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The following is a digest of Sightings Reported on Birdpedia for the period Monday, October 26, 2020 to Sunday, November 1, 2020: Area: SA Location: On our Rockleigh property Rainbow Bee-eater (Merops ornatus) (5) We have been hearing bee-eaters for weeks, but never managed to see them. I was doing my last Backyard Bird Count . . . → Read More: Birdpedia – Australia – Weekly Digest Maybe the Magpies are just sunbaking for the pleasure of it . Sent from my iPhone > On 25 Oct 2020, at 3:00 am, birding-aus-request@birding-aus.org wrote: > > Send Birding-Aus mailing list submissions to > birding-aus@birding-aus.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org > or, via email, send . . . → Read More: Birding-Aus Digest, Vol 84, Issue 19 Dear Fellow birders, So, I am starting to produce videos on nature and birding. I made a short one on Carleton University — it’s a University campus in Ottawa, Canada: I feature a few birds with some video. This is my first attempt at a ‘nature documentary’ and I’m still acquiring some gear that . . . → Read More: short video on some Canadian birds What I sent last night appears to have not gone through yet. Maybe best just to call it sunning when that is what it is and leave the word anting to when there are ants. Easy. But they may be connected. This sunning behaviour (and certainly not just magpies) often has the birds . . . → Read More: Australian Magpie “anting” or what? For years I’ve been watching magpies in Blackheath, regardless of the temperature, mild or red-hot, lying down in a sort of trance-like state. But they are alert. Someone somewhere mentioned that they are “anting”. Any published papers and evidence available on what they are actually doing?
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. . . → Read More: Australian Magpie “anting”or what? The following is a digest of Sightings Reported on Birdpedia for the period Monday, October 19, 2020 to Sunday, October 25, 2020: Area: SA Location: Barrage Goolwa Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos) (1) single bird in water dept land behind barrage Curlew Sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea) (60) birds were feeding with other shorebirds near the second pull . . . → Read More: Birdpedia – Australia – Weekly Digest Hi all, A friend of mine just told me the following occurred on Castle Cove Golf Course in Sydney: “Walking on golf course. Thought they were mating but one bird had the other by the neck and was slamming it on the ground (like they kill snakes) took 10 mins for the victim to . . . → Read More: Killer kookaburra (NSW) |
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