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At least 7 White-throated Needletails over Kedron (northern suburbs of Brisbane, near corner of Gympie and Rode Roads) at about 10:45 am this morning. BIrds seemed to be flying ahead of a small rainstorm – we've had a couple this morning. New addition to the Balcony List, but I've only been here a couple . . . → Read More: Needletails The following is a digest of Sightings Reported on Birdpedia for the period Monday, February 25, 2019 to Sunday, March 3, 2019: Area: SA Location: Gregory St Port Elliot Fork-tailed Swift (Apus pacificus) (6) Birds came over my house very high and heading East. Reported by: Winston Syson on Monday, February 25, 2019 ——————————————— Date: . . . → Read More: Birdpedia – Australia – Weekly Digest Really? HANZAB and field guide drawings match colour (or shade) for Common Diving Petrel as dark grey above and pale grey below. Not “black & white”, although at sea I guess they could look black & white. I have only ever seen Common Diving Petrel on one day and not recently but they . . . → Read More: Help please, seabird On evening 5/2/2019 I picked up a small seabird dead less than 24 hours but beginning to smell. Rubicon Estuary beach, Hawley Beach , just 10 km east of Devonport NW Tasmania . Weight 77g , damp but no fat at all, Wing length 160 mm and tail 60 mm bill length 27 m , . . . → Read More: Help please,seabird 4 over Hawley Beach , Tasmania, clear weather no fronts in the offing . 22/2/2019. Geoff Shannon Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org I have heard of a couple of recent records of Koel chicks being fed by Red Wattlebirds at Mallacoota. There is only one record (from Feb. 2017) of Koel breeding in East Gippsland on eBird so I ma getting the observers to submit reports. Martin Martin Butterfield http://franmart.blogspot.com.au/ . . . → Read More: Koel breeding Eaglehawk Pelagic Trip Report – January 6th, 2019
Participants: Ruth Brozek, Helen Cunningham, Sara Grealy, Rob Hamilton, Mona Loofs-Samorzewski, Andi Magnussen, Paul Newman, Peter Vaughan, Els Wakefield and Paul Brooks (organiser and report compiler) . . . → Read More: Eaglehawk Pelagic Trip Report, Jan 6th 2019 This is the fifth report demonstrating changes in the status and distribution of birds in South-East Queensland over 40 years between 1979 – when my booklet, The Birds of South-East Queensland, was published – and 2019. Some changes are doubtlessly influenced by an increased number of observers and technological advances (especially with playback) . . . → Read More: Changes in status of South-East Qld birds over 40 years It's odd that Rufous Scrub-bird has disappeared from Pt Lookout and other sites in New England National Park, NSW, which was formerly a stronghold. Olive Whistler remains common there. The reverse has happened in the Border Ranges region of NSW-Queensland: the whistler has largely disappeared while the scrub-bird is doing okay. A blog post . . . → Read More: rufous scrub-bird & olive whistler see cosmosmagazine.com/biology/rainfall-and-temperature-determine-a-colourful-plumage Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org |
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