In the photos in the Pizzey and Knight digital app one, listed as a Yellow-legged Flycatcher, labelled Adult. Lake Barrine. QLD. Peter Nunn has orange around the eye and looks very much like the Pale Yellow Robin. The other photos of the Yellow Legged Flycatcher do not show the . . . → Read More: Error in Pizzey and Knight app?
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Do Peregrines catch stationary prey? or is stooping on pigeons in flight their MO? Could this be like small passerines nesting near raptors, this being a “safe zone” somehow…? Judith ———- Re: ———-From: Bob & Trish Sothman <randtsothman@bigpond.com> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Peregrine Falcon questionTo: "birding-aus@birding-aus.org" <birding-aus@birding-aus.org>
A pair of Peregrine Falcons have resided . . . → Read More: Peregrine Falcon question Aaaah , Transparency is a wonderful thing. We need more of it, like who, or what agency, makes the final decision on the Rio Development? Michael Hunter Sent from my iPhone > On 24 Dec 2018, at 4:00 am, birding-aus-request@birding-aus.org wrote: > > Send Birding-Aus mailing list submissions to > birding-aus@birding-aus.org > > To . . . → Read More: Birding-Aus Digest, Vol 62, Issue 24 So Stephen Debus dismisses those who raise questions about endangered species research as "trolls and detractors on blogs and chatlines going off half-cocked". That comment speaks volumes about the author, and points to an arrogance among some in the scientific community that does little to advance discussion. Greg Roberts friarbird.roberts@gmail.com Blog: http://sunshinecoastbirds.blogspot.com.au/ Facebook: . . . → Read More: Red Goshawks caught and netted during nesting season I’m just forwarding this email response from Stephen Debus, on behalf of Shirley Cook, who had trouble sending it through to Birding-aus this morning.
Stephen Ambrose Ryde NSW
From: shirleycook <shirleycook@skymesh.com.au> Sent: 23 December 2018 6:04 AMTo: ‘Stephen Ambrose’ <stephen@ambecol.com.au>Subject: RE: [Birding-Aus] Red Goshawks caught and . . . → Read More: FW: Red Goshawks caught and netted during nesting season Hi, Does anybody out there know why magpies (sample photo attached on one caught at home) lie in the full sun on the hottest days in summer sometimes for 15 to 20 minutes. Some cooling mechanism? Any journal articles available?
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David in Blackheath . . . → Read More: Magpie behaviour No, I don't think the subspecies was determined. However, its accepted on the WA Museum's Checklist of the Birds of Western Australia with a note: "Mutilated bird found aboard a vessel at Barrow I. January 2018." Cheers, Nigel On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 1:45 PM James Mustafa <jamesmustafamusic@gmail.com> wrote: Really interesting stuff! . . . → Read More: Fwd: FW: Elegant Pitta AT Barrow Island Really interesting stuff! Nigel do we know what the Elegant subspecies was on the Pilbara boat? The IOC excel document have a note next to vigorsii (Double-striped Pitta Pitta vigorsii is a subspecies of Elegant Pitta P. elegans (Dickinson 2003)). vigorsii is also found in SW New Guinea. Best wishes, James Mustafa . . . → Read More: Fwd: FW: Elegant Pitta AT Barrow Island There was also a dead Elegant Pitta found on a ship at the start of this year off the Pilbara coast. Cheers, Nigel On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 1:11 PM Peter Shute <pshute@nuw.org.au> wrote: Just forwarding this to the list for Mike Carter. Replies to the list or to Mike, please. Peter . . . → Read More: Fwd: FW: Elegant Pitta AT Barrow Island Just forwarding this to the list for Mike Carter. Replies to the list or to Mike, please. Peter Shute ———- Forwarded message ———From: Mike Carter <pterodroma@bigpond.com>Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2018 at 2:39 pmSubject: FW: Elegant Pitta AT Barrow IslandTo: <birding-aus-owner@birding-aus.org> John Darnell advises that an Elegant Pitta arrived at Barrow Island on a . . . → Read More: Fwd: FW: Elegant Pitta AT Barrow Island |
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