It's all about the birds
Rain is falling at Gluepot and that is welcome… unless you happen to be a Butcherbird… https://www.ararelitus.com/blog/welcome-rain-at-gluepot-reserve Regards Chris Shaw seashore@internode.on.net+61 409 675912www.ararelitus.comAfter the game, the King and the Pawn go into the same box. – Italian proverb
'Sorry, can't help with your Melbourne list, but I'm locked down in Sydney and have a suggestion if you get extended. I've been working on my COVID cold cases from old photo ID problems. I won't go into the ethics of ticking from a photo but will say I've added 3-4 ticks since the Sydney … Read more
I've been attempting to add a new species every day this year and the latest Melbourne 5 Km lockdown is proving a challenge. I'm based in Prahran so limited to roughly from Royal Botanic Gardens to Elwood. Laughing Kookaburra and Silvereye are my last realistic options. I would then still need 4 more to get me to … Read more
Re Peewees. Lockdown research indicates that large flocks of Magpie larks seasonally migrate to the North of Australia and back, probably accounting for the Townsville mangrove mob. But not for the Bellarine Peninsula nighttime roost. Doesn’t seem to be like the grouping of single young male Magpies but a real group behavioural trait. Presumably doesn’t … Read more
Just found this tucked away in the section about new books on Birdforum, from Harrison’s new Seabirds Guide (Lynx), quite amazing news: From satellite tracking data of 14 individuals of the critically endangered seabird from Reunion, it was found to be dispersing in the Arabian Sea to NW Australia (Saunier et al 2021) and the … Read more