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Hi all, Please see the details below regarding a short-notice pelagic trip off Augusta. It is a fairly large boat, so a minimum of 25 pax is required for the trip to go ahead. If you would like to book a place, or more information, please contact Plaxy (cc’d in above) Cheers, John With the . . . → Read More: Augusta Pelagic Trip 6th May Hi all, We have an international client who would like a day’s guided birding around Sydney (including the Blue Mountains) either with a professional bird guide or experienced birdingpal. It’s not until October but if anyone is interested fitting either of these criteria please contact me for details. cheers, Peter ——- Peter Waanders *Managing Director* . . . → Read More: guide needed for a day’s birding around Sydney A Noisy Pitta turned up in suburban Bellbowrie ( a suburb on the other side of the river from Ipswich for those lucky enough not to be living in Brisbane) this morning. Now according to the font of all family ornithological wisdom, my mother, this is not a very common sighting for these parts. Escapee, . . . → Read More: Noisy Pitta in Western Brisbane 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 . . . → Read More: Birding-Aus Digest, Vol 42, Issue 20 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: Blackbird migratory behaviour in Australia? An extract from my forthcoming New Guinea Field Guide Papuan Pitta Erythropitta macklotii Uncommon resident (NG) L 17 cm. Six subspecies in region in 3 groups: Papuan Pitta mack- lotii bright orange-rufous nape, no pale blue on head, variable black breast band (W and S NG including W Papuan Is, Yapen and Aru Is); digglesi . . . → Read More: Papuan Pitta Hi Mike and Michael, The taxonomy used in the two volume Lynx Non-Passerines and Passerines editions is their own Lynx-BirdLife one, not the IOC. It is actually now the most radical taxonomy of them all and recognises something like 10965 species, with more to come in due course. The taxonomy is heavily based on morphological . . . → Read More: Lynx Birds of the World Hi All. Following the Pitta name change posting I have been delving into Lynx’s “Birds of the World” in which the current IOC taxonomy is used. These are a quite fantastic two volumes, particularly for those bird when the travelling around the world. For instance we twitched the Big Island of Hawaii recently,( . . . → Read More: Bird names The IOC 7.2 update is now available at www.worldbirdnames.org/updates/ From what I can see the only changes that effect the Australian list are all to do with alterations in the taxonomical names: Sarus Crane and Brolga are now in the new genus Antigone and the Ruff, Broad-billed Sandpiper and Buff-breasted Sandpiper and once again included . . . → Read More: IOC 7.2 update At 13.15 hrs, today 20/4/2017, I was surprised to see a single Fork-tailed Swift flying over my garden in Altona, Victoria. I live close to Truganina Swamp reserve and nearby Laverton Creek. The swift first appeared flying south to north then reappeared over my roof top heading in southerly direction , which would be towards . . . → Read More: Fork-tailed Swift , Altona, Victoria. |
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