By Birding-Aus, on July 31st, 2020% Still plenty from Ceduna to Port Augusta in SA – even took a pic or 2 at Fowlers Bay. Always think I’m back in civilisation (a misnomer of course), when I see them coming back across the Nullabor!
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By Birding-Aus, on July 30th, 2020% Maybe Avian Coronavirus ?
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By Birding-Aus, on July 30th, 2020% Hi everyone,
Where have all the European Starlings gone. ? Once were thousands in Sydney, none. seen for a few years around Penrith, Springwood or elsewhere. Zero.
? Disease, Have I missed something ?
Their absence not a regret , just a mystery.
TIA
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By Birding-Aus, on July 29th, 2020% White-throated Needletail (Hirundapus caudacutus) Report for 2019/20 Season.
This season there were 4681 reports sent in, or published where I could find them. This is significantly more than last year, even after I have gone through and deleted the many duplicate reports that it appears to be fashionable to make! Unfortunately, . . . → Read More: WTNT Report for 2019/20
By Birding-Aus, on July 28th, 2020% Sydney Sea Eagles first chick has hatched at 9:03 this morning 40 days after lay. With delayed incubation we expect the second to hatch in a day or two. Live view at Sea-EagleCAM Live Video & Chat
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By Birding-Aus, on July 28th, 2020% Hi Wim, I live in BC, Canada. I have seen yellowlegs swimming. Off-hand I don’t recall whether they were Greater or Lesser, but I have seen the behaviour a number of times. I do recall that on at least one occasion it seemed to be just a way of getting from A to B . . . → Read More: border incidents: swimming shorebirds, the case of the Spotted Redshank
By Birding-Aus, on July 28th, 2020% Border incidents: swimming shorebirds; the case of the Spotted Redshank Shorebirds do what their name implies; they generally keep to the shore. There are a few exceptions our Pied Avocets swim well and often, and of course the phalaropes have taken this trend all the way: they obtain most of their food swimming in . . . → Read More: border incidents: swimming shorebirds, the case of the Spotted Redshank
By seashore, on July 27th, 2020% Amazing what you find when going through old photos… a banded Pacific Gull most likely photographed on the foreshore at Welshpool back in 2011. https://www.ararelitus.com/birds-1 And Pacific Gulls are one of my favourites and we have them as regulars along the southern beaches of Adelaide. Not in great numbers but causing along most days. Chris . . . → Read More: Banded Pacific Gulls
By Birding-Aus, on July 26th, 2020% All or most birds have forked tongues. The fork is at the rear of the elevated section of the tongue. Bird tongues have an arrowhead shape section sitting on a cylindrical base section. Having handled thousands of birds for banding the tongue looks like any other bird’s tongue to me or am I . . . → Read More: White-bellied Sea-eagle forked tongue
By Birding-Aus, on July 26th, 2020% Here in wilmington SA, the red wattlebirds seem to have it in for the weebills. In thinking about this I have some ideas: – food competition in terms of insects, although the hugely different size of the two birds makes me wonder if they are eating different insects. There is a report in HANZAAB . . . → Read More: why do red wattlebirds relentlessly chase weebills
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