Yellow-rumped Pardalote

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: Yellow-rumped Pardalote

Honeyeater migration and NSW South Coast flowering Apr/May 16

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: Honeyeater migration and NSW South Coast flowering Apr/May 16

Starlings as shorebirds

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: Starlings as shorebirds

Egyptian Geese, lupines and xenophobia

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: Egyptian Geese, lupines and xenophobia