Day: April 22, 2017

Hi Lawrie Anything is possible. I had a 20 year mist netting project near Springvale/Braeside Victoria. My only bird found with a band – dead away from the research area was a Blackbird that had moved around 1 km. Their biggest movement from the ABBBS was 57 km see: www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/biodiversity/abbbs/abbbs-search.pl?taxon_id=596 I like Blackbirds and I … Read more

Hi birders Back in 2004 on Birding-Aus I wrote this: “… /Some musing on that feral pest the Common Blackbird (Turdus merula) in Victoria, Australia …./ /A couple of observations this Autumn have me wondering whether some proportion of the Victorian Blackbird population might be migratory – even if its just the kind of altitudinal … Read more