By Pieter de Groot Boersma, on May 21st, 2016% Hi people,
Video highlights from species seen from Pine Creek to Darwin and surroundings. Highlights include Hooded Parrot, Rainbow Pitta, Silver-backed Butcherbird, Radjah Shelduck and Red-headed Honeyeater! ibc.lynxeds.com/news/video-highlights-pine-creek-sites-around-darwin
Best regards,
Pieter de Groot Boersma
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By Birding-Aus, on May 20th, 2016% Hi All,
Some exciting news about Australian Field Ornithology – All papers back to Volume 1 Issue 1 in 1959 are now available online as a pdf and can be downloaded as individual papers. There are some real gems in here from a very impressive number of contributors.
Australian Field Ornithology publishes papers on a . . . → Read More: Australian Field Ornithology – all back issues now online
By Birding-Aus, on May 20th, 2016% The following is a digest of Sightings Reported on Birdpedia for the period Monday, May 23, 2016 to Sunday, May 29, 2016:
Area: SA
Location: Mutton Cove Conservation Park
Brown Quail (Coturnix ypsilophora) (4) 4 adult birds seen foraging along fenceline near entrance gate by carpark on Mersey Rd.
Reported by: Ali Ben Kahn on . . . → Read More: Birdpedia – Australia – Weekly Digest
By Birding-Aus, on May 19th, 2016% A fascinating concept. Not sure if this process occurs in the case of Australian cuckoos and their hosts
See www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/160518094714.htm
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By Birding-Aus, on May 19th, 2016% Hi everyone, I will be out at Milperra in the next couple of weeks and might take the opportunity to visit Deepwater Park in Milperra one morning. I’ve not been to this location before so I’m hoping someone could help me out with information about what species I can find and where to find them. . . . → Read More: RFI – Deepwater Park, Milperra
By Birding-Aus, on May 19th, 2016% I have a memory of some research (possibly that to Chris refers) indicating that lack of understory is required for Noisy Miners to become a problem.
It seems to be easier to remove the Miners than to re-establish understory – especially in times where understory seems to be officially regarded as little more than a . . . → Read More: For info: Cull Noisy Miners?
By Birding-Aus, on May 19th, 2016% A study of sites near Canberra (?) and NSW showed that noisy miner numbers were negatively correlated with fine leaved wattles (Acacia decurrens, A. parramattensis, A baileyana etc.)
These wattles are extremely quick growing but can be very weedy so important (possibly more than any other native except a grass) to get local provenance if . . . → Read More: For info: Cull Noisy Miners?
By Birding-Aus, on May 19th, 2016% There was also a trial removing Bell Miners by Jim Shields at Pambula about 10 years ago that led to an increase of small birds and the Miners staying away.
Some ANU students did surveys of woodlands around Cowra a few years ago assessing the effects on Noisy Miners with a relationship to the vegetation . . . → Read More: For info: Cull Noisy Miners?
By Birding-Aus, on May 19th, 2016% Hi Frank had a look for the Shelduck this morning with a nil result. Keith Brandwood the beautiful Hawkesbury 60km N/W Sydney
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