BirdLife Australia has received a brief submission including one very pixilated photo from a ranger on the Coburg Peninsula NT claiming a Black-headed Gull seen on 20 March 2016 on Sandy Island No. 2. To me, the bird looks like an adult Great Black-headed = Pallas’s Gull in winter plumage! If anyone has access to … Read more
The following is a digest of Sightings Reported on Birdpedia for the period Monday, March 28, 2016 to Sunday, April 3, 2016: Area: SA Location: Kangaroo Island Whistling Kite (Haliastur sphenurus) (2) a pair over NW Curly Creek sector of Murrays Lagoon, Cape Cantheaume CP, 29 Mar 2016; my first observation of a pair of … Read more
Hi people, Another batch of highlights from my big trip, driving large distances in SE Australia in search of species like these following highlights: Plains-wanderer, Inland Dotterel, Rockwarbler, Powerful Owl and Eastern Shrike-tit! ibc.lynxeds.com/news/video-highlights-phil-mahers-plains-wanderer-trip-sites-se-queensland-e-new-south-wales Best regards, Pieter de Groot Boersma 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
Hi Birding-Aus, I’ve recently noticed on the Birdlife subspecies list, that it lists two different subspecies of the introduced Spotted Dove – both the *Eastern Asian Spotted Dove* (*S. c. chinensis*) and the *Southern Asian Spotted Dove* (*S. c. ceylonensis*). My question is, were two different subspecies introduced or is one the common feral mainland … Read more
Here are a few observations from a four day bushwalk in the back blocks of Lamington National Park (SEQ) over Easter. Duck Creek Road has deteriorated a lot over the last couple of years. It is a private road with maintenance funded by a donation box. A lot of wombats get their jollies traversing this … Read more