Laurie, It was described in Emu 116(4) last year. All Birdlife Australia members now get free access to Emu online – which I think BLA deserves big credit for – the paper can be found at www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1071/MU16005 Short answer to your question is that they are found in the far NE of South Australia and … Read more
Thx, Tom. During March is when I’ve seen them fattening at this site. Also, if you “follow” the Latham’s Snipe Project (WordPress) you’ll see they’re still moving at this time. (They’re then gone from here by April.) Cheers Judith On 26 March 2017 at 11:39, Tom Tarrant < aviceda@gmail.com> wrote: > They would have left … Read more
G’day I was working my way through the 2017 IOC v7.1 checklist and noticed a newly described race of the Aus Ringneck – B. z. parker. IOC refers to “Forshaw & Joseph, 2016” and notes its range is NE South Australia, SW Queensland. Does anyone have any information on this race [e.g. a map of … Read more
How are they going to show someone a Night Parrot ? Walk in a line and kick every Spinifex bush to flush one. Sit in a group and run playbacks all night . Or tell them “Sorry you should have been here last week, they were here then ” It took weeks if not months … Read more
The following is a digest of Sightings Reported on Birdpedia for the period Monday, March 27, 2017 to Sunday, April 2, 2017: Area: SA Location: Murray Bridge SA Black-chinned Honeyeater (Melithreptus gularis) (1) At Waterford Estate, Murray Bridge. First time I have seen these in the Murray Bridge area. Poor pics attached Reported by: Gordon … Read more