Month: March 2017

mystery bird on YouTube

1.07 minutes into this video on Trovants (a peculiar form of sandstone
boulders found in Rumania), there is an appearance of a bird I can’t
identify. I would say it definitely isn’t a European bird and looks more
like a S American sub-oscine.

A screen-capture is here:

www.jleonard.net/mysterybird.jpg

But you might get more detail by watching the video.

cheers

—
John Leonard

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Birding guide, Sri Lanka

I can also very highly recommend the Bird and Wildlife Team.Our guide
was Udithe Hettige (spelling?). He knew all the birds, mammals,
reptiles, butterflies, frogs, dragonflies, etc.

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Frank O’Connor Birding WA
birdingwa.iinet.net.au
Phone : (08) 9386 5694 Email : foconnor@iinet.net.au

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Birding guide, Sri Lanka

Martin

I highly recommend Chandima Jayaweer of Birding Sri Lanka
www.birdingsrilanka.com/.

You will be guaranteed all the endemics and specialties in a well-organised
and comfortable tour at a fraction of the cost of the bigger company tours.

See trip report here:

www.surfbirds.com/trip_report.php?id=2312

Greg Roberts
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sunshinecoastbirds.blogspot.com.au/

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Forrest Beach Ft Swift sighting again.

Gooday Michael and all,
Today 29 March 6.20 at Forrest Beach Qld. I observed another sparse flock of 30+ Ft Swifts accompanied by some smaller Swifts flying in a Southerly direction. Weather conditions were calm with high cloud. Sorry Michael for calling you Mark in the previous report. Didn’t have my glasses to try and identify the smaller swifts.
Good birding,
Jon Wren

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Bellbird back online (ADVERTISEMENT of sorts)

Hi all,

Just a quick message to let you know that we’re back online and that we’re
offering a 5% discount on selected birding tours.

Late last week and over the weekend our website host and domain provider,
WebCity, experienced a total blackout for 3 days. Our apologies if you’ve
been trying to contact us but emails you may have sent to us during that
period may have gone missing in cyberspace forever. Please try again.

Needless to say we’ve changed providers and to sweeten the pain we’re
offering 5% off on selected tours – click here to find out which ones:

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Happy birding!

cheers,
Peter

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/ Australian Birding Store

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Cash for Night Parrot

Adam Riley, the owner of South African birding tour company Rockjumper, has
clarified his connection to glamping trips to the Pullen Pullen Night
Parrot Reserve in western Queensland.

Meanwhile, concerns have been raised about a new barbed wire fence
installed along the western boundary of Pullen Pullen by the reserves
owner, Bush Heritage Australia.

More here:

sunshinecoastbirds.blogspot.com.au/2017/03/night-parrot-south-african-connection.html

Greg Roberts
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Fork-tailed Swifts at Forrest Beach Qld.

Gooday all and Mark.
At 17.20 Tuesday 28 March at Forrest Beach 18 45 S 145 20? I observed 19 F-t Swifts flying in a Southerly direction in a sparse flock. The position of the sighting is on the Northern side of Cyclone Debbie with the weather here being very calm with light rain.
Regards
Jon Wren

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