Digiscoping and Night Parrots

Happy New Birding Year!

We would like to thank all our readers for support in 2010. Bird-O officially launched on 12 Jan and up to 31 Dec 2010, we’d received over 6,000 readers, including over 5,000 Australians. With information on rarities, identification and heaps of glossy reports about birds on Aussiebirding, the site has grown to over 2,000 visits a month and for that, we have to thank our growing list of authors – at last count, 16 people had written for us, with nearly 200 articles in all. In the coming weeks, there’ll be more on subjects like plastic pollution in seabirds and a review of the new Morecambe iPhone app. Let’s hope 2011 is as fruitful as 2010.

There’s been quite a bit of recent discussion about DIGISCOPING and a new article has just appeared on Bird-O about this http://bird-o.com; If you haven’t already read about Night Parrots, take a look at Steve Murphy’s great article about the work he’s been doing – fascinating stuff! OrPeruse Richard Baxter’s report about Cocos (currently the most read report on the Bird-O wildiaries pages) http://birdo.wildiaries.com/trips/10396. Don’t forget, you can receive a monthly update about Bird-O articles to your inbox by leaving your email in the green box that says “Newsletter” or …

You can follow us on TWITTER. Twitter’s the biggest thing since Facebook and birders all over the world are taking it up…it’s even named for us…surely that has to be a good omen! Join Twitter and you can even update your friends INSTANTLY about rarities from your mobile phone, by just including @birdorarity anywhere in the tweet. You can even follow our Aussie birdlines list at http://twitter.com/#!/birdodotcom/aussie-birdlines – receive birding-aus, birdlines and other rarity updates without anything ever reaching your email inbox.

If 2011 is anywhere near as exciting as 2010, we’ll be working twice as hard to bring you the fun side of birding!

All the best,

The Bird-O team.

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