By Pieter de Groot Boersma, on May 24th, 2016% Hi people,
The next batch of video highlights from my trip. Highlights include Chestnut Rail, Chestnut-quilled Rock-Pigeon, Partridge Pigeon, White-lined Honeyeater and Blue-winged Kookaburra!
ibc.lynxeds.com/news/video-highlights-darwin-kakadu-national-park-australia
Best regards,
Pieter de Groot Boersma
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By Bill Stent, on May 23rd, 2016% www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-23/mallee-emu-wren-endangered/7437544
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By Birding-Aus, on May 23rd, 2016% Some months ago I put an RFI on Birding-Aus for information regarding a bird guide for Lombok.
I got no replies to my RFI, but I did get requests asking for me to on forward any detail I received, thus I submit this report for the Birding-Aus archives.
My research took me to several . . . → Read More: Lombok personal birding guide and report
By Birding-Aus, on May 23rd, 2016% Good morning all
A group of us started a petition re Carnaby’s Cockatoo. Much of their original habitat has been destroyed and many birds are now roosting in pine forest around Perth. Pine forest is now being removed and while the WA Government plans to replace the trees it won’t happen fast enough to save . . . → Read More: Carnaby’s Cockatoo
By Birding-Aus, on May 23rd, 2016% There are a still a few spots available for the SOSSA trip from Kiama this Saturday.
We leave Kiama Harbour at 7.30am and return around 4pm. If anyone is interested in coming along, please contact SOSSA at sossa@tpg.com.au [1] or on 02 4272 4626
You can get further information at . . . → Read More: Vacancies for SOSSA Kiama pelagic – Saturday 28 May 2016
By Birding-Aus, on May 22nd, 2016% 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: Silver Gull vs. Bivalve
By Birding-Aus, on May 22nd, 2016% ——– 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: Fwd: Re: Odd Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
By Birding-Aus, on May 22nd, 2016% 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: Odd Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
By Birding-Aus, on May 22nd, 2016% 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: Migrating honeyeaters
By Birding-Aus, on May 21st, 2016% For heaven’s sake. John Weigel is doing an ABA Big Year. Full stop. Don’t ascribe your values or prejudices to his. If you don’t appreciate what he is doing, then tune out. The last 20 or so messages to birding-aus with the title John Weigel had almost nothing to do with John.
Paul and Ruth . . . → Read More: Big Year / Big List / Twitch
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