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Hi All, About 40 White-throated Needletails currently circling overhead in Ryde, heading generally in a SSE direction at an elevation of around 100 m. A major thunderstorm with heavy rain and light to moderate winds occurred overnight, heavy cloud cover. More heavy rain forecast for the next few days. Geographical Co-ordinates: 33 deg 49 min . . . → Read More: White-throated Needletails in Sydney, NSW Angus McNab (great name) says that much if not most research done for Environmental background studies is not made public or kept quiet for a very long time. Which begs the question; who then does decide whether the project goes ahead if the research does does show significant environmental damage, including effects on wildlife. . . . → Read More: Rio Raptor Research I’m spending a couple of weeks at Anglesea Vic. over the Christmas period and was wondering if there was any birds of interest about at the moment ? I’m coming down from Qld. tomorrow and was wondering is there anyone who could point me in the right direction ? . . . → Read More: Anglesea A moment to respond to some comments about this thread relating to this story: http://sunshinecoastbirds.blogspot.com/2018/12/endangered-red-goshawks-netted-and.html Angus says I am wrong to claim that the Queensland Government has handed over responsibility for the project to Rio Tinto. He might wish to explain this Queensland Environment and Science Department comment to me: "…this project is funded . . . → Read More: Red Goshawks caught and netted during nesting season G’day bird enthusiasts I just censused 8 WTNT over Blackburn South. They were feeding, and slowly moving to the NNW, so could be around Doncaster about now. Have a look and let me know if you see any – or put them in Birdata or eBird. They are rare over Melbourne these days and this . . . → Read More: White-throated Needletails in Melbourne Just a quick message An observation on the Nth Island is…there seems to be a LOT of Swamp Harrier in the countryside…more than I see in Australia…it’s like THE only Bird of prey I’ve seen so far…at least 4 just today..weird Also…is there any way of seeing Yellow-eyed penguin without doing a tour in Sth . . . → Read More: Nth Island birds You can be certain that if Rio Tinto is not transparent about its Red Goshawk intervention then they will be killing at least some of them. What could possibly induce the Queensland Government to hand this project to Rio Tinto itself rather than giving it to independent researchers.? Michael Sent from my iPhone Birding-Aus . . . → Read More: Red Goshawk research Hi all, I've just returned from a two week trip with Birding Tours Australia, led by the inimitable Richard Baxter. We had an awesome trip, with highlight species such as Chestnut-winged Cuckoo, Siberian Thrush and Blue Rock Thrush. For anyone that's interested, I've detailed our time on Cocos into a series of day reports. . . . → Read More: Cocos Keeling – Trip Reports Was (? Is) there an English birder who called in an owl which flew in and removed one of his eyeballs ? Michael 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 I am happy to stand corrected here and there are some real specialists in the field (Bilney, Mott, Olsen et al) but on the 20+pairs of POWLs in the Georges River studied for around five years and a couple in the southern tablelands and Illawarra, prey capture was by the feet. The talons . . . → Read More: Powerful Owls |
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