Quail and Duck Hunting seasons in Victoria, post Bushfires

With a conservative estimate of more than ONE BILLION birds and animals killed by bushfire in South-eastern Australia, WHY do we need quail and duck hunting seasons this year? Please sign my petition, and for the greatest benefit, please share the link so that others can sign.

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Birding-Aus Digest, Vol 75, Issue 25

Was the Tasmanian Emu the same as the Mainland species. Or different as was the Kangaroo Island Emu?

Cheers. Michael

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How do Tasmanians feel about the possible return of emus?

see www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-28/researchers-study-poo-to-find-answers-on-tasmanian-emu/11886884

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Lyrebirds

Quite “remarkable”: ‘Remarkable’ behaviour: Experts stunned by photo of lyrebirds uniting under bushfire threat

‘Remarkable’ behaviour: Experts stunned by photo of lyrebirds uniting un…

A photograph of a flock of lyrebirds converging on waterhole as a bushfire approaches reveals something remarkable.

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Name calling

Tony,

You have to call out BS when you see it .

Common names should not obscure or obfuscate or even be cryptic, unlike Scientific names.

Otherwise how are you travelling? Grab what reality is left in this new age.

Best Wishes

Michael

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Birding-Aus Digest, Vol 75, Issue 23

Ah , so “Cryptic” is not so much descriptive of the bird itself, as say is “White-plumed Honeyeater” ??

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Using sentinel albatross to track illegal fishing boats

see www.nytimes.com/2020/01/27/science/albatross-ocean-radar.html

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“Death by Barbed Wire”

In reply to Greg Roberts’ email of 21 Jan “Death by barbed wire”:

 

“This subject was addressed in Andrew Ley’s paper “Bird casualties in fences in Diamantina National Park, Queensland, 1996-2008” published in Australian Field Ornithology in 2008.”

 

Shirley Cook

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Imitatress

Phil,

That “imitatress” could even be considered as a common name for any bird outside the Roman or Greek Republics indicates how out of touch with common birders committees can occasionally be. With any due respect, these committees sometimes seem to confuse themselves with Academia, and must secretly lust for Scientific standing.

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