Day: December 26, 2016

Birdlife International (HWB) has recently updated their list (now Version 9), I have been slowly working through the list. Changes that I had previously reported are: a) Non-passarines remain substantially unchanged from Version 8 b) Passerines have been completely reordered with at least 25 new genus being added that effect Australia. Most of these are … Read more

This light bit of Christmas reading includes a timeline of high-points of birding starting 40k years ago in Australia (of course) but then becomes a bit UK-oriented. Birding seems to be an attraction to comedians. We Aussies could probably do a good time-line that doesn’t move off-shore. Merry Christmas, all Peter Morgan www.cntraveller.com/recommended/culture/urban-birding-london-birdwatching The conservation … Read more