A few years ago I initiated a discussion on BA as to whether the Yellow-rumped Pardalote (aka Spotted Pardalote ssp xanthopyge) was a separate sp. I pointed out that it looks different, sounds different and lives in different habitat to the Spotted Pardalote and asked whether it interbred with Spotted Pardalotes where it met with … Read more
Hi Folks There was quite a bit of email chatter earlier this year, about April/May, regarding the large number of honeyeaters, in particular Yellow-faced Honeyeaters, ‘reverse’ migrating south to woodlands around Jervis Bay and further that were in abundant bloom. I’m keen to know the species that were flowering (being a botanical buffoon myself!) and … Read more
Starlings as shorebirds As a marine biologist, who is also a birder, and who has worked a lot in intertidal areas I have regularly come across ‘trespassing landbirds’, that act as shorebirds. There are of course a few specialists also here, such as a number of Cinclodes species in South America, Cobb’s Wren in the … Read more
Egyptian Geese, starlings. lupines and xenophoba Today was a sunny day in Tromsø, N. Norway, a respite between rain yesterday and rain tomorrow (Not terribly hot, though, +5*C this morning when I went out at 10 am). It is clearly autumn here now, the birches are yellowing, mushrooms everywhere. the swallows and terns are gone, … Read more