Month: May 2018

Flock Bronzewings

Sorry  for the delay in getting this info on to birding-aus but have
been in and out of phone range and no wifi.  On 18 May travelling north
from Birdsville I saw two flocks of Flock Bronzewings flying south to
the east of the road about 10 km south of Bedourie.  I observed them
through my binoculars from about 400 metres away.  There were in excess
of 300 birds in the first group followed a few minutes later by a
smaller group of about 100.

Cheers  Roy

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Glossy Black cockatoo

For those interested and live in the Kingscliff NSW area
On Saturday afternoon…there were 4-5 Glossy black Cockatoos on a quiet side road, drinking out of a puddle
They were there in the Sheoakes at about 4:30pm on an overcast day
There had been a little rain that day

Cars would drive up to them slowly and be right in front of their face, and they wouldn’t move…just kept drinking from the shallow puddle on the bitumen road and puddles in little side parking areas off the bitumen on dirt ground …thirsty indeed.

Head to Cudgen Creek picnic area in Kingscliff
Cross over to south side of the bridge and take first left after bridge that runs along the edge of the water
Go along there a bit and they may be in the sheokes
Couldn’t believe how ‘tame’ they were and definately not a common species that I’ve noticed.

Cheers
Kirri 👍🏻
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Common Myna not in Adelaide

We have just spent a week in Adelaide and I was surprised not to see a
single Common Myna. Looking at eBird it seems they haven’t made it across
the Mallee. Is this just because they don’t like the mallee habitat or is
there some other reason?

Martin Butterfield
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Grey-crowned Babblers killing other birds’ young

A friend told me that other day that he had seen this species killing the young of other birds. Have any Birding Aussers witnessed this?

Thanks

Denise

Denise Lawungkurr Goodfellow Ph.D.
PO Box 71
Darwin River, NT, Australia 0841
043 8650 835

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