For anybody who intends to check out the Orange Chats that have been observed at Jamberoo, near Kiama please remain on the bike/walking track and *DO NOT* trespass onto the farmers fields. One of our members caught a Birder from Sydney who was walking in the paddocks searching for the birds, the land on either . . . → Read More: Trespassing
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I shall be giving a presentation in town next Monday. The details are below. I don’t know what time I’ll be speaking yet. I’ll be talking about the Baby Dreaming Tourism Project and the sharing economy, what it could mean for Aboriginal people on outstations and the natural environment, and secondly, for the economy . . . → Read More: Tourism Opportunities that Support Threatened Species – presentation on the Baby Dreaming tourism project see www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2017/10/20/birds-might-be-evolving-to-eat-from-bird-feeders-study-says/ 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 Today I watched a prolonged chase of a Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (I believe – it was moving fast) by two Little Ravens, near Beach Rd boat ramp at Western Treatment Plant. We didn’t see the start, and we don’t know why this sandpiper was chosen from a huge number of waders in the area. The ravens . . . → Read More: Little Ravens chase and kill Sharp-tailed Sandpiper today at WTP Male and female feeding a very large and very loud fledgling. I thought it was a cuckoo at first. At least it survived the recent heavy but short lived showers in this Sydney inner-west location. Sent from my iPhone 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 → Read More: Superb Wren fledgling in recent months we have been witnessing what we believe is previously unrecorded/unpublished courtship behaviour by our resident Azure Kingfishers here at the Daintree River. as well as the usual wing spreading and wing shivering undertaken by the presumed male, we are seeing that it postures in such a way so that the buffy-white neck . . . → Read More: Azure Kingfisher courtship behavious for the past 7 days I have witnessed southward bound Spangled Drongos between Cairns and the Daintree River on migration. they are following the coastline. what is remarkable is the sheer numbers of birds involved. most are seen between 6am-9:30am, and every time I look skyward at theses times on the coast I see them. . . . → Read More: Wet Tropics migrant bird movements |
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