G’day
Interesting feature on Yellow-faced Honeyeaters was just featured on Radio national Breakfast including comments from Henry Nix and Coral Probets. Hopefully, it should be available for download soon from http://www.abc.net.au/rn/.
Paul
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Thanks Paul. It’s good that stories like this make it into the mainstream news media, especially when it was put together quite well.
However, I was a little disappointed that there was no reference in the story to the research that has been conducted by Ursula Munro et al. (University of Technology, Sydney) on the migratory compass of the Yellow-faced Honeyeater. Links to a couple of their papers are shown below:
Munro, U. & Wiltshko, W. (1993). Magnetic compass orientation in the Yellow-faced Honeyeater (Lichenostomus chrysops), a migrating bird from Australia. Behavioural Ecology & Sociobiology. 32: 141-145. http://www.jstor.org/pss/4600796.
Munro, U., Wiltshko, W. & Ford, H.A. (1993). Changes in the migratory direction of Yellow-faced Honeyeaters Lichenostomus chrysops (Meliphagidae) during autumn migration. Emu. 93: 59-62. http://www.publish.csiro.au/?act=view_file&file_id=MU9930059.pdf
Kind regards, Stephen
Stephen Ambrose Ryde, NSW