It's all about the birds
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
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
*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
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 Box 3776, … Read more
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