Hello All Bird Conservationists: ‘Wings on King’ will be running surveys of shared sites on the 27-28th April, King Island, with orientation and group formation on the evening of Thursday 26th. This is an important project, monitoring the birds of King Island with repeated surveys over 50 Shared Sites with all data being entered into … Read more
A 1923 copy, 4th edition, of “Birds of Britain and their Eggs” by J L Bonhote, has come my way. I don’t want it as have no room for old bird book collections but if anyone else would like it, its going free apart from postage from King Island. It has 33 Illustrations including eggs … Read more
For those who follow Wim Vader – and there are lots. Someone from my Instagram feed who posts lots of amazing photos of the landscape around Tromsø might be of interest. www.instagram.com/terjenergard/ Cheers Lawrie — Dr. Lawrie Conole PO Box 155 Melton 3337 Australia lconole@gmail.com 0419-588-993 — Dr. Lawrie Conole PO Box 155 Melton 3337 … Read more
A juvenile Channel-billed Cuckoo has been photographed on King Island, Tasmania, over the weekend. A vagrant, but last recording of this species in Tasmania was in 1905 and isn’t clear whether it was a live bird sighting or a specimen possibly from somewhere else. Although it would be useful to have them here to help … Read more
Hi Paul & Ruth, It is a bit out of the way from Hamilton but the Hopuruahine River, beside the Waikaremoana Rd just before you get to Lake Waikaremoana is a good spot for Blue Duck. This is the only place I’ve seen Blue Duck while still in the car – usually it takes a … Read more