Does anyone know if LSnipe will forage in the rain? Yesterday afternoon/evening I saw none at my usual March-staging observation-post — It was rainy & misty, but being wetland-birds northering & feeding-up, they seemed worth looking for, as I was passing. Judith SEQ wetland 400m Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: … Read more
– After a start with few Cuckoos, by midsummer the count had progressed to zero, & now there has been no northering cuckoo migration seen or heard here. (Even the non-migrant, non-parasitic Pheasant Coucals have this season been conspicuously silent.) – There have been horribly few WTNs to report to MikeT. All these migrant species … Read more
Since I wrote about this in 2015, Galah numbers in my bit of country have fallen to zero. Last time I saw any here they were 4 flashing through. As I probably said last time I wrote, Galah numbers had increased steadily from the late 1990s until the decline which began in the 20teens. As … Read more
Thanks all who had input for this. Because the call was outside a bedroom here (ex-rainforest hills), I’m thinking maybe birds often make calls that are too quiet for us to hear — indeed, this may be the point of the quietness. So I’m going for Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove, at sound-quality unlikely to be heard usually. … Read more
I was perhaps the only serious passenger birder on the 32-day Ross Sea Expedition, 15 Feb to 17 March, from Bluff, NZ, to Campbell Island, the Ross Sea, then parallel to the Antarctic Coast to Peter I Island, the Antarctic Peninsular and ending in Ushuaia. My main reason to go was to see an Emperor … Read more