Corona Birdwatching

Dear fellow birdwatchers, Corona has changed our lives and we want to study its influence on birdwatching activities in different countries. Please help us and answer a few simple questions. The questionnaire is in seven different languages and takes 2 (two) minutes. The study is run by Piotr Tryjanowski (University of Poznan) and Christoph . . . → Read More: Corona Birdwatching

Birdpedia – Australia – Weekly Digest

The following is a digest of Sightings Reported on Birdpedia for the period Monday, April 13, 2020 to Sunday, April 19, 2020:

Area: SA

Location: On our Rockleigh property

Grey Shrike-thrush (Colluricincla harmonica) (2) This morning, when it was still cool, a pair of grey shrike-thrushes were on the dusty ground a metre apart doing . . . → Read More: Birdpedia – Australia – Weekly Digest

From Birding-Aus

​ ​Tromsø Easter–not really spring as yet             From everywhere in the northern half of the world come stories of spring, flowers and nesting birds. This time a year the differences with the situation here north are at a maximum, and this year maybe even more than usually. While . . . → Read More: From Birding-Aus

End of Swift season in OZ

G’day avid swift scanners

The flocks of WTNT I have been seeing in the hills NE of Melbourne have been reducing in size and becoming less frequent. I am aware of for the month of April; 2 sightings in Qld. 3 for NSW, 3 sightings in ACT, 7 for Vic. 1 for SA, and . . . → Read More: End of Swift season in OZ

From Birding-Aus

Greetings, fellow home-birders. Just now I'm reading a reprint of Heatherley's 1913 "Peregrine Falcon at the Eyrie" (also viewable at— https://archive.org/stream/cu31924084757206/cu31924084757206#page/n51/mode/1up ). Records by observers of this breeding pair report the tiercel as the main carer of the nest-young. (Odd & instructive characterisations of the falcon also appear, inconsistently, & in line with the confused . . . → Read More: From Birding-Aus

Fwd: “bold tassel hawk—” UK

Your message already came through yesterday. Maybe you have got no response and so you think it didn’t come through. Not everyone knows the word “tiercel” as meaning male, or the odd use of “falcon” as meaning female.

 

I think your question is very narrow and detailed, there would . . . → Read More: Fwd: “bold tassel hawk—” UK

Fwd: “bold tassel hawk—” UK

Trying this again…

———- Forwarded message ———-From: Jla <jlukin01@gmail.com>

Subject: "bold tassel hawk—" UK peregrinesTo: "birding-aus (E-mail)" <birding-aus@birding-aus.org>

Greetings, fellow home-birders. Just now I'm reading a reprint of Heatherley's 1913 "Peregrine Falcon at the Eyrie" (also viewable at— https://archive.org/stream/cu31924084757206/cu31924084757206#page/n51/mode/1up ). Records by observers of this breeding pair report the tiercel as the main carer of . . . → Read More: Fwd: “bold tassel hawk—” UK