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> 1. Fw: Brown Goshawks harrassing fruit bats – CentennialPark
> Sydney 2 April 2016 (Shirley Cook)
> 2. ADVERTISEMENT. Contemplating birding in the USA? (Maris Lauva)
> 3. Study finding that city birds are smarter than country birds
> (Laurie Knight)
> 4. SA birding to add to world-record of birds seen in a year
> globally (Peter Waanders)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 05:31:31 +1000
> From: “Shirley Cook” < shirleycook@skymesh.com.au>
> To: “Messages Birding-aus” < birding-aus@birding-aus.org>
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Fw: Brown Goshawks harrassing fruit bats –
> CentennialPark Sydney 2 April 2016
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> A comment from Steve Debus.
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> —– Original Message —–
> From: “Steve Debus” < sdebus@une.edu.au>
> To: “shirleycook” < shirleycook@skymesh.com.au>
> Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2016 6:56 AM
> Subject: RE: [Birding-Aus] Brown Goshawks harrassing fruit bats –
> CentennialPark Sydney 2 April 2016
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> Hi Shirley,
>
> The synchronised circling sounds like the typical autumn resurgence of
> pairing and courtship/territorial behaviour in many raptors. I don’t
> recall
> fruit bats in prey records for Brown Goshawks, but various large owls and
> raptors eat them (including Red Goshawks), so maybe a hungry female Brown
> Goshawk might try. Many raptors eat microbats, so it’s only a step up in
> size to a fruit bat.
>
> Goshawks will also harass other species in their breeding territory, so
> maybe the action was territorial if the goshawks were interested in a
> potential nest site in the trees.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Steve
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>
> —–Original Message—–
> From: shirleycook [ Duck Pond. They then proceeded to circle at just above treetop height over
> the bat colony at Lachlan Swamp and appeared to enter the trees several
> times. The bats were very agitated and flying around. The Goshawks looked
> like they were chasing the bats sometimes, but not every time they passed
> over the colony. Not sure whether they were hunting the bats, something
> else or just stirring things up. Would a Brown Goshawk eat a fruit bat?
> There were also 9 Cattle Egrets roosting on one of the islands at the Duck
> Pond.
> Cheers
> Tom Wilson
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> Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 03:42:38 +0000
> From: Maris Lauva < latvian_maris@hotmail.com>
> To: “birding-aus@birding-aus.org” < birding-aus@birding-aus.org>
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] ADVERTISEMENT. Contemplating birding in the
> USA?
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> I have “Atlas & Gazetteer” books (Similar to our roads and tracks but far
> more comprehensive) for 10 N/W USA states for $200. I also have a stack of
> brochures/maps/bird guides of national parks, reserves etc in the N/W of
> USA, including California, that I picked up along the way. They are free to
> anyone buying the Gazetteers. I’ll throw in the National Geographic “Field
> guide to the birds of North America”.
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> Whole lot weighs about 3Kg. I’m in WA & delivery cost would have to be
> yours as I’m now a poor pensioner 
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> Maris
> 040302 9051
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 17:11:23 +1000
> From: Laurie Knight < l.knight@optusnet.com.au>
> To: Birding Aus < birding-aus@birding-aus.org>
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Study finding that city birds are smarter than
> country birds
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> see www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160321154011.htm
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> (I would like to see this pattern replicated across more species in
> different regions before I would pay the mark)
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> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 18:20:00 +0930
> From: Peter Waanders < waanders.peter@gmail.com>
> To: Birding Aus < birding-aus@birding-aus.org>
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] SA birding to add to world-record of birds seen
> in a year globally
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> Hi all,
>
> I spent the Easter weekend birding with Arjan Dwarshuis, who is on a quest
> to break the world-record of birds seen in a year globally. In the context
> of a fundraiser for the Birdlife Preventing Extinctions Programme Arjan
> will try to see 7,000 species ? and he’s well on his way, having reached
> over 2,000 in the first 3 months of the year. You can follow his adventures
> here:
> www.arjandwarshuis.com/#biggestyear. But this is birding with a
> purpose: Arjan is trying to raise awareness of the world’s extinction
> crisis, and raising funds for Birdlife ‘Preventing Extinctions Programme’
> along the way. During his travels so far he’s seen plenty of saddening
> evidence of the ongoing destruction of the world’s ecosystems, placing our
> birds under enormous pressure – from the reclamation of mudflats in the
> Yellow Sea, to the almost total eradication of lowland rainforest in the
> Phillipines, to the ‘extinction by stealth’ of small ground-dwelling
> outback birds that is occurring in Australia right under our noses – it’s a
> depressing situation.
>
> Anyway back to our Easter trip. I picked Arjen up from Adelaide airport one
> evening and we drove straight to Gluepot reserve, arriving at midnight, and
> set up camp close to Gluepot in the middle of the mallee.
>
> We had breakfast in front of our tents while the unique birdlife that
> inhabits this mallee habitat woke up all around us. From high-pitched
> whistles of Southern Scrub-Robins to the deep booming of an Emum, birds
> were all around us. Birding was just awesome in the picture perfect
> conditions. One of the first birds was an Emu that rushed off as soon as it
> was on to us, White-browed Woodswallow, Hooded Robin, Crested Bellbird,
> Gilbert?s Whistler and Mulga Parrot were other nice finds, but the absolute
> highlight was a party of 4 Chestnut Quail-thrush, cracking birds that
> allowed point blank views as they blended in perfectly in their dry
> environment.
>
> After the morning run we went after one of the star birds of the mallee,
> the very rare Red-lored Whistler, which didn’t disappoint when I located a
> beautiful adult bird within half an hour. Next we looked for White-winged
> and Splendid Fairywren and White-browed Treecreeper, which we found after a
> bit of a run-around through the mallee.
>
> Now there was one bird remaining, the critically endangered Black-eared
> Miner. We drove across the sandy tracks of Gluepot in search of Miners, but
> despite trying and trying we had no success. As it was time to leave Arjen
> had dozed off in the passenger seat when suddenly a flock of Miners crossed
> the road. We chased after them and sure enough, there were at least 2 birds
> that met the current criteria of pure Black-eared Miners in the flock! High
> fives and off we went towards Murray Bridge. On our way we made 3 stops
> producing some more good species, the beautiful White-backed Swallow, the
> unpredictable Little Eagle and the elusive Australian Spotted Crake. What a
> fantastic taste of birding in South Australia!
>
> Once again we bush-camped and the next morning we chased after some last
> target birds, starting off with a smashing Australian Owlet-Nightjar right
> at the crack of dawn, followed by a distant Tawny-crowned Honeyeater and
> finally another one of Arjen’s most wanted species, the Diamond Firetail.
> These cracking little birds put on a fantastic performance.
>
> I dropped Arjen back at the airport shortly after 10am in time for his
> flight to New Zealand.
>
> (Adapted from
> www.dutchbirding.nl/arjansbiggestyear/1204/march_25_-_31)
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>
> Regards,
>
> Peter
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