pdf attachments, so it’s been removed. Here’s the abstract: Private gardens provide habitat and resources for many birds living in human-dominated landscapes. While wild bird feeding is recognised as one of the most popular forms of human-wildlife interaction, almost nothing is known about the use of bird baths. This citizen … Read more
Hi folks An interesting paper regarding bird baths and the use of citizen science to collect data. Mona > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Grainne Cleary < g.cleary@deakin.edu.au> > Subject: [ACSA] Bathing Birds is published! > Date: 17 March 2016 3:21:27 pm AEDT > To: “mailman@citizenscience.org.au” < mailman@citizenscience.org.au> > > Hi All – We … Read more