Travelling across the Plenty Highway yesterday, we had 4 Cinnamon Quail-thrush about 65 km west of Tobermory Station on the Qld border. The Pizzey and Morcombe apps have very different information on distribution and race for this bird. Going on Pizzey, we probably saw the race tiriarense. Can someone confirm or comment otherwise, please? There . . . → Read More: Which quail-thrush?
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G’day/Evening BA Members A few weeks ago I calculated the average flock size for the 2016/17 season so as to include it in an application to the Aus Govt. for listing the WTNT as in serious decline. The flock size was again smaller than that for the previous year. However, I am still wanting as . . . → Read More: White-throated Needletail & Fork-tailed (Pacific) Swifts sightings: Report Time Please. *GARBAGE CHOOKS* With scorn ye call us Garbage Chooks A monicker fallacious For if ye examine your abuse Ye’ll find it quite mendacious. It is your ilk, the plaguing ape Whose actions are obscene Destroying fruit-filled forests And grassy lands serene Replacing all with ugliness Your sterile roads and nests Which suffocate all other life . . . → Read More: Garbage Chooks Would you like to see the Top End birds during the ‘cooler’ time of the year? We still have two seats available on our Best of Top End Birding tour July 19-27, 2017. For more info please check www.experiencethewild.com.au/?p=Tours-9-Day-Best-of-Top-End Enquire about our late booking deal!! Mike and Jenny Jarvis Experience the Wild PO . . . → Read More: Best of Top End Birding – ADVERTISEMENT In the course of quite a few years working on Five Islands NR I have watched the breeding antics of four of the aforementioned D-Chooks, ravens, gulls, pelicans and ibis, as they ferry human waste from Whytes Gully land fill to their offspring on the island. This leaves new starters on the island to ponder . . . → Read More: Dump-chooks and what they collect Oorts are fragments of chewed up grass (or other similar material) that are spat out by small mammals, especially Bettongs, probably because these remnants are too fibrous to swallow. Ecologists are using them to help measure activity of bettongs at different sites and also to collect DNA from fresh saliva-rich oorts (as a non-invasive sampling . . . → Read More: Orts or Oorts? see www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170530140735.htm Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org Steve Garnett and Les Christidis say “The assumption that species are fixed entities1 underpins every international agreement on biodiversity conservation, all national environmental legislation and the efforts of many individuals and organizations to safeguard plants and animals. Yet for a discipline aiming to impose order on the natural world, taxonomy (the classification of complex . . . → Read More: Taxonomical Anarchy Hampers Conservation (Are the allocas seed pods only called orts after they’ve been eaten from?) Main query– Yesterday I watched Red-browed Firetails systematically feeding in Glossy Black-Cockatoo Allocasuarinas. The finches lean towards the ort, delicately insert their beak, & remove themselves while eating. Does Hanzab list this as a foraging activity / food genus for this . . . → Read More: Orts. Firetails. Hanzab? Well out here on Lord Howe Island we have Lord Howe Woodhens and Buff Banded Rails as dominant tip chooks with the odd Purple Swamphen or Blackbird thrown in Hank Bower —–Original Message—– From: Birding-Aus [ To: Birding Aus < birding-aus@birding-aus.org> Subject: [Birding-Aus] How many species of dump chook are there in Australia? Message-ID: < . . . → Read More: How many species of dump chook are there in Australia? Birding-Aus Digest, Vol 44, Issue 1 |
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