By Birding-Aus, on September 18th, 2020% First channel-billed cuckoo of the season at Pittsworth on September 17th, earlier than usual. Alastair
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By Birding-Aus, on September 17th, 2020% Had my first sighting of the season at Guanaba on the Gokd Coast. Two birds being harassed by Magpies.
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By Birding-Aus, on September 11th, 2020% Hi All,
Willem Vader’s post is so interesting. Arctic birds and Polar Bears have been on our bucket list for years, maybe William’s daughter Anna with her rifle could guide us, Spitsbergen Safari style. Probably Polar Bears would be safer seen from the deck of a ship.
Is Anna available Willem, and is she a . . . → Read More: Birding-Aus Digest, Vol 83, Issue 6
By Birding-Aus, on September 10th, 2020% FAMILY DAYS AT 78*N
For the last 5 days, I have been in Longyearbyen, the ‘capital of Spitsbergen’, where my elder grandson—my daughter and family have lived there already in 10 years— celebrated his ‘confirmation’, a ceremony in church which is a very important thing and a sort of coming . . . → Read More: family days at 78*N
By Birding-Aus, on September 10th, 2020% John,
Sure they usually nest in Eucalypts but they don’t choose particularly well shaded or hidden sites within those trees either. Another case of note, also in Canberra, about 25 years ago, when some of the buildings in Woden town centre were being rebuilt, along the walkway between the main . . . → Read More: Magpie Lark nesting in deciduous tree
By Birding-Aus, on September 10th, 2020% Here in suburban Canberra we have Magpie Larks nesting in a deciduous tree in our backyard. The nest is nearing completion, but at the moment the tree has not yet put out leaves (probably will have done so in a couple of weeks). In previous years they (or other ML pairs) have nested in tall . . . → Read More: Magpie Lark nesting in deciduous tree
By Birding-Aus, on September 9th, 2020% Hi all, An organisation that I have an association with called Big Scrub Landcare (https://www.bigscrubrainforest.org/) is looking for some photos of birds and any other fauna that were taken in the Byron Bay region in NSW, preferably in areas of remnant Big Scrub (which is the critically endangered sub-tropical lowland rainforest in the region). They . . . → Read More: Photo request and event info (Big Scrub, northern NSW)
By Birding-Aus, on September 9th, 2020% Dear Fellow Birders,
I was hoping someone with really good audio bird ID abilities could help me ID a bird that my friend recorded in Melbourne in Clifton Hill along the Merri creek (it is near the Yarra Bend Park, not far from the CBD). Here is about a minute of recording:
jpolak.org/tmp/unknownbirdsound.mp3
He hears . . . → Read More: Melbourne mystery sound
By Birding-Aus, on September 8th, 2020% Hi all,
The Channel-bills and Curlews have arrived in Como (Woronora River, southern Sydney) within 48 hours of each other.
Paul.
By Birding-Aus, on September 3rd, 2020% “New research shows lyrebirds move more litter and soil than any other digging animal” see phys.org/news/2020-09-lyrebirds-litter-soil-animal.html
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