On South Ballina Beach today I observed an unfortunate Silver Gull with a pipi (Plebidonax deltoides) firmly clamped to a toe on its left foot. I can only speculate how this happened, but possibly the gull stood on the pipi’s foot as it was surfing with the tide, or maybe the Gull was trying for … Read more
——– Original Message ——– Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Odd Sulphur-crested Cockatoo From: brian fleming < flambeau@labyrinth.net.au> To: Gil Langfield < gil.langfield@bigpond.com> Sometimes these hybrids arise in the wild when species A lays an egg or eggs in a nest-hollow, which is then taken over by species B. Young birds of species A hatch and are reared … Read more
A friend near Macedon, Victoria sent me some photos of a Cockatoo with pink back, wing and upper tail feathers. HANZAB suggests hybrids in captivity with Galahs and Major Mitchell’s Cockatoo but they do not have pink wings. I am happy to send anybody the photos if you contact me offline. Suggestions please. Regards, Gil … Read more
Hi all, For the last few weeks I have been watching flocks of honeyeaters, mainly Yellow-faced as far as I can tell, moving past my place at Como, in southern Sydney (34degree 59 S, 151 degrees, 04 E). Interested to see that every one of them so far, without exception, have been moving pretty much … Read more