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G’day folks I was staying at a cottage on a land for wildlife property close to Stanthorpe (on the Granite Belt) just north of the NSW border on the weekend. At around 9 pm on one evening I heard a rather different call which had a good match in the Masked Owl recordings on the . . . → Read More: Masked Owl Calls Dear Fellow Birders, Has anyone seen this book yet? www.lynxeds.com/product/all-the-birds-of-the-world/ It contains beautiful illustrations of every bird in the world including known extinct ones. I am not affiliated with this publisher or get anything from mentioning it, I just think this book looks so amazingly cool. It is only 65 euros… I already preordered my . . . → Read More: book “All the birds of the world” More news from Inner South Canberra. Yesterday Sandra Henderson reported Silver Gulls nesting in the open forecourt space in front of the national parliament. This was the scene early this morning (about 0730) with about a hundred of them in the plantings of prostrate grevillea, egg-sitting, site-selecting, squabbling and copulating. In recent years . . . → Read More: Very Australian Gulls 3 tail pix ATTACHED: – dorsal – notch (ventral), & showing blue wash – spread = 12 rectrices ———- Forwarded message ———From: Judith L-A <jlukin01@postoffice.csu.edu.au> Subject: Fwd: which hawk ?To: Judith L-A <jlukin01@postoffice.csu.edu.au> Thanks, guys. As you see, the various measurements fall between the 2 species, & I remain uncertain. The bird is in . . . → Read More: Fwd: which hawk ? 3x beak & headshots ATTACHED
———- Forwarded message ———From: Judith L-A <jlukin01@postoffice.csu.edu.au> Subject: Fwd: which hawk ?To: Judith L-A <jlukin01@postoffice.csu.edu.au> Thanks, guys. As you see, the various measurements fall between the 2 species, & I remain uncertain. The bird is in the fridge so I can still photograph it, & will . . . → Read More: Fwd: which hawk ? Down Under some of the Thornbill’s are a bother as are their cousins the Jerry Gone’s because they are small, hide in things, flit about without any consideration for people watching them and are similar looking (the birds not the people). I have a Buff-rumped Thornbill that I know because it had just been . . . → Read More: Thornbill’s R Trcky With ‘morning ball’ it is important not to pelt the ball into a tree containing a nesting magpie or butcherbird. However, the game late this morning (Rocky Knob Park, Narrabundah) was interrupted by a sound first taken to come from a heavy vehicle reversing at one of the nearby housing redevelopment projects in . . . → Read More: Sounds of South Canberra Greetings, all. Here are measurements for an Accipiter found dead yesterday on the back landing here, beneath a hard-sheltered water bowl frequented by local passerines. These measurements I’ve compared with the following refs (& their diagrams), reaching an uncertain conclusion— Menkhorst et al, 2017 Simpson & Day, 2004 Debus, 1998 Morcombe, 2000 * The bird’s . . . → Read More: which hawk ? Just what I did not need today was yet another reason to be upset…. this time due to a couple of idiot photographers, a man and woman in late middle age both sporting 300mm lenses or some such, and who had scaled a farm fence near the Curtain Fig at Yungaburra and were walking across . . . → Read More: Sarus Cranes being disturbed by toggers I have just finished writing a book on the birds of the Illawarra and I intend to self publish it. 440 species have been recorded within the Illawarra region and members of Illawarra Birders have supplied most of the photos needed for the book. I am still missing photos for 58 species which are . . . → Read More: Photos needed for book |
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