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Yesterday the Season’s first Koel called as if in error or warning – just a part-phrase then silence. Most likely in passing, as they’re often late setting-up here. Judith SEQ 500m 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 Hi All I’ll have a short holiday with the grandkids at Rainbow Beach QLD next week. I’m on the look out for those blasted Black-breasted Button-quails who seem to go on holiday when I’m able to get up there. If anyone has any recent reliable sightings from Inskip Point or nearby, I’d appreciate it. Also . . . → Read More: Rainbow Beach region birds See: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170920144653.htm “Fly away home? Ice age may have clipped bird migration Study challenges traditional presumptions of migratory behaviour” The question is whether migratory species can become sedentary due to other pressures. 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 . . . → Read More: Ice ages may have caused some species to cease their seasonal migrations Hi all, I’m going to be in Japan for a week on a cycling holiday and was wondering if anyone has recommendations for bird guides? (I mean a book, not a person..) I’ll be with non-birders and there will be little time dedicated to birding, but want to be able to id the incidentals. Obviously, . . . → Read More: Japan bird book The first Koel, in Gorokan* did call today, He’s been at it since before sun-up, I wish he would go away. *NSW Central. Coast 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 Can anybody help with the request below please or direct Thierry to a helpful source. His email address is Thierry LENGAGNE thierry.lengagne@orange.fr Thanks Doug Herrinhton Dear Doug, Coming from France, I met you one year ago in Australia and we help me to discover Australian birds! It was a wonderful experience for me and . . . → Read More: noisy miner compare sound structure of territorial calls versus mobbing calls Tens of thousands of blackbirds killed by usutuvirus in The Netherlands. This is the second year that the mosquito-born virus has done damage. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2017/09/12/tienduizenden-merels-dood-door-usutuvirus-12971554-a1573217 Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. 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 Does anyone living in the Melbourne area have some 8.5×42 Swarovski binoculars I can look through. I am thinking of buying some, but there are none available in Melbourne. Thank you Elizabeth Lloyd. Sent from my iPad Elizabeth ? 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 . . . → Read More: Swarovski 8.5×42 binoculars. Hi All. We have had some good sightings in our part of Mulgoa Valley over the last week. Best was a juvenile BAILLON’S CRAKE among the reeds on a dam, new for my local list. A circling SWAMP HARRIER, with Brown Goshawk close by and a Nankeen Kestrel, CRESTED SHRIKE-TIT, AZURE KINGFISHER . . . → Read More: Spring in Mulgoa Valley First ones in Yungaburra for the year heard last Monday morning. We usually have our first about a week after Sydney. The PNG birds are slow starters. Had a female riflebird in the yard for the first time in many years. We are about a kilometre from rainforest. Regards, Alan On 18/09/2017 8:31 AM, Stephen . . . → Read More: Channel-billed Cuckoos calling, Riflebird in the yard |
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