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Thanks to all the people who responded, I’ve got a photo I’m going to use from Greg McLaughlan Birding-Aus is a great resource, isn’t it? Bill On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 at 09:22, Bill Stent <billstent@gmail.com> wrote: Hi all, Bill here I’m preparing a Facebook post about how LBCs dig into . . . → Read More: Fw: Photo of a Long-billed Corella? Hi all, Bill here I’m preparing a Facebook post about how LBCs dig into hard packed dirt, and I discovered that I don’t have a photo of one at hand (I know I’ve taken some quite decent ones before but they’re … somewhere) Does anyone have a photo of a Long-billed Corella, preferably on the . . . → Read More: Photo of a Long-billed Corella? All that opinion is fair enough. The Jabiru is an interesting story. I think we all know it but here it is again. The point being that the Jabiru is one species of bird, only from South America. The name comes from a TupiGuaraní language and means “swollen neck”, a feature not shared with our . . . → Read More: Turkey Talk and Jabiru The beauty of the English language is its flexibility. If a word or name is commonly understood it can be used. Ornithology has it’s own Scientific Names which are only changeable through Scientific process and publication. These are generally accepted world-wide so readers know precisely which bird is referred to. (Pardon the grammar). Birdwatchers, in . . . → Read More: Turkey Talk G’day I’ve been coming across some odd holes in the bush tracks in my neighbourhood. They are about 30 cm across and 15 cm deep [not your average bandicoot or pig excavation]. I came across a female looking bush turkey sitting in a fresh hole, dug about 100 metres from the nearest active mound. It . . . → Read More: Turkey dust bathing At least 7 White-throated Needletails over Kedron (northern suburbs of Brisbane, near corner of Gympie and Rode Roads) at about 10:45 am this morning. BIrds seemed to be flying ahead of a small rainstorm – we've had a couple this morning. New addition to the Balcony List, but I've only been here a couple . . . → Read More: Needletails The following is a digest of Sightings Reported on Birdpedia for the period Monday, February 25, 2019 to Sunday, March 3, 2019: Area: SA Location: Gregory St Port Elliot Fork-tailed Swift (Apus pacificus) (6) Birds came over my house very high and heading East. Reported by: Winston Syson on Monday, February 25, 2019 ——————————————— Date: . . . → Read More: Birdpedia – Australia – Weekly Digest Really? HANZAB and field guide drawings match colour (or shade) for Common Diving Petrel as dark grey above and pale grey below. Not “black & white”, although at sea I guess they could look black & white. I have only ever seen Common Diving Petrel on one day and not recently but they . . . → Read More: Help please, seabird On evening 5/2/2019 I picked up a small seabird dead less than 24 hours but beginning to smell. Rubicon Estuary beach, Hawley Beach , just 10 km east of Devonport NW Tasmania . Weight 77g , damp but no fat at all, Wing length 160 mm and tail 60 mm bill length 27 m , . . . → Read More: Help please,seabird 4 over Hawley Beach , Tasmania, clear weather no fronts in the offing . 22/2/2019. Geoff Shannon 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 |
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