By Birding-Aus, on March 21st, 2019% Management plans to bring the Night Parrot back from the brink will need to be revamped and the birding community is set to be deeply divided after Australia's biggest private conservation group controversially dismissed a raft of records of the critically endangered bird claimed by north Queensland naturalist John Young.
More . . . → Read More: John Young and the Night Parrot
By Birding-Aus, on March 20th, 2019% The Arid Lands is a great spot for birds, native plants, ( including a small nursery ) plus cafe/coffee shop and giftshop. We always drop in en route to the North, nowadays usually for coffee.
Some years ago we found, among others, REDTHROAT there after dipping elsewhere, ELEGANT PARROT, and at the Northern end of . . . → Read More: Birding-Aus Digest, Vol 65, Issue 13
By Birding-Aus, on March 19th, 2019% Bill.
Here’s the ebird hotspot list for the above.
Cheers, Sue
ebird.org/hotspot/L923970
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By Bill Stent, on March 19th, 2019% Hi people, Bill here
I’m going to Lake Acraman (er, in South Australia) soon, and I’ll be driving through Port Augusta on about the 12th of April, and maybe staying the night there.
I’ve heard that there’s a good park there for birds: the Australian Arid Lands Botanic Gardens.
Can anyone tell me anything about . . . → Read More: Port Augusta Arid Lands Botanic Gardens
By Birding-Aus, on March 18th, 2019% I had the miserable experience of coming upon a Little Raven in the midst of killing and eating a very young Greylag gosling. So much yellow down strewn about on the ground, I mistook it for fur from a weird possum. Death by pecking; memorably horrid. The raven took it away to feed its . . . → Read More: Grey Butcherbird kills spotted dove
By Birding-Aus, on March 18th, 2019% Last summer a Grey Butcherbird bit off one leg of our Canary after squeezing in between the cage and it’s protective screen, then strangled trying to get out. The Canary kept singing after a week or two, adapted well and now hops and flaps around on one foot as if nothing had happened. Stopped . . . → Read More: Grey Butcherbird and Singing Canary
By Birding-Aus, on March 17th, 2019% The following is a digest of Sightings Reported on Birdpedia for the period Monday, March 18, 2019 to Sunday, March 24, 2019:
Area: SA
Location: On our Rockleigh property
Mistletoebird (Dicaeum hirundinaceum) (3) This is only the 3rd or 4th time we have seen a mistletoebird on our property over 10 years – last seen . . . → Read More: Birdpedia – Australia – Weekly Digest
By Birding-Aus, on March 17th, 2019% At about 7.15 yesterday evening I walked out my front door. A male Grey Butcherbird flew up from the drive and perched on the fence. I found it had been feeding on a Spotted Dove. The Dove’s head was missing and the breast had been eaten. The innards had been eaten out from inside . . . → Read More: Grey Butcherbird kills Spotted Dove
By Birding-Aus, on March 15th, 2019% A different sort of birder …
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By Birding-Aus, on March 15th, 2019% hi Mike, with the relatively cooler air predominating up here along the lowlands of the Cairns region since the 3rd week of Feb 2019, there has been a paucity of needletail and swift records. (this obviously excludes our local Aust Swiftlets). the reason I’ve also included this note onto Birding-Aus this time Mike is . . . → Read More: WTNT & Fork-tailed (Pacific) Swifts, FNQ
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